Italian Modern

There are a few really outstanding modern furniture manufacturers that produce the cutting edge design that eventually sets the trend of the market, and Tonin Casa is just that. The very Italian Tonin Casa modern furniture collection features a sharp and clean combination of bent and shaped glass, metals, stone, and bold colors working in unison to form one of the most exciting home furniture collections around. Here is just a sampling of the brilliant designs you will hopefully love, see the rest of the collection at Tonincasa.it
You are going to love these designs, I spent several hours looking at all of the styles!!!

Sophistication and Serenity

Feature Architect/Designer/Real Estate DeveloperJANNA BULLOCK
NY


Janna Bullock is the Founder and Chief Executive of RIGroup, a real estate development company that focuses on residential, commercial, and hotel properties in the United States, Europe, and Russia.



Bullock arranged the “Russian House,” which displays modern Russian art and 19th-century furniture loaned by the Hermitage Museum. And the “Eco-House” by Alhadeff showcases river-stone walls in the bathrooms and cork dining chairs by the French designer Martin Szekely.



“Janna introduces a different concept of luxury, “Right now, luxury means a pompous style with a lot of gilt, bronze and decoration. We think being environment friendly is the most important: building with wood and stone, using recycled water and trying to use alternative energy sources even though it’s not easy in our climate.”



Ms. Bullock completed graduate work in comparative philosophy at St. Petersburg State University and received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

A native of Moscow, Bullock founded her company in 2003 and has become an advocate for sustainable design and energy-efficient technologies in her building projects. Bullock is known for her commitment to excellence in the preservation and restoration of landmark architecture. One of few female real estate developers in New York City, Bullock has restored a number of historic townhouses in the City’s Upper East Side and the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, an important Russian monastery located outside Moscow and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Bullock is also recognized for her support of contemporary design, both as an avid collector and committed patron of the arts, but also for innovative projects like the 2007 Russian Design Show at Ecoestate Pavlovskaya sloboda, a sustainable community in Russia featuring exemplary homes furnished with objects designed by David Adjaye, Frank Gehry, Gio Ponti, the Campana Brothers, Aranda & Lasch and others.

A passionate art collector, Ms. Bullock has assembled more than 4000 works by Russian artists from the late 19th century to the present day. Additionally, her collection includes 400 works by Western contemporary artists.
Affiliations/Honors/Awards

"Name Dropping"

December 6, 2007 -- THE Art Basel convention in Miami has drawn planeloads of hard-partying New Yorkers. Condé Nast and jeans company 7 for All Mankind co-host an event at the Ice House, while Cartier serves dinner at the Botanical Gardens and Jimmy Choo pours for the fashionistas at the Raleigh. Dennis Hopper will be at the Russia Miami exhibit organized by Jana Bullock and Hugo Boss. Tomorrow, Vanity Fair and MoMA hold a bash at the Shore Club, while Linda Evangelista hosts a dance party with Visionaire at the Florida Room. On Saturday, the event's closing night, Russell Simmons and Allison Weiss Brady throw a benefit for the Rush Philanthropic Organization at Intermix, as Adidas stages a Y3 event in the design district. But the big invites are the private dinners at Paul Wilmot's home and the soiree for Julian Schnabel and Lou Reed's flick "Berlin" at Set.

Recipient, 2008 Design Commendation, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards
Trustee, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Chairwoman, Jaze Art Foundation
International Leadership Chairwoman, Russian National Orchestra�s New York gala

Sophistication and Serenity is Janna's signature style for design, how appropriate for me to introduce her to you on my design site.

Great Awakenings

This is the Great Awakenings collection from Neiman Marcus. I hope you enjoyed the luxurious escape. I have designed many custom bed ensembles, the skirted bedspread was always my first choice. Although this leans toward a feminine style, the fabric you choose can add a masculine touch. You could design a skirted bed-skirt and top it with a flat duvet, as in the brown/teal version shown above, giving it the best of both worlds. Neiman's have outdone themselves in this collection.

Tiffany/Style and Class

Magnolia Close-Up

Featured Designer
Dr. Grotepass Studios
Germany
Magnolia Floor Lamp

Peony close-up

Peony Floor Lamp

Butterfly


Lamburnum

This style is my favorite because of the of the feminine delicacy of the shape and colors.

Dragonfly

Wisteria


Tiffany lamps generally mean stained glass lamps. The reason they're called Tiffany lamps is because back in the late 1800's, early 1900's a guy by the name of Louis Comfort Tiffany propelled stained glass lamps to a new level. Using an innovative technique to produce exquisite decorative stained glass lamps that were works of art. Back in the day, Tiffany lamps were all the rage. And anyone who was wealthy enough to own one had one. Even the white house displayed a few lamps of Tiffany's.

Due to the popularity of these lamps, other company's wanted a piece of the action. And started making their own Tiffany style lamps. Two of the most popular makers of these beautiful works of art, (Tiffany Studios being the most successful and popular).

Lamp makers succeeded in producing good quality Tiffany style lamps. And even today, just like Tiffany reproduction lamps, you can get Handel reproduction lamps and Duffner & Kimberly reproductions lamps.

I highly recommend owning a Tiffany or reproduction, it is it's own art accent for any room. Each tells a story since individual lamps are based on a theme.

For more than 20 years Dr. Grotepass has created extraordinary reproduction of Tiffany lamp designs for his customers worldwide, including architects, interior designers and individuals that appreciate Tiffany Studio work, but who do not wish to pay the incredibly high prices that original antique lamps command.

Dr. Grotepass uses the original working methods of Tiffany Studios-New York (1880-1930).

His studio professionally restores and repairs original Tiffany lamps using the long-lost methods that only they have discovered. The lamps recapture the artistry of the originals through subtle coloration achieved by matching the finest glass available and through meticulous hand-crafting of the metalwork in each shade.

Worldwide shipping by FedEx, all glass/bronze items are packed professional in wooden boxes to assure safe receipt of your treasures.

You can email Dr. Hans-Peter Grotepass direct at info@Tiffany-Studios.com.

It has been my pleasure introducing you to Tiffany-Studios and Dr. Grotepass as an artist/designer of Tiffany lamp reproductions.

Piana

The Loro Piana name has become synonymous with the manufacture of exquisite cashmere products. For six generations, the Italian maker has maintained access to the world's most valued raw materials, and in recent decades it has assumed a proactive position to replenish those resources as part of its business model. Today, those exclusive fibers found in clothing and accessories are available in a wide range of interior products, bringing the same sophisticated Loro Piana lifestyle into the home. "The Loro Piana Interiors fabrics were created to enable Loro Piana's customers to furnish and 'dress' interiors with the same refined quality and attention to detail as they dress themselves," says Pier Luigi, the current chairman of the company.
Originally from Trivero, Italy, the Loro Piana family started as wool merchants early in the nineteenth century. In 1924, the current company, Ing. Loro Piana & C., was founded by Pietro Loro Piana in Quarona in Northern Italy. By 1941, Pietro's nephew, Franco, had assumed responsibility for the company and after the war, the firm began to establish its reputation as a supplier of superior wool and cashmere textiles for a growing haute couture industry.
Whether it's a yard of fabric or a cashmere scarf, the common thread that links Loro Piana's textiles and garments is the use of the most exclusive fibers, sourced from three continents. With facilities in Mongolia and China, which is now the world's largest producer of raw cashmere, Loro Piana has control over every step in the process.Manufacturing begins with fibers that come from the adult cashmere goat. In Mongolia, baby Hyrcus goats provide a higher-caliber cashmere that is harvested from combing the soft undercoat. Since this is done between the ages of three and twelve months, it can occur only once. From this has come one of the company's proprietary fabrics, known as Baby Cashmere®, which is used throughout the line in both clothing and interiors.

Abstract Art

Featured Abstract Artist
Lasha Khidasheli
Charlotte NC

Lasha was born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, in 1971. Graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts in 1995 with qualification of Artist-Sculptor. From 1995 to 1998 worked as an instructor at the Academy.

His works were displayed at exhibitions in the Republic of Georgia, including exhibition of Avant Garde Fashion Assembly in 1995, the exhibition at National Art Gallery in 1995, the Modern Art Gallery in 1996 and 1997, the exhibition at the Hobby Gallery in 1997. In the US has exhibited at the Art-1 Gallery in Gastonia, NC (2000); at the Tri-State Sculpture Exhibition (2000), as well as one man show at the Tyson Executive Center (2001) in Washington, DC. Was also selected to exhibit in the national competition in Loveland, CO at the Sculpture in the Park Exhibition, and at the America-Georgia Business Council Annual Conference in Washington, DC (2001). In April of 2002, had an exhibition at Picture House Gallery in Charlotte, NC. Interviewed by Voice of America in November of 2001. The works are displayed in many public and private collections in Tbilisi, Praha, Moscow, Madrid and in the USA.


Lost Civilization

Black Butterfly

Alabasters

Sisters

Hawk of the Mountain

Understanding Abstract Art

Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities. Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and representational (or realistic) art often contains partial abstraction.

Both Geometric abstraction and Lyrical Abstraction are often totally abstract. Among the very numerous art movements that embody partial abstraction would be for instance fauvism in which color is conspicuously and deliberately altered vis-a-vis reality, and cubism, which blatantly alters the forms of the real life entities depicted.




Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality. The arts of cultures other than the European had become accessible and showed alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and reflected the social and intellectual preoccupations in all areas of Western culture at that time.
Abstract art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art, are loosely related terms. They are of similar, although perhaps not identical meaning.
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art.



I believe my featured Abstract Artist is driven by the science of  abstract art, according to the definition above, Lasha explained to me what drives his creative works in the paragraph below.

Lasha Khidasheli is a person deeply driven by concerns of the existential relationship of time, space and human interaction. The sculptures express my basic philosophy of existence, time, mass and energy. The essence of my artistic views is revealed in Creation.

Creation is a sculpture looking backward to the beginning of the universal existence. Two diametric energies crash together producing the beginning. Here is the fusion of two entities. Creation shows white limestone shining with the bright light of the ideal in humanity – while black serpentine groans with the midnight of darkness. The heaviness of stone is made fluid with ornamentation and carvings which assert brightness of the vision surrounding creation. The source of the light for our existence is the sun whose face is light, now and forever. Dark shadows pierce the bright areas of sunlit stone – weeping black tears of dark wine of evil and despair. The light is greater than the darkness. Primordial words shout from the darkness. The white need not explain its existence as it will conquer in eternity. Creation was a deeply thoughtful force. Attending all Creation is the god of light. Beyond these antithetical powers flows time, realizing nothing.

His style of work is Modern abstract ( Lasha works in stone , wood and bronze.) his accomplishments in art, both international and in the United

International Exhibits

1995 Group Show-Avant Garde Fashion Assembly-Republic of Georgia

1995 Group Show-National Gallery-Republic of Georgia

1996-1997 Group Show-Modern Art Gallery-Republic of Georgia

1997 Personal Show-Gallery Hobby-Republic of Georgia

1998 Group Outdoor Show-National Sculptor Symposium-Republic of Georgia

1998 Group Show-Malaga Spain

1998 Group Show-Munich Germany

Exhibits within the United States

2000 Personal Show-Bronze Studio-Stanley NC

2000 Group Show-Art One Gallery-Gastonia, NC

2000 Group Show-Tri-State Competition-Washington, DC

2001 Personal Show-Tyson Executive Center-Fairfax, VA

2001 Group Show-Sculptor in the Park-Loveland, CO

2001 Persona Show-Georgia American Business Council-Washington, DC

2002 Group Show-Florence Art Museum-Florence, SC

2002 Personal Show-Picture House Gallery-Charlotte, NC

2004 Group Show-Art Festival in the Park-Charlotte, NC

2004 Group Show-Antique Gallery-Charlotte, NC

2005 Spring Group show-South park Art Gallery-Charlotte, NC

2005 Persona Show-Tyson Executive Art Center two-Fairfax, VA

2005 Group Show-Washington Square

(Washington Sculptor Group)-Washington, DC

2006 Group Show-Diverse Works Exhibition (South Park)-Charlotte, NC

2006 Group Show- exhibition of Contemporary Art (South Park)-Charlotte, NC

2006 Group Show-Design House International-Lake Norman, NC

2007 Group Show-Picture House Gallery-Charlotte, NC

2008 Group Show-Lurie Gallery-Miami, FL

2008-2009 Represented by Elder Art Gallery-Charlotte, NC

2009 Represented by Regina Nussle Gallery-Miami, FL

Haute Couture Collection/Paris

It's MAGIC !

Floating lightness of a setting sun (SOGNI Orange),
Reflections of real and unreal images (SOGNI Mirror),
Profundity of a black lacquer (SOGNI Black),
Delusive intangibility of the entirely transparent version (SOGNI Crystal).
The materials are mirror, transparent and coloured polycarbonates, each version gives a very surprising and different rendering...
Each model has its own essential design, terse and resolutely in style.

Below the REF "CLEOPATRE", "ALADIN and "VENDOME', from the HAUTE COUTURE COLLECTION.


CLEOPATRE

ALADIN

SOGNI STRAW

This above photograph displays the straw marquetery tiebacks ref: "SOGNI Straw Marq', it is made in collaboration with the "Best Craftsman" of this technique in France. (like the 'LIVING TREASURES" of Japan honored for their preservations of ancient arts). When the best "Ouvrier de France" (best craftsman) in Straw Marquetrie demonstrates his love for the matter, she allows us to witness the birth of a brand new challenge, an unprecedented demand for quality, and an implementation of the French Savoir Faire. She applies the same tehniques as wood marqueterie to rye straw, a French XVIIth Century tradition and incorporated her design into numbers of cases, chests, boxes and nice pieces of furniture.

VENDOME

REMY LEMOINE ask Serge OLIVARES to dress his refined tie backs with his fabrics, accessories and ornaments.
The result is the.... HAUTE CUTURE collection of Tiebacks : Bright color velvets, Fur, feathers, ancient embroideries on silk, stones, crown of strass, embroideries, haberdasheries, hot pink braids? poetry of shades of anis green or aquamarine?.“


Featured Collection /Designer
REMY LEMOINE



Remy had the pleasure to exibit in the space designed by JANNA BULLOCK for Art, Architecture, and Design during The "2009 HAMPTON DESIGNERS SHOWHOUSE /NY" .
Will be displayed : the straw Tiebacks « SPIRA SPE » and the wrought iron curtain hanger « PORAM ».
This year's showhouse is located at :
179 David's Lane
Water Mill, NY.
From July 26 to September 6

Hampton Designers showcase


REMY LEMOINE PASSEMENTERIE D'ART/ PARIS 09 65 31 81 52
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As the other tiebacks in Remy's collection, he will rework the design with the craftsmen according to the design/decoration and wishes of the interior designer to integrate the design and color palette to their individual specifications. Creating a lovely design addition and great conversational piece to their custom decor.