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Sale: Velocity Art and Design

Kartell Ghost Chairs and more on sale now

Posted by: Amanda LaPlante on Jul 09, 2010 at 08:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Mix and match (to your outfit, to your decor) the Missoni fabrics on these Kartell chairs

What: 20 percent off all Kartell items — you know, like those coveted Louis Ghost Chairs which were $410 and are now $328 each. Don’t miss the pint-sized Lou Lou version, for $106, or the Mademoiselle Chair in Missoni fabrics (pictured here), on sale for $760. In addition to designer seating, you can snag great deals on lighting, tables, and storage and office solutions.

When: Now through July 18th

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Tags: South Lake Union, Home Decor, Spring/Summer sale 2010, Velocity Art and Design, Kartell

Wedding Wednesday

Family Traditions

Rosanna Bowles’ new book celebrates the way we come together at the table

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Jun 23, 2010 at 07:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Here’s an idea: Take a break from wedding planning in favor of planning, oh, you know, the rest of your life.

Rosanna Bowles, the Seattle dishware designer better known as simply Rosanna, will be dispensing decor wisdom, entertaining ideas, and dishware common sense while signing copies of her new Coming Home: A Seasonal Guide to Creating Family Traditions at Common Folk in Bellevue on Saturday June 26 from noon to 2.

Though Bowles didn’t necessarily write the book for newlyweds or engaged couples, the book’s just right for people like you. Weddings are all about you and Mr. or Mrs. Wonderful carving out your place on the family tree; they’re the perfect time and place to do something — serve a certain vintage, dance a certain dance, set a certain table — that you can then sort of be known for doing forever more.

As the Rosanna camp puts it: ‘Acknowledging the strong custom of bonding over meals, the book presents over 50 recipes geared with modern sensibility towards healthy, fresh, organic ingredients, coupled with entertaining and decorating ideas to complement the meals.’

Worth noting if you’re still deciding on favors, thank you gifts, reception ideas, and the like: Common Folk is packed to the gills with all manner of finds from glitzy to kitschy and back again.

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Tags: Weddings, Home Decor, Wedding Details, Wedding Favors

Events

Outside the Box

You’re invited to an open house featuring NuBe Green’s repurposed cardboard furniture

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 28, 2010 at 03:00PM Speech Bubble 2 Comments

Three cubic yards of Styrofoam peanuts once slept here: Graypants’ repurposed cardboard headboard at the Broadway’s open house

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What’s next? Movie theater seating made out of those boxes that soy milk comes in?

Local design duo Graypants (we featured their slice chair and more here), whose repurposed cardboard lighting fixtures you’ve seen all over town from the bar at Vermillion to your cousin Ray’s rad pad, used their favorite material to craft a custom headboard for the Broadway, a new Built Green 3-star certified building overlooking Cal Anderson Park at 1620 Broadway.

You’re invited to an open house there, where a model unit is staged with cardboard furnishings from NuBe Green, including those aforementioned.

So go, on Thursday, June 3 between 4 and 8, and make yourself at home (use the building entrance off of Nagle Pl). It’s a cool opportunity to see innovative design work in a natural setting, and also to spy on new living quarters and imagine a world of fully sustainable cool.

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Tags: Home Decor, Locally Designed, Sustainable Such and Such

Wedding Wednesday

Link Trader: Planning Ahead

The Wedding Wednesday version of the essential blog swap.

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 26, 2010 at 07:35AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

The Valley’s love Dog n’ Bird, which links to lots of other wedding sites for great DIY instructions and more; here, an image for a Once Wed how-to on herbal boutonnieres

This makes a lot of sense: A husband and wife wedding-consulting team. Nick and Aleah Valley of Fine Line Management share their planning and decor skills with couples in Seattle and Southern California, and around the world. Their blog Valley and Co. connects the two arms of their business and keeps clients up-to-date on their day-to-day.

Thinking it’d be good to know where, in particular, a male wedding expert goes for visual inspiration, I asked the Valleys to share their links with you today. Here goes. Daily must-reads for Aleah and Nick:

Dog n’ Bird We love Dog n’ Bird! It’s inspired by new and fresh innovation that is easily accessible (think single photos and impact pieces updated daily). Dog n’ Bird takes an editorial view on the wedding community and bubbles up the most creative ideas in a highly scannable, visual way. It is a resource for inspiration and affordable or DIY versions of high-end ideas or to discover trends before the mainstream.

The Knotty Bride Blog The Knotty Bride wedding blog is all about WOW factor obsession! Alison is devoted to bringing her readers a constant flow of stylish, chic and creative wedding inspiration, personal stories, a little innuendo, and all the answers they could ever need to make their wedding experience the ultimate celebration of who they are!

The Loveliest Day Melissa posts the most lovely inspiration, vintage-inspired photo shoots, and (well) loveliness with a touch of rock ‘n roll! You’ll see unique takes on engagement shoots, super fun wedding events, and loads of eye candy.

Brenda’s Wedding Blog Brenda takes the best from around the web and compiles all sort of goodness into her blog. She frequently features expert advice from around the country (we’re frequent guest bloggers) which is invaluable to brides and grooms-to-be.

Merci New York Jackie’s eye is just exquisite. She posts amazing New York City happenings, but also featuring stunning fashion picks, gorgeous weddings, and most recently, she covered Liz and Colin’s Sandals Emerald Bay wedding with Martha Stewart Weddings.

Finally, for the guys: stop by Temple of Groom for fun daily musings from a groom who just loves planning his own wedding. You’ll be sure to laugh, be entertained, and even learn something!

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Tags: Weddings, Home Decor, Link Trader, Link Trader, Wedding Details

Wedding Wednesday

Where to Find It: Cake Pedestals, Part II

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on May 19, 2010 at 07:30AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Courtesy Tallant House

Slideshow: Mosser cake pedestals, available at Totally Tabletops, and cakes from Tallant House

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If, three years ago when we launched Seattle Met Bride & Groom, you had told me that I’d be spending a lot of time talking to people about cake platters, you would have been met with a pretty blank stare. As it turns out, the topic does come up a lot, so I’ve learned to focus my gaze a little.

I think the thing is that most people don’t spend a lot of time looking at or for cake pedestals until they need one — like, for a five-tier fresh raspberry-stripped chocolate ganache dream — and all those Amy Atlas dessert buffets make them feel that their union won’t even be legal if they don’t have a five-some of cakes on pretty strands strewn just-so on a long, perfect-color-palette spread.

Furthermore, they assume that after the DJ cues or the band approximates that terrible and seemingly irresistible Average White Band song, they’ll never need one again. And a headache ensues.

Cake pedestals, as we found out here, are not that hard to find. But if you’re imagining something clean-lined and stylishly classic, maybe in a haute shade of neon or a vintage jade hue, just call Sheena Kalso at Totally Tabletops.

Kalso rents great modern pieces to couples who aren’t looking for overly precious or expensively bland, and she’s excited to have recently added a huge pile of Mosser brand pedestals courtesy of Judy Tallant of Tallant House. Totally Tabletops serving pieces are pictured here; check them out.

More and more couples are doing the multiple cake thing, for sure. It makes so much sense, and it makes for such a pretty spread. Browsing the Totally-Tabletop-by-way-of-Tallant-House collection, you can just imagine how the blue milk glass Mosser would look next to a white milk glass Mosser surrounded by couple of shorter, ruffled-edge clear platters. That is: adorable. Good enough to eat. (Though it should be noted, the pedestals work just as well under a single, stacked cake or piled with cupcakes, donuts, cookies, or whatever else.)

So go ahead and dream, and browse the images here, courtesy Tallant House, knowing that you can make it all happen without spending a bunch of money (the Mossers are loaned for between $10 and $20 bucks), and without a single headache.

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Tags: Home Decor, Desserts, Wedding Details, Rentals, Where to Find It

Retail News

Little Shops of Adorable

Two new floral shops, two not-entirely-new floral designers

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Apr 28, 2010 at 07:45AM Speech Bubble 1 Comments

Slideshow: Fleurt, new in West Seattle.

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You’ve always harbored a secret ambition to tuck fox glove around cosmos and layer peonies with poppies.

And you, you’ve been sketching a reception that features an extra long, extended family style table with dozens and dozens of small, wild but harmonious vintage-feeling arrangements running down the middle.

Two new floral shops provide great, homegrown resources to all kinds of customers (we’re talking to you, Mother’s Day shoppers), but for couples on their way to vows and wows with stylish ceremonies and gorgeous feasts, they represent two very particular boons.

You, dear armchair designer, should get to the recently opened Cap Hill spot Marigold and Mint to meet Katherine Anderson and find out how she can be your back-pocket DIY dream-maker. With a landscape architecture degree and a farm 30 minutes from the city, Anderson is less an arranger and more a farm-to-table enabler. To see more of her crops, pick up a copy of our current issue and catch (!) her cardoon bouquet, marigold garland, and more.

And you, Francophilic lover of all things abundant and ever-so-perfectly undone, should get to West Seattle’s new Fleurt, where Sam Crowley builds floral tablescapes with regional and world-sourced blooms the way Willie Wonka built chocolate playgrounds. Drawing on a fashion and botanicals background, a nose for what goes, and an eye for chic, just-so offbeat designs, Crowley’s Fleurt is like a showroom of her ideas—or a place to collaborate with her on yours.

Check the slideshow here for a tour of Fleurt, access more floral designers on the Seattle Met Bride & Groom website, and revisit this post detailing the behind-the-scenes experiences of some of the city’s top blossom wranglers.

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Tags: Weddings, Home Decor, flowers

Sales

Sale of the Week: Handmade Home

Find earthy, elegant deals at the red-dot sale at Liave

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Mar 23, 2010 at 07:00AM Speech Bubble 1 Comments

Slideshow: Artful home accessories on sale at Liave

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Cornelia Veit brought back the red dot, and she made it fit in to a pretty special place, too.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen anyone utilize the bold round %-off stickers this well. It does seem like the time, even if Liave isn’t the most obvious place.

At the West Edge home store, earthy, handmade European ceramics and ethereal old-world glasswork from the far eastern side of that continent have been discounted from 10 to 50% off to make room for spring arrivals. Now through March 31, and there are some pretty sweet deals to be had.

Remember that beautiful, Dutch-made saturated blue suede shoulder bag that was Veit’s favorite thing back in July? Well, okay, that one’s gone, but some of its collection-mates are still around, and with the markdown, you really do want to safety-pin one of them to your collarbone so you never have to be without it.

Check the slideshow here for more.

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Tags: Design, sale, Fall/Winter Sale, Home Decor, West Edge

What's in Store

Where to Find It: Made in the Shade

Dawn Bassett wants to cover your light bulbs with something non-toxic, traditionally built, and fabulous

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Mar 16, 2010 at 07:45AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Slideshow: Dawn Bassett’s inspiring home decor and lamp shade boutique

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Not to rain on your daylight savings time parade, but I’d like to point out that we do lean quite heavily on artificial light around here. Consider lamps, then, the shoes of your home’s outfit.

Lamps and shades.

At Lit Shades on Capitol Hill, Dawn Bassett fashions lamp coverings out of rich papers and designer fabrics using old-world methods and non-toxic adhesives. If you think a light bulb’s dressing gown can’t create much of a style statement, take a pass through the slideshow here, and start noticing the lamps and shades in your world … Saggy, browned, and boring? You’d be surprised how little it costs to give your light sources a makeover.

(And if the lamps and couture shades look familiar, it may be that you’re a Revival Home shopper. Bassett’s work is offered and on display at the eat-your-heart-out-Kelley-Wearstler Cap Hill home store.)

The shop functions as a boutique, (Grace Gow earrings, gorgeous letterpress stationery from Bremelo Press) a showroom and meeting space for her clients, and a studio/workroom, and if you aren’t charmed by the chic proprietress rewiring vintage lamp bases and reworking antique wire frames in her Madmen-esque heels-n-skirts while her pet papillon pup scampers around, you probably can’t be charmed.

Bassett reports that a new shipment of old bases is arriving this week; though she does specialize and concentrate on shades, she scores vintage and estate lamps from time to time and is then able to sell you the whole kit-and-kaboodle. If you’ve got a dark corner or a dreary room, you owe yourself a trip to her sweet, stylish, and inspiring space.

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Want more illumination? Read What a Turn On and find out where else you can shop for period and designer lighting options.

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Tags: Locally Made, Capitol Hill, Home Decor, Where to Find It

Wear What When and Who

Dress Code: Belle Époque

What to wear to the March 12 opening at the stylish new White Sage Studio

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Mar 05, 2010 at 09:00AM Speech Bubble 8 Comments

Slideshow: Neo-Victorian (Belle Epic!) runway looks to inspire next Friday’s outfit. (here: Christian Lacroix Spring 08)

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Opening March 12 at the new, buzzed-about, supercool White Sage Studio in Ballard: New Victorian, a show of gorgeously patterned wallpaper designs including one called “Wallflower” by Jordan Landin for the local house Hermitage, and new-world-meets-old-world porcelain design by Far 4.

A rule of thumb in sometimes-casual Seattle: Don’t miss an opportunity to flex your sartorial muscles. Under the heading of “Opportunities”: Art Openings.

I can’t, and won’t, resist the chance to rock granny boots and a high-neck, billowy-sleeved blouse with a pair of baggy jeans. Or maybe a cropped, strong-shouldered velvet blazer with some short pants? I love the whole Gothic/romantic thing. If you can relate, check the slideshow here for inspiration and consider adding a few designer-inspired elements to next Friday’s look.

Here’s the question, though: Where to go for dinner and drinks afterward in your neo-black lace, ruffled leather, bustled bubble-hum finery?

New Victorian at White Sage will also include art by Cody Blomberg, Frank Correa, and Jeffery Babbidge. The party on Friday March 12 goes from 6-9p, and the show itself will be up through April 10.

(And no, I didn’t spend hours researching every season by every designer for the past four years, I just made use of NYMag’s superfun trend finder. )

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Tags: Openings, Home Decor, Dress Code

What's In Store

Sweet Suggestion #5

Fired, Sealed, Delivered

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 10, 2010 at 06:17PM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

What’s red, hot, and on your beloved’s doorstep?

Flowers and pizza are not the only things that can be delivered come Sunday. Add to the short list: Glassybaby hand-fired vessels.

For Valentine’s Day, the local glassblowers are geared up to deliver their gorgeously hued votives and glasses directly to your loved one’s door.

Even if your loved one is in New York City.

Did you know this? Founder Lee Rhodes and company recently opened a shop in the West Village. The um, New York Times thinks it’s cool.

So, yeah. If you heart New York, or even Queen Anne, and you’re feeling the pressure of Sunday pressing in on you, a glossy red (or pink or raspberry) Glassybaby sure beats a meat lover’s pie.

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Tags: Valentine's Day, Home Decor, New York

What's in Store

Where to Find It: Eternal Flame Part II

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 09, 2010 at 09:00AM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Come on, baby. Light my fire.

If you’re planning on covering the Cal King in millions of fresh rose petals under the soft, flickering glow of a gothic candelabra (you’re so romantic) this Sunday, you can definitely use this tip on great-price tapers.

And let’s say you’re planning to sit at home alone and burn old love letters while listening to Air Supply remixes by the Neptunes. Cool. This is good info for you as well.

I really really like nice candles. Remember? So when, in the middle of grocery shopping at the Madison Market, I spied a supply of Scandinavia-made tapers for a $1.79 each I did a little dance. The dance involved transferring whatever was in my hands to the crook of one arm so that I could load every last slate gray taper (there were fourteen; I would have taken 44 if there were 44 to take) into the crook of the other and getting myself immediately to the check-out stand.

So there you have it: Long, tall, well-made candles for about two bucks less than you are normally asked to pay for them, at the Hill’s favorite co-op.

Enjoy. Everyone looks more beautiful by candle light.

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Tags: Valentine's Day, Home Decor, Where to Find It

What's in Store

Sweet Suggestion #3

How to get under the covers with that special someone

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 04, 2010 at 12:30PM Speech Bubble 0 Comments

Photo: Image from Blackbird's shopping pages

As far as helpful hints go, what better way to say, “Hey, I’d really like to get under the covers with you” than a rich, vivid, beautiful blanket.

The folks at Blackbird and their sibling shop Field House have an affinity for American and Northwest products, and they’re in love with (as are others in the fashion world) the Oregon-based heritage brand Pendleton.

Couldn’t you be in love with — or under — Pendleton’s Fremont blanket?

All the gorgeously historical and timeless Pendleton pieces in the Blackbird collection (or for that matter at the Downtown Pendleton store) — can be seen as the anti-lingerie. Not that there’s anything wrong with lingerie, but skimpy and strappy doesn’t work for everyone.

If cozy, warming, and private is your idea of sexy, well, you know what to do next.

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Tags: Hamburgers, Locally Made, Valentine's Day, Heritage Brands, Home Decor, Gift Guide, Pendleton

Wear What When

Sale: Velocity Art and Design

Family Traditions

Outside the Box

Link Trader: Planning Ahead

Where to Find It: Cake Pedestals, Part II

Little Shops of Adorable

Sale of the Week: Handmade Home

Where to Find It: Made in the Shade

Dress Code: Belle Époque

Sweet Suggestion #5

Where to Find It: Eternal Flame Part II

Sweet Suggestion #3

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