October 2010
Walking the show at the Highpoint Furniture Market, I keep noticing the neutral linens covering a lot of new upholstered furniture...a lot like the two chairs I covered in an Irish linen a month before for our store...are we now feeling a kinship to natural materials? I hope so.
At the same show I found and 'Elephant' colored leather and quickly ordered a sectional because this non-color will work with so many other colors and non-colors alike.
December 2010
Walking around the newly-opened Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, I run across All Saints, a 10,000 square foot clothing store headquartered in London (with 70 stores world-wide now). The most striking visual is all the clothes are more-or-less Elephant in color. Certainly, if one blended all the non-colored fabrics together shown there - that is exactly what you would see. There are barely any colors at all in this store which is punctuated by old machines and 100s of Singer sewing machines lining the full glass storefront windows. Kudos on the visual display from an admiring retail store operator.
January 2011
Winter Furniture Market in Las Vegas
More Elephant is on the way - to our store and for every finish in the home. Linen is being used in a very creative way - wrapped around a console table with a clear protective matte finish. Today, neutral does not have to be boring. Think texture and various finishes. Just think, if you don't have bright colors in and on your major pieces to get tired of, then furnishings are more likely to stay out of landfills. This is good news for the environment and for your wallet. Keeping something for a longer period of time allows for a slightly higher budget so perhaps you can afford what you really love when amortized over time.....just another way to think about interiors.....maybe the same way we think about a better-built and better-designed automobiles.
It is all about the Elephant.
