STYLE NV - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PIERRO FORNASETTI

A big fat HAPPY BIRTHDAY to PIERO FORNASETTI, who would have been 97 years old today.




In terms of variety of decoration, Fornasetti’s production of objects and furniture is one of the largest of the 20th century. Fornasetti is celebrated as being among the most original creative talents of the twentieth century. During his career he cdesigned a magical world, filled with wit, that is instantly recognisable and unceasingly engaging.



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STYLE NV RAVE - Rothschild & Bickers Lights

Like giant boiled sweets hanging from the ceiling, Rothschild & Bickers hand blown glass lights look almost edible. Design partners, Victoria Rothschild and Mark Bickers give traditional techniques and design a contemporary twist. The shapes of the lights are traditional but the use of coloured glass, silk tassles and their small size, keeps them modern.




See some of their latest work at Nandos in Glasshouse Street and Ted Baker in Westfield, London.



Tasty treats!
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STYLE NV Rave - Virtually Inspired

You know that lovely house proud kinda feeling you get from throwing tablecloth over a table? You know, ‘rain drops on roses’ is playing in your head and whoosh the tablecloth is up in the air and gently, it falls down. No? Well Daniel O’Riordan from Orchard Studio does and he was inspired by this to create his beautiful cloth pendants.

Homes that STYLE NV Love - Vanessa Battaglia & Brendan Young of Studiomold

Take one small and neglected terrace cottage in Cambridgeshire, add a design couple. Wait for a few hellish months and the result is this small, but perfectly formed house full to the brim with delicious ideas and hidden treasures. If this house was a cake, it would be a rich, tasty Christmas pudding, topped with brandy butter, a holly leaf and stuffed with coppers and buttons.

STYLE NV CHATTING WITH - Jason McDonald

What could be more suitable on Halloween than chatting with Jason McDonald from Koff, the designer of the skull candle? His skull candles are a fantastic design celebrating life, death and the beauty of the human skull. We caught up with him to talk about his work.http://www.stylenv.co.uk/blogs/blogEntry.cfm?b=36

STYLE NV Wishes Happy Birthday to David Weeks

Happy Birthday to American desginer, David Weeks! David is known for his lighting and furniture products.




He was born today, October 30th 1968, in Athens, Georgia. He studied painting and sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned a BFA. Weeks went on to work in the Manhattan studio of Ted Muehling before founding the David Weeks Studio in 1996. The Studio produces lighting and furniture for commercial and residential uses. The Studio’s recent product lines include Sculpt, an upholstered collection, and Sarus, a lighting collection for Ralph Pucci; updated Semana chairs for Habitat UK; and new consumer products for Areaware and Kikkerland.The Studio also creates custom lighting, furniture, sculpture, and interiors. Commissioned projects include Barneys New York, Kate Spade, Saks Fifth Avenue, MGM Grand Las Vegas, Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, and Bliss Spa. Weeks has also been an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design, and was a visiting critic in 2002 at Yale.



David won Editor Awards at the 1999 and 2001 International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Butter's debut collection earned accolades including an award from Blueprint at 100% Design Show, and featured his best-selling Lunette lampshade. David lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Georgianna Stout, partner of design studio 2x4, and their children.




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STYLE NV - TRENDS: Spinning Tinned Peaches

There are only so many colours. So when one comes back into fashion, they need to be given a bit of a spin. While we have been happy dressing in flesh, putty and nude tones, for quite a few seasons now, when it comes to an interior trend, are you ready to bare all?

On the surface it seems that 80s pastel peach is back, but don’t despair this isn’t sickly tinned peaches in syrup, this is soft, just been picked peaches (I sound like a M&S advert). Imagine a hot sunny day in the meditaranean, sunbathing naked on a beach and gorging on a crate of lovely juicy peaches (mmm)! http://www.stylenv.co.uk/blogs/blogEntry.cfm?b=34

STYLE NV Rant - Moaning about Musac

This is going out to any event producers, shop owners, TV producers, anyone who anything to do with choosing background music or Musac, as it is more commonly known, to recreate interior, lifestyle environments. I’m speaking on behalf of many people when I say

STOP USING SUCH TOSH, WE HATE IT !!!!
The term for elevator music shouldn’t be Musac, it should be Musak a merging of the two words Music and Kak, because is that is way more apt.
This inane, dull, annoying, music, that’s supposed to chill me out, calm me down does nothing of the kind. IT DRIVES ME UP THE BLOODY WALL. It drives me up the wall and usually out of the room or shop, or show, which I’m guessing is not the general idea. It certainly doesn’t make me want to part with any of my hard earned cash.
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STYLE NV Rave - Gypsy Chic A+Z Design

Hungarian based studio, A+Z Designers launched their new collection at Tent last month, inspired by gypsy culture with a modern twist and using traditional materials and methods. .

There is bright red low table with built in burner and pendant lights that look like upturned enamelled buckets . Possibly my favourite piece is the Boden wine cooler with interchangeable tapestry seats, so that the wine cooler can also be used as a stool.
The table and stools are perfect for those who fancy glamping next year in the festival season, or if you have a little summer house at the bottom of the garden. The lights would be great as informal kitchen dining table lights.

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STYLE NV CHATTING WITH - Michaela Fitzgerald

Flamingoes on the ceiling and distorted bathroom mirrors? Sounds like right up our street, STYLE NV caught up with bar and restaurant interior designer, Michaela Reysenn from Kai Desgin to talk about her work. http://www.stylenv.co.uk/blogs/blogEntry.cfm?b=31