YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE!! JUST BULBS E. 60 ST. NYC

As the sign in the window says "even dim-wits know to come to this store" filled with over 26,000 light bulbs of every color, size, shape and many you'd never even imagine (strings of mini Ruby Red Slippers!) - -all available both to the trade and to everyone else.  You can't help but smile as you approach the front door and once past the threshold you'll break into a huge grin.  Lights, lights, lights everywhere!  It's carnival, it's festival it's fun!

homenowfinally: The Power of Purple

homenowfinally: The Power of Purple

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The Power of Purple

The Color Purple - Sometimes tabooed, sometimes trumpeted.  Well, it's back in full force!  Just open up September's Traditional Home for the evidence.  3 paint manufacturers are represented, all displaying this timely tone:  Glidden (Purple Periwinkle!), Sherwin-Williams and Valspar.  3 fabric houses are on this same wagon: Osborne & Little's stylized floral/paisley print on Roman shades and a bed,  Kravet's eye-catching full page advert and a Ralph Lauren / Brunschwig & Fils purple-blue & white Living Room. Obviously it's "Purple Haze - All Around"!

Time To Spend!

Yes, the Summer Sizzle has Started to Swing. Now's the perfect time to Burn a Hole In Your Pocket. There are Sales Everywhere, most often with Screaming Red Hot Signs. 

 

You Interior Designers (& clients going solo) be sure to check out 200 Lexington Avenue's 9th Floor featuring Victor's Sample Room for some Real Steals. Also Louis J. Solomon featuring Fine French Furniture. On 2 see Grange and Century for more Real Deals. Uptown at Oriental Lamp Shade you'll light up when you see their prices and selection during their annual July 4th Sale. You stay-at-homers will want to look at interiors catalog Frontgate for their Seasonal Savings. And the Container Store will hold it all together for you. Ready - Set - Shop! GLENN LAWSON INTERIOR DESIGN

ALL CUT UP

Or maybe one would say All Cut Out! I'm referring to the residential glass building growing up & up on the corner of 2nd Ave and 20th Street. In random spots the corners are scooped out; CLEARLY a gyp for some tenants!

NO SQUARES ALLOWED

PRADA STARTED IT TODAY WITH A WONDERFUL MULTI COLOR CHAIN-LINK MOTIF BAG, CURVES ALL IN SADDLE, REDS & BLUES. THEN CAME STUART WEITZMAN'S SHOWROOM DISPLAY WALLS; WOW! THE WHITE BENTWOOD SHOE SHELVES LOOKED LIKE WORLD'S FAIR '65 MEETS THE JETSONS. OVER, UNDER, SIDEWAYS & DOWN. LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST E.BRAUN'S CHANDELIER. A TERRIFIC IMAGINATIVE CUSTOM MANY-TIERED BEAUTY WHICH FROM ONE ANGLE LOOKS LIKE AN E!

ORANGE SUNSHINE

ORANGE AND PINK, PINK AND ORANGE, YES! SUMMER! HOW CAN SOMETHING SO HOT BE SOOOO COOL? (photos to follow)