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Home decor essentials for Pantone Color of the Year
While most of us are trying to keep our head above water as we survive the holidays, Pantone is looking ahead — specifically to 2022 — by announcing the color of year. Dubbed “Very Peri,” the periwinkle-esque hue marks the first time the company has created a color from scratch rather than delving into its vast archive of options. “It was really important for us to come up with a new color, because we have a very new vision of the world now,” Pantone Color Institute’s executive director Leatrice Eiseman told CNN, adding, “It is literally the happiest and the warmest of all the blue hues.” Interior design experts coast…
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Best Art Books of 2021
In a lockdown year, with travel reduced, there was no movable feast quite like an art book. Art is made by all sorts of people, everywhere, all the time, along many different paths, some of which are illuminated by these intriguing publications chosen by our critics, Pay Per Touch. Holland Cotter’s Favorites ‘Ray Johnson c/o’ The maverick American artist Ray Johnson (1927-1995), who managed to be nowhere and everywhere in the art world through his invention of Mail Art, was lucky in his longtime friend William S. Wilson, to whom, over 60 years, he gave thousands of letters, collages, drawings and clippings. Wilson saved every last scrap, and a jampacked…
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With more time spent at home, homeowners research landscape design ideas to create spaces for outdoor living, Business News
Landscape improvements can create functional living spaces. With the Covid-19 pandemic, homeowners are researching landscaping design ideas to improve their yards and create liveable spaces. EDMONTON, Canada – December 5, 2021 /MarketersMEDIA/ — “Professional landscaping has tremendous value. It gets people outdoors and improves their lifestyle while spending time at home. It also boosts curb appeal and can increase property value,” said Keith Riley, Founder and CEO of RenovationFind.com and Design Landscaping by RenovationFind. Design Landscaping provides a valuable resource for homeowners looking for landscaping ideas and trends for their properties. Once they have a picture of the landscaping features and living spaces they want for their yard, they can…
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Inside Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Art Collection That Places a ‘Beautiful Black Face’ in Every Room of Their Home
Alicia Keys and her husband Swizz Beatz, whose real name is Keenan Dean, are one of entertainment’s hottest power couples. The pair are both heavily invested in music, and their synergy in creating long-lasting hits has solidified their names in the industry. Keys and Dean, who got married in 2010, share two children. The duo goes to great lengths to ensure their children see a bit of themselves in every part of the house. Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz ensure their children see a Black face in every room Keys recently sat down with Marie Claire to talk about her longstanding music career while giving the publication a tour of…
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Inside a Historic Marfa Home Transformed by AD100 Designers
Reflecting on Marfa in 1985, Donald Judd wrote: “The area of West Texas was fine, mostly high rangeland dropping to desert along the river, with mountains over the edge in every direction. There were few people and the land was undamaged.” Decades later, that spellbinding beauty and sense of exquisite isolation remain, albeit juxtaposed with the artist’s own legacy—the Judd Foundation (anchored by The Block, his former home) and the Chinati Foundation, the army base he transformed into a museum for contemporary art. Today’s Marfa is a contradiction: a tumbleweed town and an international pilgrimage site, where Judd’s visions of unified art and architecture reached their apotheosis. Timber bookshelves in…
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Kozhikode home attracts attention for its design brilliance, landscaping | Lifestyle Decor
The verdant lawns and the beautiful garden that perfectly complement the elegant structure is the highlight of Arun’s brand-new house at Chetttikulam in Kozhikode, Kerala. The minimal features of the house have been enhanced with practical designs and space-efficient elements. The elevation features the elegant, linear–box style. Fundermax wooden panelling and the show wall with rock claddings are incredibly attractive and grant more definition to the structure. The car porch, meanwhile, has been built-in GI frame with glass roof. The landscape has been designed by retaining most of the trees in the plot. Meanwhile, the unique layout of the plot, which lies in varying levels, too has been retained. Tandoor…
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