If you thought that I was all over the place last week, just wait til you hear about this week...
It started off by sprouting a bamboo patch in the middle of the show room floor.
This is 15' tall real bamboo wood with silk bamboo leaves.
And this is how it started, before I made my magic happen...
Can you say voila!
Next I played around a little bit more in the storefront, working on my product placement skills. The showroom was beginning to look a little sparse as a result of a few spring sales we held, so I moved some product around to make it all look fresh again.
Here is a Tuscan themed area.
And an area that is supposed to resemble a flower market.
So this week I went from the japanese jungles, to tuscany, to the boston flower market....
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Then somehow, I ended up in NYC! For real, not just creating an instore display to mimick the Manhatten skyline.
Rudy and David took Bill and I to the areas of Bryant Park, 5th Ave and 32nd St to the D&D Building, also known as the Design and Decor Building and to 7th Ave and 43rd St. to the New York City Design Center. These buildings are 18 and 15 stories of designer showrooms showcasing furniture, home accessories, wallpaper, tapestries, wall treatments, textiles and fabrics, paints, carpeting and lighting. So for this HGTV fiend.... HEAVEN!!!
I didn't know the majority of the designers, but the product either made me jump for joy or wrinkle my nose. My favorite showroom was Ralph Lauren's. I fell in love with a navy and ivory wide striped couch that cost only $21,000 and a giant crystal chandelier that cost upwards of $35,000. Some of the pricing was astronomical, some was reasonable, but most was a little ridiculous.
I learned about design styles, french chic is very in in right now, furniture placement and color scheming.
Here is a very small sample of what I saw throughout the day.
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| Manhattan Skyline |
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| I haven't a clue who this designer is, but that's VERMICULITE being used as a sparkly, textured wall treatment! |
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| If you don't believe me, here's a close up |
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| Birch twigs captured in a thick sheet of acrylic and used as a table top |
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| Rock hard buns! This statue was placed in a coffee table in front of a couch that Bill and I were sitting on, I don't know what would have been better, a full frontal or the rear view we got. I do believe I will never have naked statues in my home... just a thought. |
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| This entire wall was COVERED in differently styled light switches |
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| Giant rose sculptures in the medians along Lexington Ave. |
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| A montage of fashion pieces from Alexander McQueen's collections from over the past decade in the windows of Bergdorf Goodman. |
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| If I could afford designer clothing, it would be Alexander McQueen |
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| This was also being showcased at the MOMA |
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| The exhibit was called savage beauty |
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| Random cathedral and a slight detour |
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| Rockafeller Center, how do all those people fir on that tiny ice rink, that is now quite the large patio bar...? |
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| This is how a storefront should NOT look! Oh my goodness! Look! A Pansy threw up all over those display windows! |
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