October 20th, 2011 by jennifermyers
With the holidays approaching, you should be thinking about your entertainment plans. Are you going to a family member’s home for Thanksgiving, or have you been invited to a holiday party? Or perhaps you’re like us, and you are in the process of putting together the party of the year?
And if you are organizing Orange County’s premiere party (even if it’s a small gathering at your home or office), you need to pull out all the stops and look at every detail. And that’s why we are looking at chairs for the dining room this week.
We’re also putting our new Assistant Designer on the spot this week with her list of favorite chairs and why. We’d like to introduce Ali Bacon, who recently joined the LRM team! Welcome! (read the rest of this post…)
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June 13th, 2010 by jennifermyers
Henry Road uses their Fleur Grande fabric on the front of this chair...
At LRM Interior Design, we get inspired by a lot of things. But we really love up-and-coming companies that inspire us with their creativity and innovation.
Take Henry Road, a textile studio in Studio City, California, just up north from us here in Orange County. They design beautiful, bold and modern patterns for textiles that look stunning on all types of furniture, from chairs to sofas to footstools.Their patterns look amazing on more than just furniture, as we found with their Gloria tablecloths and Havana tote. Let’s not even start on their adorable storage sacks for kids.
...and a coffee sack to upholster the back.
Or shall we? This is where Henry Road’s real inspiration comes through. In many cases, as shown by the storage sacks and with items of furniture, Henry Road owner Paula Smail combines her large-print textiles with coffee sacks. We love this combination of texture and re-use, especially in the occasional chair covered in Paula’s Fleur Grande pattern on the front and coffee sacking on the back.
They’ve also covered church benches, footrests and cubes in coffee sacks, and according to their website, they’re pretty popular–almost all of their furniture has been sold.
Paula Smail seems like a person who is as interesting and enterprising as her designs. She spent part of her childhood in South Africa, in a house on Henry Road. It was the Marimekko blinds in that home, plus seeing the African women swathed in bright fabrics, that has shaped her design aesthetic.
We can’t wait to see what she does next! In the meantime, check out Henry Road’s collection of unusual accessories and home goods. And if you’re in Los Angeles, you may just want to stop by and peruse the intriguing items in her shop that are not available online.
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March 20th, 2010 by jennifermyers
Lesley Anton Ceramics
There’s a few things that people don’t know about Lisa McDennon, and one of them is that she designed an entire room around a Lesley Anton lamp. The Lesley Anton “Lotus” lamp, to be exact, and the room is much, much larger than the lamp, with a vaulted ceiling and windows that stretch from the floor to the roof. But it was the lamp that got Lisa’s notice, and the cool green color of its ceramic base, which she used as a basis for the room’s colorways.
Lisa's design inspiration: the Lesley Anton Lotus table lamp
Now Lisa’s excited that Lesley Anton has started selling ceramic bowls and plates in her distinctive glazes. There’s even a plate that matches her favorite lamp, with the textured relief of the lotus root pattern.
Lesley Anton’s ceramics are handthrown, and available for purchase through her shop in Los Angeles. On the website, you can get a taste of the type of items that Lesley Anton’s shop carries. Every piece is handthrown porcelain and stoneware, and can you believe that it is microwave and dishwasher safe? This means that you can actually use these amazingly unique pieces every day.
Lisa likes the fact that Lesley Anton will take custom orders, and looks forward to creating a signature piece for a future project…perhaps another lamp to base an entire room design on? It’s always a surprise to find where inspiration springs from.
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February 11th, 2010 by jennifermyers
The Castel chair's fretwork on its back is elegant and contemporary.
Everyone at LRM Interior Design is loving the Jacques Garcia Collection from Baker Furniture, especially Lisa McDennon and Kari Seydewitz.
“The lines of this collection are so clean, yet fresh and contemporary,” says Lisa McDennon, principal of LRMID. “I love the curves and detailing on the Saint-Tropez cocktail table and the Madrague lamp table.”
The Baker company has been making fine furniture since the 1920s, creating pieces that are “fashionable, collectible and superbly crafted in the Old World way,” as Baker puts it. Not one to rest on the laurels of their reputation, Baker has brought Jacques Garcia Collection to the United States in 2004. (read the rest of this post…)
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