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The Winners of ASID Austin's 27th Annual Design Excellence Awards Ceremony
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The ASID Austin Design Community held its 27th Annual Design Excellence Awards ceremony on November 7, at Abel's on the Lake. Austin's premiere design community joined in to celebrate creativity, innovation, and achievement in interior design. The evening’s festivities began with a fajita bar, cocktails, and a photo booth.
Designers viewed and experienced new products from 22 vendors including, Dorado Stone Distributors, Anchor Ventana, Cosentino, Legen Lighting, BMC, Crossville Tile & Stone, Daltile, Decorum Architectural Stone, High Tech Flooring and Design, Kravet/Lee Jofa, Stockton Hicks Laffey, Stone SOlutions, Travis Tile, Kingwood Fine Cabinetry, Architectural Tile & Stone, Austin Stone Works, Exteriors Designer Showroom, Sherle Wagner Intl, Sunsational Solutions, Texas Sun & Shade, and Tufenkian Artisan Carpets.
Durango Doors is statewide with stores in DFW, Austin, and Houston. An architectural boutique that encompasses wrought iron doors and gates; MILLENIUM steel windows and doors; stair railings and iron forgings; Loewen wood windows and doors (loewen.com); gas and electric lanterns; venthoods, exterior bi-fold and pocket door system.
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Slocum Street Style 2012 Another Success
Slocum Street Style 2012 was once again a great success. Yesterday evening, Slocum Street brimmed with design enthusiasts and curious others strolling along leisurely from showroom to showroom in the twilight of the evening. Each showroom was full of the bustle of lively conversation.
The spread at McGannon Showrooms
They helped soothe the growl of people’s stomachs by serving light bites and drinks. Also featured in each showroom were individual raffle prizes for people in attendance. For those with bigger appetites, there were food trucks located on a few street corners filled with the smells of mouth-watering food.
The Kitchen Source had chefs from Subzero whip up some scrumptious tex mex finger foods for guests.
Repousse
Today, Iron Age Studios is talking with Design Guide about repousse. No, it is not a French dessert. Repousse is a metalworking technique, in which metal, usually brass or copper, is hammered from the reverse side to create a raised design on the front.
Iron Age Studios uses this technique on chandeliers, doors, furniture, railing elements, etc. Often they use repousse to create scenes and illustrations of various designs or animal forms. This metalworking technique is becoming a lost art form amongst designers in the U.S.
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New Braunfels Downtown Design District Hosts Premiere Downtown Design Stroll
New Braunfels Downtown Design District is excited to announce their first ever downtown design stroll! It will be held Thursday, September 20, and the third Thursday of every month from 5 - 9 p.m.; so don't despair if you can't make it to this one. All seven shops will be open later hours for these events and each will have their own separate events and happenings. This downtown design stroll is not only a premiere event, it marks the grand opening of Adele Kerr & Company's showroom!
Pucker Up for Design Guide at Metrocon12 with a splash of McGannon Showrooms
Come by and see us today and tomorrow at Dallas Market Hall at booth 313! Thank you, McGannon Showrooms for such an exquisitely designed booth. We've gotten so many compliments. Great to be among a plethora of talented and wonderful design professionals at Metrocon12.
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Today, we featured the talented lip print reader, Kathyrn of Pucker Up, who told people their all-around personalities and what tastes and desires they had. What a fabulous time!
Metrocon12: Who's Coming?
METROCON12 is the largest design-related regional expo and conference in the USA. The premier two-day event will take place at Dallas Market Hall [2200 Stemmons Freeway] on Thursday, August 9 and Friday, August 10, 2012.
METROCON is a resourceful alliance: a tradeshow and convention organized through landmark volunteer collaboration between the Texas Chapter of ASID [American Society of Interior Designers] and the Texas / Oklahoma Chapter of IIDA [International Interior Design Association]. In a determined effort to strengthen the design community, these two organizations have joined forces and pooled resources to offer the best in exhibitors and continuing education to their members and beyond.
METROCON focuses on introducing the latest in products and innovative ideas to the Southwest region’s community of interior designers, architects, design students and other essential industry members.
Mirror, Mirror....How Should I Display You On My Wall?
There's that saying that goes something like this: "We don't know a good thing until its gone." I'm sure you've had that moment when you've been out and about and you were frantically looking for a mirror of some sort or realized you didn't have a pocket mirror in your purse. In that moment you swore to yourself you'd never be without one again (if you're a woman) and you really appreciated the beauty and functionality of a mirror because it shows you if clothes, hair or makeup is askew. As a homeowner or designer, mirrors are wonderful decor pieces and create more openness in a space.
Why have just one main mirror in a room? Juggle things up and place mirrors of different sizes, shapes and colored frames in a fun collage on a wall among other frames or decor.
