Ready for Spring: Fabrics Galore!
One of my favorite parts of my job is to be on top of new fabric trends for the year. For 2011, the colors are interesting, eye-catching and soothing–just the feeling they are trying to evoke and we are trying to embrace. The aesthetic theme behind the new Spring and the Summer 2011 interior design …
Trend Report: Fall/Winter 2011, Part IV
Headed to Paris, but want to share the final Fall/Winter 2011 trend before I leave lovely Chicago. Stylesight presents the mood and inspiration behind the four interior forecast trends, Composition, Hyperreal, Evolution, and Rave, which includes key information for styling, floors, and walls. The final trend, Rave, takes 1990s culture and inspires an intense palette …
Trend Report: Fall/Winter 2011, Part III
Now in Chicago and absorbing design inspiration that NeoCon holds, I am still looking forward to what Fall/Winter 2011 trends have to offer. Stylesight presents the mood and inspiration behind the four interior forecast trends, Composition, Hyperreal, Evolution, and Rave, which includes key information for styling, floors, and walls. The third trend, Evolution, explores the …
Trend Report: Fall/Winter 2011, Part II
Now in Chicago and absorbing design inspiration that NeoCon holds, I am still looking forward to what Fall/Winter 2011 trends have to offer. Stylesight presents the mood and inspiration behind the four interior forecast trends, Composition, Hyperreal, Evolution, and Rave, which includes key information for styling, floors, and walls. The second trend, Hyperreal, is inspired …
Trend Report: Fall/Winter 2011, Part I
As I prepare to take on Chicago and the design inspiration that NeoCon holds, I am also looking forward to what Fall/Winter 2011 trends have to offer. Stylesight presents the mood and inspiration behind the four interior forecast trends, Composition, Hyperreal, Evolution, and Rave, which includes key information for styling, floors, and walls. Since there …
Winter Market Sketchbook III
Bold, arresting designs usher in the new year. Watch out for mixed textures, simplicity and elegance to be in the spotlight for 2010. Chock full of vibrant appeal, the top looks for the season range from spicy Thai to refined rustic to reinvented nautical. Ethnic motifs and modernist design explode in an exotic ode to …
Jonathan Adler Pillows: A Vacation at Home!
Jonathan Adler’s needlepoint homage to some of our favorite glamorous locales is simply fabulous. Jet off to Capri, Monte Carlo, Acapulco, or Ipanema for a mini-vacation without leaving your home. Or, not feeling terribly glamorous? Hop on a Greyhound bus to Fresno and Scranton–he has those pillows too! Decorate with glamour and a dash of …
Chinois Chic
In Tracy Bulla’s Summer Sketchbook, she recognizes that East has met West with divine inspiration. Lighting, bedding and side chairs balance the sumptuous decadence of the former with the streamlined modernist approach of the latter. Botanicals, bamboo and origami-style pleats mingle with sleek glass and chrome for a delicious sense of drama. In the photo, …
Open to Oak?
Personally, I have never liked oak as a wood used for furniture. However, lately, oak has taken on a lighter look that I find quite appealing. Recently, writing desks in particular fare on the lighter side looking ultra fresh and revamped for the season. White to light golden oak is all the rage, and accents …
Color Personalities
Color perception is all about light waves and light waves have energy which stimulates the pituitary and pineal glands which regulate hormones and other physiological systems in the body. Because of this, it’s been shown that blind people are sometimes able to identify colors by touch. As you work with colors there are a couple …




















