Interior and design

When Gerry Duprey bought his 1928 craftsman home at the corner of Pauline Boulevard and Hutchins Avenue in Ann Arbor, he wasn't looking for a new obsession.
Instead, he wanted an affordable house close to his work. That it was adjacent to Allmendinger Park was a bonus. The exterior was wrapped in blue and white aluminum siding, and the inside was dominated by pink paint and white carpet.
"It looked like a birthday cake," Duprey said. But that Read more...

Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The sale of
’s art
collection set records for a second night in Paris as a leather
armchair fetched 21.9 million euros ($28 million), the most for
a work of 20th-century design at auction. The buyer was the
dealer who sold it to the French designer in the early 1970s.
From the front rows of the saleroom, Cheska Vallois offered
bids of 500,000 euros each for the so-called “dragons”
armchair made by French designer Eileen Read more...

Pricing for the Cube will range from the previously announced $14,685 (including $695 Destination and Handling charge) for the base model up to $20,065 for the special
. The base model is available only with a six-speed manual transmission, while the next trim level, the Cube 1.8 S, can be fitted with either the manual 'box or Nissan's Xtronic CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) and will start at $15,385 and $16,385, respectively. The S Read more...

-February 24, 2009
Members of the new union design committee met Monday to hear architects’ plans for second-level interior designs.
Architects for the new south campus union revealed approved designs for a portion of the second-level interior to the design committee at a meeting Monday.
According to Dan Cornelius, vice project manager for facilities planning, the interiors have been part of a process the committee has been working on Read more...

It's nice to hear, "You don't have to spend a lot of money to have a nice home."
Especially when that advice comes from Joe Ruggiero, an interior designer who produces and hosts programs for HGTV, was chief design consultant to the PBS series This Old House, and spent two years as design correspondent on ABC-TVs Good Morning America.
But you might think, "Easy for him to say."
That's why Ruggiero not only preaches that it's possible to have Read more...

Only a day away from the commencement of the 4-day culinary and wine extravaganza at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, the foodie industry and media are a-buzz as they await the highly-anticipated opening ceremony under the Wines of Spain tent. As the preferred decor and production vendor for the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival, The Design Group (TDG) Miami have prepared a vibrant, sophisticated look for the Wines from Read more...

The first thing to keep in mind is to understand present use. I have observed time and again how innovative architecture can often be ineffective when not in accord with either the curriculum or the teachers. This can happen when the architectural design isn’t conducive to teaching or learning. This can also happen when the teachers’ ideas of educational delivery are either too traditional for them to appreciate, be comfortable with, or even use Read more...

The super budget hotel group, easyHotel is raising the bar when it comes to comfort and convenience with the launch of a new bedroom design to maximise its customer experience, whilst preserving the brand’s ‘no frills’ ethos.
Using customer and franchisee feedback as well as competitor analysis, easyHotel has teamed up with award-winning London architects, ZMMA, to create a simple, yet stylish and functional, bedroom space for cost-conscious Read more...

University Place, a five-story, group-living building designed by William Wilson Architects PC has been approved by the Portland Design Commission.
Owned by the Housing Authority of Portland, University Place would be constructed at the corner of Southwest 13th Avenue and Southwest Clay Street and would serve as transitional housing for homeless and at-risk groups. An existing three-story apartment building at the site, the 1908 Luxor apartments, Read more...

There is life beyond the mall.
Siskiyou Artisans, which last month left the Rogue Valley Mall after nearly a decade, has resurfaced at Larson's Home Furnishings in downtown Medford.
Siskiyou Artisans's reappearance gives regional artists and crafters a significant retail presence while filling a gap for the ever-changing Larson's.
The 1,500-square-foot gallery will be on the mezzanine. Raquel Seibert, who operated the mall store with her husband, Read more...