Cheers to new beginnings
– and to glamour in the garden.
Soon we will be
lustily shoving our hands into the earth, planting, sitting outdoors, listening
to the birds and the breezes whispering to us.
What will this
year’s garden design trends? What will
your “garden rooms” wear?
To better
answer the garden design queries – and for unparalleled inspiration to create an arcadian outdoor
lifestyle, I’m off to the queen of all design shows.
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| D’Apostrophe Renson design |
Today marks the
13th annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show – March 20–23 at Pier 94 in
New York City. #ADHDS2014
It’s press
preview day – we start with “Marys & Mimosas!” then lots of sneak peaks, guided
tours, and interviews with designers and makers.
The show is a
platform for inspiring new ideas in the home design and luxury market.
Open to
consumers and trade starting tomorrow, Saturday, visitors can expect to find
innovative designs for indoors and out, including furniture, accessories, art,
kitchen and bath products, carpet, stone and tile, lighting, and more.
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| Kalamazoo outdoor pizza oven |
The 2014 line
up includes a well-balanced mix of returning exhibitors and emerging brands.
I have my prepared schedule all ready of those
designers and makers I want to see.
An equally rich
seminar series complements the fresh crop of offerings. Held in the Jenn-Air
Master Class Studio, the roster includes industry influencers, top tastemakers,
and design-world luminaries such as Jamie Drake, Campion Platt, Mario Buatta,
Alexa Hampton, Kati Curtis and Stephen Fanuka.
Show
Highlights Include:
I am very keen
to check this out: The reFRESH pavilion, a central place for kitchen,
bath, and building products manufacturers to reveal their latest advancements.
The show-within-the-show will include new products from more than 100 premier
kitchen and bath brands, plus culinary demonstrations and tastings by top
chefs. A curated selection of limited-edition, one-of-a-kind fine art,
furnishings, photography, and lighting as well as today’s top young design
talents in the MADE section, almost half of which hail from New York.
and Thermador will be at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show to preview
their newest appliances. Earlier this month, Bosch announced an entirely new
kitchen line (available in April) that will set a new benchmark in kitchen
design, while Thermador unveiled two new surface cooking products that feature
industry-leading design: the Professional Grill (available in August) and the
trimless Freedom Induction Cooktop (available in April).
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| Bosch |
showcase of its kind in North America, reFRESH has become the largest
collection of luxury and premium kitchen, bath, and building products from more
than 100 companies. Experience new innovations and product launches in
categories such as ovens, ranges, cooktops, ventilation, bath and decorative
hardware, cabinetry, countertops, stone, tile, flooring, windows and doors, and
more.
A Furniture
+ Furnishings section showcasing a wide range of contemporary and classic
furniture, lighting, carpets, decorative arts, textiles and more.
This too will also
be a must-see: A new Outdoor Pavilion featuring product demonstrations
and curated lounge spaces from leading brands including Sunbrella, Royal
Botania, Renson, Caliber, Stuv and American Range and Pennoyer & Newman – one of my most favorite urn and container makers.
The Jenn-Air
Master Class Studio—the show’s theater—featuring exclusive programming by Architectural
Digest and the New York Times, including trade seminars programmed
by Architectural Digest, a keynote presentation by Architectural
Digest Editor in Chief Margaret Russell, and a three-day New York Times Designer
Seminar Series.
The debut of
the Shops at ADHDS where products from Cire Trudon, The Cooper-Hewitt
Museum Shop, DwellStudios + All Modern, Christophe Pourney, The American Design
Club and more are available for immediate purchase.
The launch of ASID
Designer Walks – a series of tours (Friday-Sunday 11:30AM, 1:30PM, 3:30PM)
led by a highly acclaimed interior designer who will share their insights,
expertise, favorite finds, and tricks of the trade as they walk the show floor,
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| Satori Japan |
An increased
international presence, including exhibitors from Italy, Spain, Belgium, New
Zealand, and the UK, to name a few.
Finally, after
looking under every new kitchen sink or outdoor pizza oven, trying out the
integrity of garden furniture and gauging the plant practicality of the new
urns and containers, it will be time for refreshments!
Cocktails,
happy hours, culinary demonstrations and tastings throughout the show floor.
More than 45 incredibly designed, over-the-top, and inspiring table
installations at DIFFA’s DINING BY DESIGN NY
These juried galleries feature the stunning work of
more than 150 artists and designers–more than half of them exhibiting for the
first time. Local and emerging artisans alongside international studios are
showing the newest in original art, tablescapes, ceramics, glass, fine furniture, sculpture,
textiles, and lighting. Shop MADE to find work that, in many cases, is not
available elsewhere.
For more show
information and to get tickets to the Architectural Digest Home Show:
http://adhomedesignshow.com
Stay tuned – I’ll be reporting throughout the day on
Twitter @GardenGlamour and later here and on Pinterest.
Stop and “smell” the crocus and snowdrops today! At least thrill to their drifts…
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