DIFFA - Dining by Design - Part 3 - Architectural Digest Home Show

It was such a pleasure to tour this year's DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS Dining by Design exhibition during the Architectural Digest Home Show with some of my friends on #BlogTourNYC with Modenus as a BlogTour alum.

Being able to visit the exhibition with last year's still very fresh on my mind.. (visit the posts from last year here, here and here) was exciting to see how some of this year's designers who were also present last year, shared a very different point of view. 

Frederico Delrosso - Corinthian Capitol Group LLC

Being an official New Yorker now for the past 5 years.. there is something about this installation piece that really strikes a chord for me.. simple and beautiful while touching on an emotional connection to those of us that actually look up when visiting Manhattan.

Arteriors - design by Barry Dixon

Rachel Laxer Interiors with Robert Kuo

Pratt Institute - Arpad Baksa - J Josephson, Inc

Marc Blackwell New York

Rachel Ashwell - Shabby Chic

Fendi Casa - Manhattan Magazine

KennethCobonpue

In case you missed them, make sure to visit Part 1 and Part 2 of the Dining by Design posts from this year's event..

New York School of Interior Design - Marc Blackwell

I truly hope you enjoyed viewing the tables of this year's show, and make sure to show your support of this great cause, as we all have an invested interest in making sure that all that suffer from this horrific disease, are taken care of and that those that we can educate and save from these struggles, are given all the education that we all deserve.

PUBLIC VIEWING

Friday, March 22 - Saturday, March 23
11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 24
11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Explore the latest in design trends as you view the amazing installations and shop the silent auction. 
TICKETS: $30 (includes admission to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show)
Enter Promo Code DIFFA to receive $5 off 

To purchase tickets, click here.

SILENT AUCTION
Throughout the course of the five days of events, DIFFA will host a silent auction showcasing fabulous hospitality experiences and luxury goods. If your company is interested in contributing an experience to the event's silent auction, please click here. 

DIFFA - Dining by Design - Part 2 - Architectural Digest Home Show

Continuing from yesterday's post, here are more inspiring table creations where brands have successfully collaborated with designers, architects and artists alike as they support the great cause of DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS during this year's Architectural Digest Home Show.

When the tables and their designs can speak for themselves.. that is what I will let them do!

Ralph Lauren Home

Elizabeth Bolognino

ECHO Design 

Gensler + Herman Miller

a fun installation / collaboration piece, with the public asked to participate in taking a kiss (or two..) and helping generate the pattern in the wall!

Beacon Hill

FABRICUT, that I got to know well at the Design Bloggers Conference as the most gracious of hosts for a lovely evening in Los Angeles  -
table designed by Vern Yip

Maya Romanoff - Kinky Boots - Rockwell Group

Fragments of Life ..
Inspiration Statement: "Explores the variety of phases and emotions one experiences throughout life. The irregular pointed shapes  represent people from all demographics coming together."

 

PROFILES designed by James Magni

Come back tomorrow for the final installment of the Dining by Design tablescapes.. as well as much more great finds from the Architectural Digest Home Show.

PUBLIC VIEWING

Friday, March 22 - Saturday, March 23
11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 24
11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Explore the latest in design trends as you view the amazing installations and shop the silent auction. 
TICKETS: $30 (includes admission to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show)
Enter Promo Code DIFFA to receive $5 off 

To purchase tickets, click here.

SILENT AUCTION
Throughout the course of the five days of events, DIFFA will host a silent auction showcasing fabulous hospitality experiences and luxury goods. If your company is interested in contributing an experience to the event's silent auction, please click here. 

DIFFA-Dining by Design - Part 1 at the Architectural Digest Show

My visit to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show last year was very successful for me and my design practice as I found some really fantastic artists that ended up collaborating with me on a few design installations..

One of the main highlights for me every year is always the DIFFA-Dining by Design tables exhibition... as is of course, my breakfast with Modenus and the lovely team of BlogTour NYC with a few #MarysandMimosas to start us off right!




In it's 16th year, this annual celebration of art, fashion and design draws on the collaborative powers of tabletop and interior/architectural minds in a way that is always very inspiring and highly creative, and this year was certainly no exception. All of that AND all for a special cause.. now that is simply Magic.

Interior Design Magazine - design by Ali Taylor

"DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS is one of the country's largest supporters of direct care for people living with HIV/AIDS & preventive education for those at risk." 

Some of the first look at the tables and their designers.. make sure to check out their links too and support everyone that helps make this possible every year..

I'm just going to let the tables speak for themselves..

Kravet / Lee Jofa designed by Aerin Lauder

Goil and Tom (AM/MOR Architecture), Justin Huxol (HUXHUX Design) with Whoopi Goldberg

EDG - The Roger Thomas Collection

Parsons The New School for Design with Mentors "2 Michaels" design

New York Design Center - by Thom Filicia

Architectural Digest 

and if you are in New York, and can head into the city.. make sure to stop by and visit these tables and show yourself.. it is definitely worth the trip.

PUBLIC VIEWING

Friday, March 22 - Saturday, March 23
11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sunday, March 24
11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Explore the latest in design trends as you view the amazing installations and shop the silent auction. 
TICKETS: $30 (includes admission to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show)
Enter Promo Code DIFFA to receive $5 off 

To purchase tickets, click here.

SILENT AUCTION
Throughout the course of the five days of events, DIFFA will host a silent auction showcasing fabulous hospitality experiences and luxury goods. If your company is interested in contributing an experience to the event's silent auction, please click here. 

Much more tomorrow on the blog so see you then!

Extra Extra, Read all about it ~ House Beautiful Presents..

Another great issue of House Beautiful hits the news stands today ~ so before you rush out and get your copy.. 




I have a special treat to share with you. 
An advance look at one of the highlighted designers this month -

Connie Newberry. 







I felt particularly inspired by the subtle menage of color, pattern and styles that Connie Newberry used when designing her home and in doing so was very successful in establishing a warm and inviting family home (she has three boys!) that doesn't seem staged or posed, but instead very real and timeless. 

Join me, as she opens the doors to her stunning Hudson Valley home.

"Lunch is often eaten outdoors at the teak table and chairs during summer and fall. "

The flamingo, painted by British artist William Skilling, “is fun,” Newberry says.
It hangs over an 18th century Welsh dresser. Custom carpet by Beauvais.

Watermelon colored curtains and yellow piping on leather-covered 18th-century Italian chairs add to the warmth in the dining room while in the library, a sofa covered in Holland & Sherry moleskin blends into the walls. A coffee table from Gerald Bland “adds the pop of red every room needs,” Newberry says and a touch of modern "Antelope" in the carpet by Stark.

Connie creates a classic, All-American look in her home, with a blend of animal patterns, botanical prints, and chintz, which adds cheerful vibrancy to each room. Her combination of patterns and colors creates an old-fashioned, warm, inviting atmosphere.

The kitchen is the hub of the house, with room for a desk and a big breakfast table. 

“I thought the more formal 18th-century lyre-back chairs combined with the 19th-century French farmhouse table was an interesting juxtaposition,” Newberry says. The high back of the banquette hides any mess on the mahogany-topped island. A pair of lamps by Vaughan “makes it feel more like a room and less of a kitchen.” The cabinetry is painted in her favorite creamy white, Benjamin Moore’s Linen White. - CN

"..Not everyone would choose red walls for a guest room. I know. But you can be more adventurous because no one is going to be sleeping there all the time—hopefully.
Red is very warm, and it sets off the chintz. .. I didn't want guests to come in and think they were going to be eaten alive by those giant apples and pears. So I quilted it to take the edge off. ...The quilting also creates another layer of pattern. And a kind of patina. Although that wasn't a problem here - Having three boys around definitely added to the patina very quickly."- CN

The red walls in the guest room are both warm and surprising,” says Newberry, who chose the paint color—Chili Pepper by Benjamin Moore—to complement one of her favorite chintzes by Brunschwig & Fils. A 19th-century Chinese screen from Gerald Bland and a leopard-spotted chest in whimsical green add more layers of color, pattern,and texture. Carpet by Stark. Bed linens by Schweitzer. Tortoise blinds by Smith & Noble.

Connie Newberry: "I love chintz! The 

combination of colors adds a vibrancy 

to a room  that even a bunch of bright 

solid fabrics can’t give you." 

So chintz is your time capsule?

CN: "Exactly. ... 

I think there’s a comfort factor 

to it. When you walk into a room with 

chintz on the curtains or on a chair, 

it brings back happy memories. You 

let your guard down. There’s a lack 

of pretense to it, as opposed to silk or 

damask.

It’s good, classic American 

decorating." 

Another American classic—a ticking stripe—perks up a boy’s room

Wallpaper in the bathroom .. Oh YES! Soothing greys, whites get a great kick of color from the dark emerald (very on trend) green in the towels and accents in this bathroom.

A large-scale pattern on the wallcovering by Katie Ridder for Holland & Sherry

makes the master bath feel bigger. 

So enjoy the rest of the home in the April issue of House Beautiful, and let me know which room was YOUR favorite!

Here is a great little video from House Beautiful in 2011 that shows Connie's sense of humor, and .. her love of Frogs!?!

3 Questions With Connie Newberry 

The designer on frogs, chintz, and grouping a collection en masse.

 

All images courtesy of House Beautiful.

Article: Produced by David M. Murphy Styled by Gregory Bissonnette

Interior design by Connie Newberry Interview by Christine Pittel Photographs by Jonny Valiant