Mt. Vernon, New York........Global Lighting is proud to present the Paraaf designed by Jacco Maris. Created by hand from a single strip of stainless steel, the light is bent and folded to replicate the intricate pleats of the 16th century collars worn by European aristocracy. This suspension light is an extension of the Maris signature style, the manipulation of metal into soft and languid forms. Inspired by the rich culture of the Netherlands, Maris was intrigued by the ruff collars that …
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New Ravenna in Elle Indonesia
New Ravenna has been featured in Elle Indonesia, the magazine's editors including Paul Schatz's Miraflores collection in their bathroom highlights. The nod by this international magazine proves how far afield the appeal of the company's tiles travels. Included in the tile roundup is the Medina pattern created for backsplashes. It is a handmade mosaic that is shown below in polished Ming Green and Carrara and honed Thassos; it is one of the designs in the Miraflores Collection by Paul Schatz, …
New Ravenna Mosaics Presents Look Book Fall 2013
New Ravenna Mosaics Look Book Fall 2013 (Exmore, Virginia).......New Ravenna Mosaics is proud to present their Fall 2013 Look Book, a visual gallery of brilliant reflective mosaics in jewel glass and natural stone. The luxurious mosaics are all created in the New Ravenna Mosaics studio located in Exmore, Virginia. A team of 120 artisans and designers create each mosaic by hand one tessera (piece) at a time. New Ravenna Mosaics was started 21 years ago by Sara Baldwin on her kitchen …
Clé in Architectural Digest Russia
Clé tiles have been featured in this lively roundup in Architectural Digest Russia. The collection featured is Ruan Hoffman's Postcards From Myself. View the Full Article PDF Postcards From Myself consists of 25 designs, each hand lithographed on an 8" square encaustic cement tile. Hoffmann is an internationally exhibited painter who uses ceramic as his canvas. This is his second tile collection for clé, though first in the historic tradition of using multiples of four tiles to complete each …
The Measure of a Man, Carlo Scarpa by Robert McCarter
In Robert McCarter’s Carlo Scarpa monograph Austrian architect Peter Noever tells an illuminating tale. In 1974 he and Scarpa visited the Adolf Loos-designed American Bar in Vienna. The moment they entered Scarpa started appraising the space. He ordered champagne for the ladies...... who were present and a measuring tape for himself. Scarpa then proceeded to measure everything down to the exact millimeter. When finished he proclaimed the space to be of "singular spiritual and emotional …