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Once a Pop Up Pavilion for Chanel, Architect Zaha Hadid’s Work Is Displayed in Paris

Cutting-edge woman architect's is work on display at Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris In the courtyard of the Institut du Monde Arabe, in the Latin Quarter at the start of Blvd. St. Germain, is a shiny, curvaceous white structure resembling a spaceship. It's the mobile art pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid and features a retrospective of the last 30 years of her cutting-edge architecture. Hadid originally designed the structure for Chanel in 2008 as a traveling art exhibition showcasing artists designing special edition handbags for Chanel and toured Hong Kong,Tokyo, and New York before arriving in Paris. Recognized as one of the most respected architects in the world right now, Hadid was the first woman to win the Pritzker

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Style Wizz-Philippe Starck and Duravit Create a Museum-Worthy Urinal

On view at WaterDream: the Art of Bathroom Design, at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) Who knew that a loo could be so cool? Well, I do as I have a Phillipe Starck toilet in two of the bathrooms of our New York loft. But a urinal, and one that's museum worthy too? A Philippe Starck and Duravit toilet in my powder room in New York. Isn't that painting wild? Through September 17, Duravit and Starck will be on display as part of a popular exhibit entitled WaterDream: the Art of Bathroom Design, mounted at the newly relocated Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA). What caught my eye are the three sleek Architec High Efficiency Urinals (HEUs) in the public

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Exclusive Video of Yves Saint Laurent's Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech, Morocco for RHONYC Fans

Brad Boles shares a sneak peek inside the world of YSL & The Real Housewives of New York City go exotic! Come watch my video of my exclusive look inside the private world of Pierre Berge and Yves Saint Laurent's Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech, Morocco... It's all about THE BLUE: Watch Brad Boles and his friend Daniele Pollitz explain You may have spotted me on the teaser at the end of last week's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City. Well, I guess you can figure out the rest! When I think of great style, one of the icons would have to be Yves Saint Laurent and his love of all things beautiful. The first time I step

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Home Style- Trussardi Design Relaunches at the Salone del Mobile in Milan

The furniture collaboration designed by Michael Young in celebration of the fashion brand's 100th anniversary Furniture meets 100 years of Italian leather-working fashion expertise with the relaunch of Trussardi's 100 Collection designed by Michael Young. The British designer who resides in Hong Kong focuses on creating links between contemporary design and the technical abilities of the local Chinese industry in an amalgamation of high quality, style, and technological innovation between the East and West. 100 Bench from Trussardi MY Design >> MORE: Home Style During the the eighties and nineties the brand was known for enhancing a luxury lifestyle , with products ranging from the the Trussardi telephone to lifestyle design partnerships with Alitalia, Alfa Romeo, Vespa, Mini, Busnelli, and

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Home Style- French Furniture House Taillardat Adds a Fashion Touch to Marie Antoinette, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Empire and Directoire pieces

Style Where You Sit: A modern spin on high-end 18th century furniture reproductions You all must know that I cannot possibly imagine living in a home without the benefit of having something beautiful to look at and inspire by way of its furniture. For me, in particular, the chair can take so many artistic and creative forms that I wish I could collect as many as my other obsession- shoes and boots! >>MORE: Home Style I've almost run out of any possible space to add another "interesting" chair in our loft, so I've come to admire from afar, particularly ones that have a different design aesthetic from my home. Richard Nahem, who has a pretty fab pad in Paris, came

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Stylish Table Setting Inspiration from DIFFA's Dining By Design NY

Home Style: Inventive table settings to make any dinner party a special event! Okay, you've got the fancy tablewear, have a menu planned but need something extra special to make your dinner party unforgettable. Look no further than DIFFA's Dining By Design 2011, held this past weekend in New York held in conjunction with the Architectural Digest Home Design Show-- another treat for the home design senses. The DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) annual spring event brings together some the most creative minds in fashion, interior design, art, and architecture, along with next generation designers from the Student Design Initiative, to envision the Pier 49 venue as a blank canvas and then let themselves go to create wildly imaginative

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Jean Paul Gaultier Furniture Sweetens Up Paris Elle Decor Suite

Love the crazy way Jean Paul Gaultier put his signature nautical stripes on wacky, cool furniture For the last two years Elle Decor has selected a fashion designer to decorate the former apartment of Jacques Carlu at the Cité de Architecture. This year the chosen is Jean Paul Gaultier, proceeding Christian Lacroix and Martin Margiela. Jean Paul Gaultier has brought his usual whimsical and sometimes kitschy style to the 2,400 sq. ft. space atop the museum. >> Home Style SHOPPING Guide Sort of an optical illusion Enter the vestibule and you find his signature marine blue and white stripes covering the walls and furniture but the stripes are askew in certain spots making it an optical illusion. Lushness abounds In

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Rick Owens Furniture As Art Still On View at Salon 94 with Pavane for a Dead Princess

Designer Rick Owens transforms the Studio 94 gallery into Pavane for a Dead Princess, a contemporary sleeping quarter based in part on his own Parisian home. Pavane for a Dead Princess, is Rick Owens' first presentation of furniture design in the United StatesRick Owens' design vision melds archaism with modernism, brutal beauty with uncompromising luxury, whether in his collectible cool chic clothes or sterling foray into home design. Inspiration not to be missed: In an Inspired by French composer Maurice Ravel’s composition for solo piano written in 1899 and presented by Salon 94 and Rudy Weissenberg, the centerpiece of the bedroom interior by Rick Owens is a towering Spanish alabaster headboard above a low-lying bed, a monumental composition that dominates

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Prettypretty Chairs are pretty wiggy

Hair chairs for your kookiest indulgences If you have more wigs than Dolly Parton has gone through in a lifetime, you might just start to want to look at them as potential art rather than pile of beauty roadkill. I love to look at the obvious and see it in so many different and unique ways that nothing is ever expected, whether it be art or the way are inspired by the ordinary to make to extraordinary. PRETTYPRETTY Anna Pouf Furniture designer Dejana Kabiljo of the Viennese design brand, Kabiljo Inc. sees and designs “objects for all of us with little fetishes, bad habits and compulsive actions.” The materials are carefully researched and subdued to a series of experimental processes

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Fashion as Furniture: Dressed Chairs make your room as pretty as you

Found art finds fashion pretty enough to sit upon We all know that we've done this at least once! You can't believe how much you are madly in love with your new purchase. You purposely leave it strewn across a chair, just to kvel over like a doting grandmother. There are those of us who have a cherished pair or two of gorgeous, yet impractical, shoes put blatantly on display to ogle, like an artful vignette under our nightstand. Others have a nightly ritual of laying out the next day's outfit, complete with accessories to be both prepared and admired in the process. So why not take that same fashion inspiration and lavish it upon our furniture? Rooms.ge chair dressed

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H and M introduces home style collection

Hey Ikea, you may not be the only cheapie home design Swede in town, for long…   No published date is set for the U.S. just yet, but this is something worth waiting for. H&M is launching a gorgeous cheap on the chic home design collection for interiors savvy consumers.   "Simplicity and how easy it is to shop is key," says Evelina Kravaev SA¶derberg, H&M Home's head of design. "We want to show people that it doesn't have to be expensive or dramatic to change your home"   The Good News: The opportunity to transform every room in the house into a stylish, budget-friendly domain with on-trend home textiles and accessories will be exclusively available online and through a

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Fit the Room with Perfume?

Fragrance delivered to your environment Gasp, wheeze, itch, and run. Not pleasant, eh? That's the deal when you become olfactory meshed to the dweeb marinated in perfume. Here's a head's up to fragrance future, perfect for those who impale our senses with too much of their good thing. Imagine wearing a little patch which acts like your own personal fragrance butler and doles out the most suitable amount of scent based on body conditions. Pretty nifty. SNIF™ by PDD, the product innovation partner has three scent reservoirs which blend in direct response to the user's skin. The amount of scent then produced responds to the space you are in: a little spritz in an elevator, a bigger blast for the

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