Hot off the press in the furniture world this week.

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Pantone Color Institute unveiled its 2016 trend forecast for interiors. The nine palettes are

  1. Natural Forms (think rosy clay and sheepskin beige)
  2. Dichotomy (opposites attract  – pair silver metallic, sunny yellow and bright cobalt blue)
  3. Ephemera (blends delicate shades of wan blue, pale peach and tender yellow)
  4. Lineage (shades of navy, black, tan and regimental green co-mingle)
  5. Soft Focus (smoky tones)
  6. Bijoux (drama and intensity across jewel tones)
  7. Merriment (vibrant greens and yellows contrasted with pinks and oranges)
  8. Footloose (vacation-destination blues and blue-greens)
  9. Mixed Bag (eclectic patterns and prints, with exciting and unique colors like pirate black and mandarin red as well as violet and florid orange)

We can hardly wait to see their color of the year pick!

 

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For the first time since 2008, Canadian furniture store sales past the C$10 billion mark in 2014.  Go Canada!  We’re pumped to be able to ship our products for $1 duties included right across the country.

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We’re pumped one of our suppliers Safavieh has begun shipping its proprietary line of mattresses. These ultra-comfortable spring-coiled mattresses ooze quality.  Even cooler however is that their Dream Tech technology allows the product to be rolled up in a small, shippable size for doorstep delivery and can fit in the trunk of car!!!!  Priced from $200-$700 USD and with encased tempered steel coils, box top design and a MemorySoft foam top it’s easy and affordable to get a good night sleep.  Ask a Stylist for details.

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Shoutout to former fab.com guru Bradford Shellhamer for his piece directed at independent product designers.  His rendition of “You’re a design entrepreneur, not a designer” is nothing short of brilliant and we so look forward to the day when that sentiment takes hold in the design world.  If you haven’t signed up for his new company Bezar yet get on it.

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Monaco’s Fashion for Floor has launched a retail location in Paris’ St Germain-des-Prés.  Founded by Alexander Moghadam, the company was named official supplier to the Palace of Monaco by HSH Prince Albert II. Now run by his son Kamyar Moghadam who trained at Parsons New York with Tom Ford, this manager of resolutely fashionable fibers has breathed new sensitivity to the collections, presented and installed in situ soil with a “room service” that is highly personalized.  Worth a drop in a la France.

 Miss last week’s roundup?  Catch it here