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House & Home Roundup 12.20.07

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South African textile designer Ronel Jordaan's recycled-wood benches with elaborate felt cushions will soon be available at twenty Anthropologie stores (two designs per store). The felting business employs local tribeswomen.

 
 

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The Carlyle hotel’s new Empire Suite, a Deco-inspired duplex, is available for $15,000 a night.

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Osage County plates, conceived by Barbara Jakobson, combine the Oklahoma photographs of Grant McClintock and a set of six porcelain dishes.

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Michelle Brand's Cascade chandelier made from used plastic soda bottles.

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David Oliver's new book Paint and Paper in Decoration inspires with elaborate papers and bold colors.

(Pics: Jean-Christian Bourcart, Todd Eberle, Lars Klove, Jake Guevara)

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I love the felt cushions -- would hate to sit on them and damage them! (squish, pill...)

posted by mschatelaine on 2007-12-21 10:15:48
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Doesn't the felted flower cushion look a lttle like a flower-strewn shroud?

posted by judy in TO on 2007-12-21 10:38:33
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