Monthly archives:October 2009

Luxurious New W Hollywood Residences

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The W Residences project in Hollywood broke ground in February of 2007 and the project will be completed next month. The residential building borders one of the most famous blocks in Hollywood, located on Hollywood Boulevard, between Vine and Argyle, and is right across the street from the Pantages Theater. The project was funded by Gatehouse Capital and HEI[...]

Personalized Design for Apartment Living

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The Avalon Towers on the Peninsula are luxurious apartments located in Mountain View, CA. The Mountain View apartments offer one, two, and three bedroom floor plans, all of which are ready for personalized design. Decorating your apartment will depend on personal style, as well as the style of the surrounding area. The Avalon apartments in Mountain View are[...]

Updated Joseph Eichler Kitchens

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Joseph Eichler was a post-war merchant builder who embraced the principles of modernism in an effort to provide progressive and affordable housing to middle income families.  From the late 1940s to the late 1960s, Eichler built 11,000 homes, the majority in Northern California. With glass walls, post-and-beam construction, open floor plans, skylights and flo[...]

Dell Now Produces Designer Laptops

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If your laptop has been lacking in the "style" department, then this new "Designer Studio" line of Dell laptops might just be the stylish computing power you need. While the designers themselves have nothing to do with the actual circuit boards and processors of the laptops, the external (case or cover) designs have been created entirely by a number of hip, [...]

PLACE HO-- USES – Residential Kits and Prefab Home Services

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The Seattle-based PLACE HO-- USES is an architectural group that sells private residential kits or prefab homes in four sizes. Their homes are smart, affordable and green and the entire process typically takes less than a year. If you are looking for a McMansion then forget about PLACE HO-- USES as the sizes come in Tiny with a 935 sq ft living space + 218 [...]

New Traditional Style - Darryl Carter

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Interior Designer Darryl Carter (www.DarrylCarter.com ) devoted an entire book to the concept of new traditional, and has thus sparked a design revolution. Gone are the days of defining traditional as simply matching furniture sets, heavy layers of window treatments, plenty of accessories and lots of patterns. Traditional, as we know it, has evolved to incl[...]

New Contemporary Collection of Bath Products by MGS

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Faucets in solid stainless steel with simple silhouettes make for a contemporary spa retreat. In contemporary design, less is more. This is the philosophy leading faucet and fixture manufacturer MGS had in mind when designing their new Minimal Beauty Collection. Featuring simple shapes and slim silhouettes, all crafted from true solid stainless steel, thi[...]

Troy Adams Kitchen Before & After

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Designer Troy Adams has designed numerous kitchens in his career, but his own kitchen's transformation is equally impressive with the way he took a relatively small space and transformed it into a beautiful, functional space. Here are some before and after pictures of his home's kitchen in West Hollywood where he incorporated his open plan design, storage pr[...]

The New Design of the Office Chair

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This past Sunday I was watching Sunday Morning on CBS when they had a very interesting story on office chairs, and how the office hierarchy used to be determined by the different chairs that people were sitting in. (View the whole story here: Please Be Seated - Daniel Sieberg takes a look at the new generation of office chairs that are threatening to usurp t[...]

Architect Profile - Benedetta Tagliabue

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One architect who has created amazing works with and without her famous husband is Benedetta Tagliabue. Being married to the famous architect Enric Miralles, who she met while living in New York, and working at the Miralles studio, the Miralles-Tagliabue-EMBT, Benedetta worked side by side with Enric until his untimely death in 2000. Since his passing, she[...]