Homegoods SteinArea HomegoodsRowley Accent ChairsRowley ChairsCynthia Rowley AccentRowley OfficeMarshalls HomegoodsSpare OfficeRoom SearchForwardI found four of these gray chairs in Portland area HomeGoods and Marshall's stores. Plus a matching ottoman. It was one of the most commercial and appealing collections yet from a designer who simply can't sit still. Marc Jacobs' feisty, fun fall collection was inspired by early hip-hop here with a soupcon of Seventies sportif. WWD is moving ahead on the digital front with the expansion of the Digital Daily product. ALL IN GOOD FUN: With its new Lernert & Sander film, COS seems to be simultaneously parodying how essential seating is for this season’s holiday get-togethers and poking fun at fashion designers’ ongoing game of musical chairs. But those six designers vying for five highly designed seats in “COS x Musical Chairs” weren’t found in a casting call. As visitors to COS’ site can learn, the competitors also created the contemporary furniture they are vying for.
In what appears to be an international effort, the H&M-owned chain recruited Canadian designer Philippe Malouin, Dutch-born Marjan van Aubel, Denmark-based Hay cofounder Mette Hay, German product designer Tino Seubert, British furniture designer Lucy Kurrein and Seungji Mun, whose Mun studio is based in Seoul and Copenhagen. Each wears items from the COS party collection and plays the game to music provided by a COS-dressed four-piece band. The artists and filmmakers known simply as Lernert & Sander certainly know how to work the fashion crowd, having provided a bevy of creative services for such companies as Kenzo, Hermès, Brioni, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Colette, Nowness, Viktor & Rolf, L’Oréal and Wieden & Kennedy among others. Reached in their Amsterdam studio Thursday, the duo didn’t have time to spare since they were the subject of a photo shoot. They have created high-conceptual art films, installations and other fashion projects together for the past nine years. By the end of COS’ unexpected short film, Hay and van Aubel (the force behind the solar power studio Caventou) are the last two in the running for The Soft Edge Chair designed by Iskos-Berlin for Hay.
Online shoppers who are intrigued by the other modern chairs the half-dozen designers race around can find all the details as well as the designers’ philosophies and inspiration resources. Mette, for examples, notes, “My suitcase is always filled with small objects from my travels, which could be anything from a napkin at a restaurant to a ceramic cup or a bar of soap.” While the COS x Musical Chairs project has a highly informative component, the retailer isn’t the first to use the game as a marketing tool. In the is-anything-truly-new world of fashion, created a 60-second video of models playing musical chairs and wearing looks from her collection for New York City’s Taxi TV in the fall of 2009. But maybe COS and Lernert & Sander are referencing the game’s metaphorical political meaning where one leader replaces another, a very popular trend this holiday season.
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Note the graceful sweep of the chair back and perfectly pitched upholstered seat.
Estimated shipping date 5/1/2017 Welcome to the new Safavieh! Enjoy and Happy Shopping! Join our Mailing List to hear about events, sales, and promotions and to receive a $50 couponHGTV’s Joanna and Chip Gaines were among the stars of the High Point Market last week. Joanna helped introduce her new line of signature furniture, Magnolia Home, produced in partnership with Standard Furniture. Joanna and Chip brought those cute kids along, too.Jackie Hirschhaut, a vice president of the American Home Furnishings Alliance in High Point, joked that she stood outside the showroom building and answered questions from throngs of visitors about how to find the Magnolia Home display. “I explained, ‘You go in this door, you go up...,’” she said with a laugh.Standard’s Richard Louise said traffic in the Alabama company’s showrooms was up 80 percent (impressive – and hints that Hirschhaut might not have been exaggerating by much).More importantly, the new furniture was a hit with retailers, and the reception it and other new introductions received helped add to the upbeat vibe at the huge, twice-a-year international market.
Collections by fashion and lifestyle designers Kate Spade and Cynthia Rowley also drew crowds, Hirschhaut said.The wholesale market attracts 75,000 visitors to more than 11 million square feet of display space. Designs introduced at the fall show start hitting retail showrooms in the spring – or sooner – so you can look for them at a store near you.Here’s a peek at the three new collections. Magnolia Home captures the eclectic, mix-and-match look that Joanna Gaines creates on the popular HGTV show, “Fixer Upper.” Louise, Standard’s vice president of marketing, called it “farmhouse meets boho.” French-inspired bedroom pieces for girls feature curved drawer fronts, slender legs and petite hardware. They’re available in gray, blue and vintage white. (With Joanna’s favorite distressed finishes, of course.) Upholstered beds have flax colored fabric panels and fluted posts.The line features about 350 items in bedroom, dining, occasional, office and upholstery. Styles or “genres” include primitive, industrial and farm, as well as French.
Dining pieces include zinc-top tables and a kitchen island in vintage paint.Photography of the new pieces isn’t quite complete, Louise said, but pictures should be available online in mid-November. The Kate Spade line was introduced by E.J. Victor, the Morganton company that also offers a Ralph Lauren collection. The 34-piece line includes bedroom, dining room and occasional furniture, in upholstery and casegoods. Kate Spade fans will recognize the design influence, Hirschhaut said, as popular fashion meets furniture.The line has been pre-ordered and is expected to hit retail showrooms in November, E.J. Victor executives said. The upholstery is made in North Carolina, while the case goods are produced overseas. , .Contemporary designer Cynthia Rowley’s signature collection is from Hooker Furniture, and Hooker’s upholstery arm Sam Moore Furniture. It includes 100 casegoods pieces from Hooker – bedroom, dining, living room and accent furniture – and more than 40 upholstery pieces by Sam Moore.