Design2Share Q&A Interior Design Podcast
Design2Share Q&A, the video podcast series that answers all your interior design related questions. Our co-hosts, Irwin Weiner and Ni...Video Episodes:
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10:01:25 04/23/12
Irwin Weiner Interiors in Spring 2012 New York Home Observer
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Irwin Weiner ASID - What a pleasure to be one of the featured designers in the latest issue of The Home Observer from the New York Observer! I love my clients' beautiful home, a great reflection of their energy, vitality, fun, and artistic natures. When an interior designer clicks with a client, magic can happen, and their space truly reflects their personalities. You can click on the e-version of The Home Observer below and use the page-find feature at the bottom of the screen to scroll over to pages 50-53 to see our feature story, "On a Pedestal."
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10:00:03 04/29/11
Austrian Artist Plunges Into Lighting and Furniture
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Irwin Weiner ASID - Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer makes a spectacle of himself - and that's in a good way. I like the moxie of any creative soul who makes daring and bold statements, then puts them out in public for all to see. And Kielnhofer puts them out there, such as performance art in public parks and plunking his ethereal Time Guardians/Light Guardians sculptures into different settings taken from movies, posing wounded angel models with the ghostly figures, and photographing them in settings all over the world - see slide show below. The artist just sent us photos of a new series of tables, lighting, and chairs - see above and below - that follow his fascination with tubes (he made his Interlux chair out of industrial cardboard tubes). I applaud the creative audacity that keeps artists and designers experimenting and challenging our comfort zones.
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12:43:40 03/03/11
Spring Planning: Plant an English Cottage Garden
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Jay Johnson - While our Design2Share interior design expert Irwin Weiner is away in Venice with a client, I'm keeping our daily video features going. Our editors and I found a great intro video covering the basics of planning an English cottage garden - more rambling, casual, fragrant, and colorful than typical North American plots. I'm a gardening nut - a weekend warrior - and embraced the cottage garden style seven years ago. Plants are closer together, they interact with hardscape like pergolas and trellises, they're grouped in massive clumps and bunches, and despite the casual and overrun look, they require good pruning and transplanting to keep plants healthy and blooming. Tom Cole from UK's Capel Manor College is your video tour guide, but also check out this article from The Guardian on cottage garden basics. Spring is coming; start planning now! Need gardening help from a professional this year? Watch our video on Hiring a Landscape Architect.
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12:39:41 11/24/10
Holiday Table Decor
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The soothing, calm, confident voice and decorating and gardening talents of P. Allen Smith make him the male equivalent of a M. Stewart. He brings us into his beautiful home, always with a roaring holiday fire in the background, and shows us something "quick and easy" that he just throws together. Perfectly. Without breaking a sweat. But far from hating the perfectionist final results, we can get some nifty tips from how he puts something together. Mr. Smith will sell you his holiday collection basic centerpiece (click on the link below) or you can use your own greenery and stick them in a florist clay base. Purchase a few skinny tin trays, fill them with water (put something underneath to protect your table surface from moisture and scratches), and set wet florist clay forms along the trays. This becomes the perfect medium for sticking in all the fresh greenery and other materials. Keep the clay and trays watered regularly and your greens should last a few weeks. Florist picks are also essential; wire them onto the end of ornaments and other items and stick them wherever you need along the centerpiece. Check out the P. Allen Smith holiday collection with Berry Family of Nurseries for instant fresh wreaths, garlands, and centerpieces.
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23:07:41 11/21/10
Rainer Mutsch's Dune
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This video is positively hypnotic. It captured our imagination because it's one of those rare examples of how the complete manufacturing cycle of a piece of furniture can be a fascinating and "Wish I could have thought of that!" process. Designer Rainer Mutsch created his Dune line of outdoor furniture from sheets of 100% recyclable fiber cement. The video shows how these panels are molded and transformed into seating.
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15:27:25 11/17/10
Thanksgiving Quick Decor
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Manhattan interior designer Irwin Weiner ASID usually celebrates the Thanksgiving holiday at his weekend home in Bucks County, PA. We filmed this video of some quick holiday decor ideas in his dining room. (We're getting excited about eating ourselves silly - we love the "eating holidays" - in a stylishly decorated space!
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18:31:28 11/16/10
Autumn Tabletop
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The Better Homes and Gardens folks have great experience bringing casual elegance to home functions. We enjoyed the easy, attractive tabletop ideas they put together for fall and Thanksgiving entertaining. This video features florist Amy Child Marella , putting together some quick and effective decor pieces to put everyone into a festive fall spirit.
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23:46:58 11/15/10
Salone del Mobile 2010
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The best and brightest stars of international furniture are always present and accounted for at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The following video presents some quick-shot highlights taken at the 2010 exhibition. Don't know about you, but we're still talking about the tufted hog seats and the dining chairs that contour the butt and legs. How well would those play in your home?
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01:42:39 11/13/10
Thanksgiving Turkey
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Sometimes the secret to cooking something you think is difficult is to do it simply. That's what Ina Garten - the Barefoot Contessa - espouses when she goes into her trademark Hamptons-style kitchen and prepares something beautiful using fresh, simple ingredients. In this Food Network video, you'll get inspiration on how to turn your kitchen into a fragrant Thanksgiving fantasy with the Contessa's sure-fire turkey recipe (we tried it two years ago and swear by it). Here's a handy list to different turkey selections from her cookbooks. Herb-Roasted Turkey Breast
Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That? Perfect Roast Turkey
The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook Roast Turkey with Truffle Butter Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That? Roasted Turkey Roulade
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
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11:45:20 11/11/10
Gothic Foyer
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Westport, CT is home to Catherine C. Cleare Interiors , and Catherine is an expert at making new things look old, like her eight-year-old Westport house. Join her in this video as she shows us her Gothic entryway and foyer, from the front door to her stunning floor stencil work - all part of the new construction home that her husband Steve Folb of ARS Partners built in collaboration with the designer. The photo above shows the John Rosselli Antiques showroom in NY's D%D building, and you'll find their Gothic sconces in Catherine's entry hall, too.
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12:03:29 11/10/10
Outdoor Space Design & Decorating
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There is a lot of interior design talent in the U.S., and every practitioner seems to have their own special style. Westport, CT is home to Catherine C. Cleare Interiors , and Catherine is at home making things that are new look old, beautiful, exotic, and well loved. She talks fluent "flea market" and loves to collect treasures from her road trips. In this video, Catherine shows off her beautiful yard, porch, and side yard - and generously shares some of her tips and secrets for dressing things up and making them practical and decorative.
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20:13:33 11/08/10
Eclectic Decorating
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Florida's Mayfair Antiques is a mecca for designers and homeowners alike, anyone who is looking for the interesting, unique, and unusual. This video shows one client's use of beautifully curated and carefully collected treasures in a colorful and thoughful mix of eye candy. We thought you would appreciate seeing this mix of styles and pieces and get a bit of inspiration for your own projects.
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16:50:44 11/04/10
Restoring Old Homes
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It's a truism: going green sometimes means reusing everything you already have. When it comes to home remodeling, the best approach is often to take the existing house footprint and make it as beautiful and energy efficient as possible. Old House Web is a fantastic resource for helping homeowners celebrate their old building stock and make the most with what they've already got. Check out their Green Guide for key resources and advice before you begin your next project, and watch this video on how an old house got some new energy-efficient life. Very inspiring. Photo: Hall's Construction, Erie, PA
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17:30:24 11/02/10
Savvy Furniture Buying
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Author Jennifer Litwin - also known as The Shop Cop - has traveled the country telling consumers about the pitfalls of furniture buying. With a largely unregulated furniture industry, it's important to follow careful guidelines and seriously examine furniture and the "fine print" to make sure you're buying something that's good quality. Good example: case goods marked "oak" or "cherry" or "mahogany" may just have a veneer of that finish over particle board that won't wear well over time. Worse yet, there may be no such wood present in the piece and you're really dealing with a finish or stain by that name over lesser-quality wood like pine. Here's a video with a few tips from her book Best Furniture Buying Tips Ever!
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11:25:08 11/01/10
Holiday Tablescapes
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With Halloween over, we start to turn our attention to the November-December holidays. That means setting a festive table, and in this Pottery Barn video, designer Susanna Salk gives us some tips on making a few key purchases to create versatile and simple holiday tablescapes. You don't have to scream out "It's Christmas!" by turning your home into a kitsch fest, but you can focus on the winter theme and bring in fresh evergreens, berries, and use reflective surfaces like glass, silver, and mercury glass along with candlelight to add glittery warmth to your home.
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03:37:29 10/30/10
Amityville Horror House
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The typical Halloween haunted house is usually the site of murders or untimely deaths. The famous Amityville Horror house from horror movie fame, is based on real-life murders and intrigue. This video gives you an introduction to the house and its tragic - and controversial - story. ( Click here for other Amityville videos to explore the whole story.) Happy Halloween.
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