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Flos Lighting – 35% Discount – please contact Inform Seattle for more information.

Please contact Inform Seattle for more information.

Contact Inform Seattle for more information.

Ok, you can’t really sleep in the architectural icon, but you and seven of your best friends can have it to yourself for  a night. The actual accomodations are a smaller home near Bear Run Nature Reserve.

You are allowed to  walk to Fallingwater and explore the house on your own, join in a guided discussion about the house and its site, have dinner with curator Lynda Waggoner either on the terrace or in the living room and generally have art and architecture type discussions with unnamed special guests. After all, Fallingwater was designed as a vacation home, not a museum.

This architectural sleep-over starts at $1195 per person, double occupancy. Details at www.FallingWater.org.

A collection of indoor/outdoor furnishings, Framura is named for a small hillside town with a spectaular view of the gulf of Cinque Terre. The collection was introduced at Salone del Mobile 2009 by DePadova. Designed by the team of Silvia Suardi and Sezgin Aksu, the pieces are made from metal tubing, woven colored ribbons and cotton covered cushions. The feel is relaxed and fun, not at all fussy or serious. Options include extra pillows, different ribbon colors and white or silver finishes. You can find the Framura collection at SUITE New York.

Phil Smith of The Art Office felt honored to be tapped by fashion designer Trina Turk to create a space to house her new home accessories and furnishings line. “Considering the designers Trina’s used before on her projects, this was, indeed an honor.” Those designers have included Jonathan Adler and Kelly Wearstler.

But Smith brought his own brand of cool to the space. He elected to reinterpret her other stores in a gallery-like way – showcasing the Trina Turk designed objects. Each move highlights the Turk designs, from the lighted niches for the smaller pillows and accessories, to the vignettes for furnishings upholstered in Turk fabrics to the cash register-as-stage.  Everything is set against a white relief of a Trina Turk pattern and a white epoxy floor framed in a bright lemon yellow. Lighting below and from above provides a heightened sense of drama.

The Art Office is a multidisciplinary studio for art, architecture and design located in Indio, California.

This set of four black and white graphic bowls In The Mix by Not Neutral is a great way to liven up your dinner table. These are small bowls, just under 5 inches in diameter. The set of four is about $48.00 which makes them a great gift.

When I first saw Sod Otto awhile back, my first question was “…can you use it outside?”. I think Leslie Shapiro of 407 Furniture thought I was a little crazy – because I, like many others, have real grass outside, why would I need to import artificial sod? Maybe the real impetus behind Sod Otto was to bring the outdoors in, but I sort of like it the other way around as well, bring the virtual outdoors out. Well I am happy to report that Leslie did design both an indoor and outdoor version of Sod Otto. More and more I see artificial turf being installed in my neighborhood. I keep thinking about an outdoor space that sculpts seating and table surfaces into the landscape and then covers the whole thing with a really soft, tactile turf – how cool would that be?

Limn SF is offering great deals for stock and showroom samples from the finest European makers. Ceccotti, Cassina, Acerbis, Poltrona Frau, Living Divani, Flou, Montis, Arco, Alias, Molteni, Zanotta and Artelano just to name a few.