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News Flash! West Elm Now Offering Custom Upholstery

Did you know that West Elm now offers special order upholstery? In a great move, the company is now offering 26 stylish new upholstery options for customers to choose from to create a sofa or sectional with a totally custom look! It takes 6-8 weeks for these special orders to deliver and you can also order swatches so you can see and feel them in person before deciding on the perfect fabric. This means you’ll be able to take this perfectly fine but kinda boring beige sofa:

And transform it into any of these far more vibrant options:



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The Source of the Beautiful Props Revealed!

I received quite a few inquiries about the source of the gorgeous French furniture featured in my previous post.  All of the furnishings we use for our photo shoots at work are rented and I asked the prop stylist where he found the pieces used for this particular shoot. His response: “a bunch of antique stores on the Upper East Side and some of the stuff is from Antony Todd.” Sort of a vague answer and I didn’t want to probe since I was neglecting my responsibility of managing behind-the-scenes interviews to ogle over the furniture! Afterward I did …

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The T Chair…A True Design Classic

When I was at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show a couple of months ago I came across these gorgeous leather sling chairs that really stood out to me. Kind of sexy, right? After a bit of research I learned that these beautiful chairs were designed by William Katavolos in 1952 as part of the “New Furniture” collection for Laverne. Often referred to as the “T chair” because of it’s T shaped frame and leather sling seat, these chairs are truly a twentieth century design classic. In fact, they’re housed in the permanent collections of the MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum …