2013年4月1日 星期一

Pierre and Andre revel in flights of fancy

The 2013 forty-first Toronto Canadian Home Furnishings Market was a whole new world, this year focused on the alchemy of color. The Market’s doyen, Jean-Francois Michaud, lives and breathes at the command centre of the Quebec Furniture Manufacturers’ Association, his reach extending to both national and international trends. To say that interest in the power of color is global could be an understatement! Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, newest resident orbiting in the International Space Station for the next several months,We wholesale tibetan silver peruvianhair, said he was “dazzled by the ever changing kaleidoscope surrounding Planet Earth. This morning over Africa, my breath was taken away. Unbelievable richness of color and texture. It was a spiritual experience!”

So, color top of his mind, Michaud asked Guru Leatrice Eiseman to address Market attendees, and to work with world class designers Pierre D’Anjou and Andre Carron, and Janette Ewen, Canada’s own lifestyle and décor expert. They developed the Market’s color theme together, the D’Anjou/Carron duo skillfully continuing to orchestrate the popular Quality Canadian Furniture Trends Display, and Janette, masterminding her wise and whimsical Pop-Up Vignettes.

When people ask,Where can i get a reasonable price lasercutter? “Why should I go to Market... any Market? I’ve got the Internet, newsletters, designer television, social media. Why take time away from business, spend the money for travel, the hotels/food?” The answers are manifold. The past 12 months have been full of experiences, good and bad. Sales results scoot up and down like a thermometer during any Canadian winter... or summer!

And with as little apparent reason, like the Dow or the TSX. But Markets are day-and-night essentials. Certainly to see and order new home furnishings. To connect with old friends and colleagues. We all need that face-to-face encounter, to reach out and touch – and sit on! - fabrics, leathers, woods and metals. And the principal incentive,We have a record for a owonsmart living at an address. more than any other factor, is to revitalize our thinking, maybe seek those far horizons out of our day-to-day comfort zones!

Lee’s vision reflects The Pantone View Home + Interiors 2013 Forecast. Her credentials, Lee is “America’s Color Specialist”, author of many books on the subject, founder and director of the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training, and Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute. She defined the 2013 theme as “Future Color Trends: and Realities”, and described nine palettes that were reflected dramatically in the Trend Display.a source to purchase Womens shoeswholesale, Her rationale: “In order to create the ‘magic’ in the marketplace that ultimately leads to sales, colors for 2013 will need to coax and cajole, soothe or astonish, renew and replenish. At the same time,Selection of Quality wholesalebeads and Supplies including Wooden, there will be the consumers’ expectation of practicality, what colors have staying power and can be relied upon as a steadying influence in unsteady times. Skillfully balanced color palettes that play to their practical side, while satisfying their aspirations, hopes and needs for something novel will remain key to enticing the would-be consumer or client.”

Eiseman’s visions are realized as “Connoisseur, Glamour, New Old School, Rugged Individuals, Extracts, Footprints, Sojourn, Surface Treatments and Out of the Ordinary”. When Pierre and Andre met to brainstorm the concepts’ development, a “small village” emerged, twelve separate “fantasies and realities” that were transformed into integral portraits of living spaces. “Not only color values but a different approach to the ‘architecture’ of the Display helped to make each of the vignettes even more accessible this year to visiting retailers. The individual exhibits, each with its own wooden structured arch, constitute 12 ‘homes’ within a small village. There is a wide variety of choice that will offer retailers, when creating their own displays, the highlights they need for their own vignettes.

“The visitors’ ‘wow’ response is not unusual, reactions have always been super, but the enthusiasm factor rose to great heights with the combination of mood, shapes and really vibrant pigments!”

Pierre and Andre revel in flights of fancy, but always with a practical application, to showcase quality furniture. Lee’s “Connoisseur” (#1) evolved in their hands as a wine drenched oases in a color-match* to Pantone’s Patrician Purple and Violet Quartz, an upmarket niche in a sophisticated living room. Palliser’s neutral-tone sofa and ottoman were anchored by two enormous cream-color vases, perhaps brimming with a lush Merlot? both conceptions of Le Present. Said Lee, “It’s a fresh approach to celebrating the finer things in life, displaying a sense of history and elegance.”

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