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Feb 23, 2011

When Designer Robert Couturier Talks, Just Sit Down and Listen

While there is lots of discourse about the changing role of the interior designer, the DIY movement, and the accessibility of products via the web, there are a small number of designers at the top of the field who continue to work with the same principles they have embraced for years. These designers are [...]

Feb 9, 2011

AOL Shelterpop.com, Living Room Decorating Ideas: Contemporary

I am excited to announce that my video interviews are making a debut on AOL’s Shelterpop.com. You can see the Robin Wilson video here. Shelterpop recently interviewed me about contemporary design. The photo above was featured in the article on Shelterpop here.

Feb 4, 2011

Twenty2: Modern Graphics and Textured Walls

I love grasscloth wallpaper – it adds a warm, lived-in feeling to a room. The room above is in a NY apartment I designed in a fairly cold, modern building. Adding this grasscloth wallpaper was a simple way to work with a bold color, like chocolate brown, but kind of take the edge off in [...]

Feb 1, 2011

Amanda Nisbet in True Color

When I was starting Decorati, I did what any entrepreneur would do… I held a focus group. But, this is the design industry, so we had it at a chic NY restaurant over dinner. Guests included designer/showroom owner Dennis Miller, furniture designer Peter Mann, and interior designer Amanda Nisbet. I selected Amanda because I had interviewed her [...]

Feb 1, 2011

Robin Wilson’s 360 Degree Approach to Brand Building

As founder of Decorati, people often ask me about online marketing techniques for designers and manufacturers. In fact, I am speaking on the topic on Friday 2/4/11 at the San Francisco Design Center (Friday keynote panel, Sf Galleria, 10 AM, with Gilt Home, Gumps, and Luxury Marketing Council). You often hear marketers talking about “360 [...]

Feb 1, 2011

Jane Fonda on the Move

When I saw some news on Shelterpop that Jane Fonda’s Atlanta loft is up for sale, I was reminded of my brush with the Hollywood-and-livingroom-fitness goddess a couple of years ago. I was designing the apartment pictured above, which is one of New York’s most amazing penthouses with 13 foot ceilings and whole walls of windows across [...]

Jan 20, 2011

Lesley Anton Defines the Distinction Between “Custom-Made” and “Home Crafts”

I have been intrigued by the recent growth of interest in crafting. As much as people are becoming inseparable with their mobile devices and laptops, many are just as eager to pick up some yarn or beads and make stuff. Etsy.com is a great example of the craze, as it handled $400 million in sales [...]

Jan 16, 2011

Kati Curtis and Current Design Practices

In my view, we are just at the beginning of a wave of innovation around how interior design gets done – digitally. As founder of Decorati, it has been a fascinating experience watching the interior design industry go from hardly using email, to embracing the Decorati Design Advisors matching service, to creating designers like Kati [...]

Jan 10, 2011

Studio Bijoux: Young Entrepreneurs In Design

Out here in Silicon Valley, we have a long history of young founders creating the next big thing. But in the interior design world, things do not move that fast, and many young professionals are forced to spend their early years sorting fabric memos. Not so for the founders of Studio Bijoux. These two young [...]

Nov 2, 2010

Kravet iPhone App

Having seen the many ads for the Kravet i-Phone app on Decorati, I decided to check it out on my new iPad. The coolest part about this app is that it exists. When it comes to leveraging technology for the interior design trade, Kravet is always out front ahead of the pack. I remember not [...]