What's News at the PDC

 

Robert Allen/Beacon Hill
Suite B499/B484

Laslo to create Robert Allen Fabrics
First Collection to be in Showrooms Next Spring

NEW YORK — Fabric supplier The Robert Allen Group has announced it will partner with design icon Larry Laslo, who will create exclusive fabric collections under the Robert Allen brand. The first collection will debut in spring 2007. It will be sold to the design trade only through Robert Allen Beacon Hill showrooms and through the company’s sales representatives. “Larry’s distinctive contemporary sensibilities will add a high-style transitional element to the Robert Allen repertoire, broadening our wide range of offerings to designers,” said company President Jeff Cordover. Laslo’s furniture collection for Ferguson Copeland is already carried at Robert Allen Beacon Hill showrooms.

 

Arc-Com Fabrics
Suite B260

Orangeburg, NY - May 2006 - Arc-Com Fabrics announces the creation of its new Wall Surface Division. Dedicated to the creation, design and development of unique and innovative wall surface materials for the contract market, the new division, under the direction of Richard Parisi, will launch its first Vinyl Wall Surfaces Collection in the spring of 2006.    

Joining Arc-Com as Director of Wallcovering, Parisi has extensive professional knowledge and experience in the contract wallcovering market. Primarily focused on new product design, development, color and marketing initiatives during his 30 year career in the industry, Parisi will head the division with full responsibility for product design and color as well as marketing and training of Arc-Com’s international sales organization.

 

Poggenpohl
Suite B188

Kitchen design for men (Stuttgart/Herford/Fairfield, NJ, January 2006) --The Porsche Design Group (Porsche Lizenz- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG) and Poggenpohl Möbelwerke GmbH have signed a long-term cooperation contract. Jointly, the manufacturer of luxury kitchens and Porsche Design plan to develop a new kitchen by 2007 that is intended to stand out on account of its functional and puristic design.

Says Dr. Siegmund Rudigier, Managing Director of the Porsche Design Group: “We are very pleased to have found in Poggenpohl the ideal partner for luxury kitchens as this marks a major step ahead on our way toward building the new ‘Living’ product segment that, next to kitchens, will also comprise living-room lamps and furniture. High ambitions, first-rate quality and a clear design language – these are the elements that our two brands have in common.”

 

Provasi Collection
Suite B460

Provasi Collection is glad to announce the opening of a new showroom at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.

The unique display instantly brings the impression of a more classic Provasi, where the renowned manufacturer’s most impressive pieces are accompanied by very elegant and exclusive accessories made by Italian peers and artisans.

Crafted around today’s trends but with a very classic taste, the gallery represents the newest “lifestyle” most of Europe is talking about. From the 13-ft. formal dining table made by Provasi to the extraordinary crystal and bronze center pieces hand made by Baldi in Flor3ence, the gallery decisively makes a statement in neoclassical interiors.

This showroom will certainly inspire you so please stop by for a pick or visit us at provasicollection.com.

 

Magni Design
Suite B273

*As featured in BizBash
Designer's Launch Evokes 80's Dallas

The look for the opening of interior designer Jim Magni's showroom recalled the Starck Club, a bygone Texas boite co-hosted by Philippe Starck and Grace Jones.

For the official opening of interior designer Jim Magni's luxury lifestyle company and showroom at Pacific Design Center, event producers channeled the Starck Club, an edgy Dallas boite co-hosted by Philippe Starck and Grace Jones in the 80's. That meant plenty of white everywhere—white walls, white tulle curtains hanging from the ceiling, and the wait staff in white sarongs, T-shirt dresses, and flip-flops. Guests received silver-embossed invitations on white leather and even snacked on white M&M's inscribed with the designer's name.

The white landscape was one of two distinct party areas created for the launch of the Magni Collection's first flagship showroom. Working with branding and marketing consultant Penelope Francis and Krislyn Custom Floral Couture, Magni took over the empty space adjacent to his cozy showroom so that his 300 guests would have plenty of room to mingle. The clean space was subdivided into three areas by creating an open circle in the middle of the room with arcs of white tulle curtains. Inside were white ottomans and tall tables topped with white antherium in glass bubbles set inside clear glass columns. The far wall was used to project the 1968 cult film Danger Diabolique. "It was a sexy movie that projected the future in 1968 and looks very current today," Francis says. "It's just fun. It's like, 'Oh my God, what is that?'" Nearby Grammy-nominated music supervisor Chris Douridas spun tunes for the evening.

Magni's cozy showroom next door featured samples of his sleek furniture line as well as a model in a Jenny Packham cocktail dress and diamonds borrowed from 1700 Ocean, demonstrating one possible use of the chocolate-brown bed: She reclined on it, flipping through shelter magazines such as Robb Report Luxury Home, which co-hosted the party. A film loop of images directed by Francis to evoke Magni's lifestyle vision was projected against a bare wall. "It's a message and the message is a lifestyle," Francis says. "It's not just about selling sofas. I'm selling sexy, luxurious lifestyles."

 

Giati Design
Suite G197

GIATI DESIGNS MAKES A COMMITMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT
BY JOINING 1% FOR THE PLANET: GIATI Designs, Inc., manufacturer of quality crafted indoor/outdoor teak furniture cast aluminum furniture, market umbrellas and imported European all-weather textiles, is proud to announce their participation in 1% FOR THE PLANET, an alliance of businesses committed to creating a healthier planet by contributing 1% of their annual net revenues to environmental organizations worldwide.

 

Tai Ping Carpets
Suite B400

Tai Ping Carpets is proud to unveil its new showroom at the PDC.  Designed by architect Matthew Baird and comprising 3,600 square feet, the showroom is a spacious, stylish setting for designers to view Tai Ping’s unparalleled collection of premium, custom carpets. 

 

 

 

Bernhardt Design/Bernhardt Textiles
Suite B230

Bernhardt Design took the classroom to the production floor with it’s sponsorship of an interdisciplinary course at the world-renowned Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. The resulting Art Center Collection reflects the diverse group of students and ranges from a seemingly weightless lounge chair perched on tubular steel rods to a table combining organic walnut with industrial steel and topped with tempered glass. The award-winning collection of eight designs was introduced at ICFF in NY in May and was shown at NeoCon in June.