"Holland is a great. inspiring country to design in," according to lighting designer Jacco Maris, who is featured in Hospitality Design magazine. Open, free-minded people who are not afraid to give their honest opinion make sure the quality stays high, and every inch of Holland has been designed to fit both the functionality of beauty and space limitations. Also, our history of great artists and architects has given us a rcsponsibility to create new icons; it's in our DNA, so to speak. Read …
Jacco Maris for Global Lighting in Interiors & Sources
Jacco Maris Featured in Interiors & Sources Interiors & Sources talks with designer Jacco Maris, distributed in the US through Global Lighting, and teases out answers to questions like: Describe the secret to your success. Our power is in our paradox; we are hard materials that curve like ribbons. Our form can be turbulent but our light is serene. View the full PDF The essential, basic aspects of your home such as windows and lights are the most important thing when it comes to …
New Ravenna Mosaics Introduces the Delft Collection
(Exmore, Virginia)........New Ravenna Mosaics is proud to introduce the new Delft Collection in a blue and white palette of jewel glass. Dutch Deltfware was inspired by Chinese porcelain which was brought to the Netherlands by the United Dutch East India Company in 1620. Emulating the crisp and vibrant color combinations, the Dutch potters covered their earthenware pottery in a white tin glaze and used a cobalt, a metal oxide pigment, to add decorative motifs of daily …
Global Lighting Presents Jacco Maris Designs in Delft
Mt. Vernon, New York........Dutch designer Jacco Maris has collaborated with artists Frank De Wit and Ben Quaedvl to create a Delft version of his stainless steel Montone chandelier. The artists hand paint traditional Delft patterns on the strips of metal which have been powdercoated in white. The entire light is created by hand in the Jacco Maris studio located in Breda, the Netherlands. The Montone chandelier is available in oval, round and triangular shapes. It is the triangular shape that …
Shades of Abundance: Handmade Tile and Mosaic
The color green is often considered a harbinger of spring and renewal. It is in abundance in this new collection. Victoria Redshaw, managing director of Scarlet Opus, the British trend forecasting agency, offers her distinctive opinion. "Absinthe Emerald is the perfect shade of green for 2013. The color summons up a secretive mood and a dark, languid atmosphere. There is a slightly risqué undertone which draws us into the seductive darkness to reveal opulence and charm in equal measure. This …