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 …
New Ravenna Mosaics Introduces the Miraflores Collection by Paul Schatz
(Exmore, Virginia)........New Ravenna Mosaics is proud to introduce the Miraflores Collection by Paul Schatz. The collection of eighteen mosaic designs was inspired by award winning interior designer Paul Schatz's travels throughout the Latin countries of Spain, Portugal and Mexico, combined with his passion for Morocco and studies of Islamic geometric art. The hand crafted mosaics are complex abstractions of classic motifs. Miraflores, which means "to watch flowers" in Spanish, has a storied …
Global Lighting Introduces the Jacco Maris Collection Handmade Dutch Design
Mt. Vernon, New York........Global Lighting is proud to introduce Jacco Maris lighting to the United States and Canada. The collection, which is designed by Jacco Maris and handmade in The Netherlands, consists of five lights made from steel, brass, copper, iron, and sand casted aluminum. The lights are characterized by Maris's devotion to material before form. Regular forays to the local scrapyard inspire the designer with discoveries of twisted metal, industrial hose and odd fragments. The …
The Origins Collection Hand Made Ceramic Tile by Forrest Lesch-Middelton
(Sausalito, California)........c l é is proud to introduce the new Origins Collection of ceramic tile by Forrest Lesch-Middelton. A potter in Petaluma, California, Lesch-Middelton brings together a number of firing, forming and silk-screening techniques to create the complex designs and surfaces of his tile. Inspiration for the Origins Collection comes from the sacred geometry and arabesque designs found in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Each tile is hand made individually, and can be …
Erin Adams Designs for New Ravenna Mosaics
Erin Adams is one of today's foremost tile designers, with a career that spans almost twenty-five years. In her work as both artisan and interior designer, Erin infuses sophisticated urban sensibilities with elements of the folk art tradition that surrounded her as a child. Raised in San Antonio, Texas, Erin studied at New York's Pratt School of Art & Design. Her mother, artist Caroline Lee, opened San Antonio's first folk-art/contemporary gallery, Objects, in 1972. As …