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Sonoma

Sonoma

I recently spent a lovely long weekend in Sonoma County, California. I was there for a wedding at Grace Ranch (I am designing a chandelier for th...

Collective "design" Consciousness

I have a somewhat irrational design fear. Maybe I am putting too much thought into this but the more I am courted by or brought into design studi...

Golden Mean or Ratio

Can a designer ever stop designing? While at Sandy Hook beach on the Jersey shore I was abruptly brought back to the reality of my design pas...

Facts on Hanging a Chandelier

One of the first things we notice when we walk into a space is the chandelier. Sometimes we see that jaw dropping feature that takes our breath awa...

CHOCOLATIER

Could someone please explain to me how Paris is filled with such amazing chocolate shops, bakeries, cheese shops and cafes and still the French a...

Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2012

How could you not be inspired by Louis Vuitton’s Fall/Winter 2012 collection? The richness and elegance was beyond compare this season. Look to ...

Summer Dalhia

Here is my new Thomas Fuchs Creative Ombre glass used as a vase for my late summer Dalhia. They would also be beautiful votives with the dark lo...

Bright Idea

StartFragment Here is a new fun Light Bulb to add some fun and glamour to your lamp or chandelier. Swedish graphic designer Eric Therner has creat...

Making a Murano glass leaf

I just returned from visiting my glass factories in Italy and I thought I would shed a little light on part of the hand made, mouth blown, magical...

Water

These images are from an amazingly visual blog I recently discovered called Moniquetdany. I have to brush up on my French to get the entire story...

Distraction

In regards to doing business in Italy for Otium, in theory, this is my slow time since the glass factories on the island of Murano are closed for ...

Fear of design Commitment

On a recent downtown trip to SOHO to explore some of my favorite shopping treasures of NYC like Ted Muehling, Moss, de Vera, Etc. I started to noti...

TFC NEW PLACEMATS

Here are a few of our newest additions to the Thomas Fuchs Creative collection and an entirely new departure from 3D objects. It has been an amaz...