May 21, 2012

Tone it Up: Oggetti’s Cascade Pendant Series


Modernist stalwart Oggetti added the Cascade pendant series to its Oggetti Luce division, a colorful configuration of mouth-blown Venetian glass.

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Milo Baughman originally presented the design for his Scoop chair to Thayer Coggin in 1953. It reentered the line this spring as part of the Design Classics series, a bit taller than the original, now sporting fire-engine-red leather.

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Century celebrated its 65th anniversary with the rebirth of Chin Hua, its wildly popular, Asian-spiced collection from 1975. But the effects of the launch were obvious even on existing collections, such as the new malachite finish gracing a chest from the Consulate series.

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The color-blocked Bamboo area rug by Global Views seems modernly Mondrian, but is actually part of the company’s licensed line with Colonial Williamsburg.

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Glass master SkLo unveiled its first lighting collection, including the hand-blown Float lamp, by the husband-and-wife team of Karen Gilbert and Paul Pavlak, partners with Pavel Hanousek in the Northern California collaborative.

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Who says cabinetmakers can’t have a sense of humor? French Heritage assembles a crazy quilt of mismatched colors, drawer fronts and hardware in the Cadenet bookcase.

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Rasa Home touted Dish, a new collaboration with Diva USA that resulted in a flavorful selection of decorative pillows.

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The ground steel frame of the Colored Windows mirror by Nova is fitted with multicolored fragments of tinted glass.

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