10th Annual Design On A Dime Featured Vignette Rooms

Thursday evening kicked off this years 10th Annual Design On A Dime fundraising event at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. This is New York City’s most popular interior design benefit, with tons of talent and designer donations all cleverly creating well thought out various and unforgettable room vignettes with new (donated) merchandise. The merchandise sells for 50% to 70% off retail pricing at the DOAD fundraising three day event. All of the profits from the Design on a Dime event help Housing Works “Get A Room” for homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. You can read more about the Housing Works organization in my previous post, About Housing Works Thrift & Design On A Dime plus also take a behind the scenes peek at how one of the participating designers, Patrick J. Hamilton, created his vignette at another previous event, Charity Causes: How To Get Vignette Set -- And also be sure to see all the behind the scenes before and after pics of this years DOAD event at Mon Oncle, by Rio Hamilton. Living here in the southwest, I wasn't unable to attend, however thanks to social media, here is a collection of just a few faves from this years vignettes, shared via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram during the event...

 Love the Spore Mirror, (part of the Barry Dixon Inc Collection at Arteriors) in this DOAD room vignette designed by Patrick J. Hamilton - The perfect balance of both masculine & feminine created in a space...

 Truly a clever application and even play on words - 'design on a dime'. Attendee Jonathan Legate learned the prints on the back wall were sheets of paper in poster frames. The paper is a gorgeous marble paper from Thailand, available at: Paper Source. (They actually have a location here in Scottsdale!!) Each sheet is 25" x 37" and only costs $8 each. Talk about getting the most bang for your buck - That wall is a WOW factor!

 LOVE the application of the arched mirror, used to create a window within the bookcases, for this vignette...

 

 

 

 

Tamara Matthews-Stephenson (second from left) and DOAD guest Jonathan Legate.

LOVE the fabric wall covering... 

 Director of the Design on a Dime Event, Mel Alvarez (left) with designer Tyler Wisler & his beautiful assistant Paula.

Proud Robin Baron in her DOAD vignette.

 DOAD designer Nicole Gibbons posing in her vignette.

 Michael Tavano Design DOAD room vignette...

 

And last but not least, one of many faves from this year's 10th Annual Design On A Dime room vignette designs... A room inspired by Carrie Bradshaw's Closet - How it would be today...

 

The room started with this GORGEOUS Greek Key wall covering from Lee Jofa, and transformed into...

 

 DOAD room vignette design by Marks & Frantz Design - Carrie Bradshaw Today 

Both photos by Rick Lew Photography

Unbelievable - the talent, dedication and hard work that went into all of the room vignettes and coordinating this special event... Truly amazing! For a complete list of all the designers and list of sponsors, visit Design On A Dime at Housing Works...

 

Design On A Dime - Founding Chair - James Huniford (pictured here with DOAD designer, Robin Baron). 

 Thursday evening may have been the Opening Night Reception, but now the event is open to the public: April 25 & 26... So get out in NYC and shop for a great cause!

Congrats to all and thanks for stopping by!

AD HOME DESIGN SHOW + DIFFA + BLOG TOUR NYC 2014

Today is the First day of Spring, along with some exciting trade show happenings! NYC is kicking off Spring with the 13th Annual Architectural Digest Home Design Show, happening March 20 - 23 at Pier 94.  Also known as the AD Home Design Show, the event will host 300+ exhibitors PLUS design seminars, cooking demonstrations, book signings, cocktail receptions, along with brand and product launches + debuts. One of the debut's at the AD Home Design Show will be a pop-up shop concept called ‘The Shops’ – an on location retail experience with products available for immediate purchase. The new cash & carry market features The Shop at Cooper-Hewitt, DwellStudio, AllModern (a division of Wayfair), and more. Even if you are unable to attend the event, thanks to social media, you can follow along on Twitter using the hashtag #ADHDS2014.

New York Times Designer Seminar Series Panelists - including NY Designer, Patrick J. Hamilton.

One of the featured seminars will be the Jenn-Air Master Class Studio, featuring exclusive programs including trade seminars organized by Architectural Digest, a keynote presentation by Editor-in-Chief Margaret Russell, and a three-day New York Times Designer Seminar Series. I wish I was able to attend, if only to see & hear my friend, Interior Designer Patrick J.  Hamilton speak as a panel member for “Design Dot Com: The Changing State of the Industry,” on Saturday afternoon. Patrick is also one of the several talented designers participating in the Design on A Dime Event, coming up later this Spring in April. More about DOAD  coming up shortly, but be sure to check out Patrick's vignette contribution on my previous post: Charity Causes Get Vignette Set, plus read Patrick's blog at AskPatrick.

Co-Located for the sixth consecutive year with the AD Home Design Show will be the 30th Annual DIFFA - Dining  By Design Charity Event. DIFFA is Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS and is one of the country’s largest supporters of direct care for people living with HIV/AIDS plus preventive education for those at risk. Founded in 1984 by Patricia Green and Larry Pond, DIFFA has granted funds to organizations which fight AIDS by providing:

• preventive education programs targeted to populations at risk of infection
• treatment and direct-care services for people living with HIV/AIDS
• public policy initiatives which add resources to private sector efforts

The DIFFA - Dining By Design Event will kick-off  this evening, Thursday, March 20, with a Cocktails by Design Preview Party from 7 - 10 pm and a Gala Dinner will take place Monday evening from  6:30 - 11 pm. If you are unable to attend these evening soirees, you'll still be able to view the magic tablescapes and dining environments Friday, March 21thru Saturday, March 22 from 11am—7pm and Sunday, March 23 from 10am—6pm. For tickets to attend any of the DIFFA events, visit: diffa.org.

Sneak Peek of one of this years table & dining environment designs:

"Love is Life" table by DVF for Kravet at DIFFA - instagram

In addition to DIFFA - New York, they also have these additional chapter locations: 

Chicago www.diffachicago.org

Dallas www.diffadallas.org

Detroit www.michiganaidscoalition.org

Kansas City www.diffakc.org

San Francisco www.diffasf.org

Seattle www.diffaseattle.org

 Besides following the AD Home Design show on twitter at #ADHDS2014, you can also follow at #DIFFA -- AND -- #BlogTourNYC. Meet the bloggers of Blog Tour NYC 2014 on Modenus.

 

It's an exciting time to be a part of the City that never sleeps!

With all these wonderful design events happening to kick-off Spring, how could you?

Thanks for stopping by!

A Pop-Up Thrift Shop At Dwell With Dignity

A recent trend happening in retail is the pop-up store concept. Although the concept + term were actually launched back in 2004 (according to Trendwatch.com) it is rapidly growing as a means of creating buzz around a brand. It quickly creates hype around a brand with its strong use of integrating social media because people will tweet before, during and after the even. They will even check-in and share pics on their new FB Timeline. And if you have a limited assortment of goods to promote, you can showcase those goods in a tasteful gallery like setting, complete with refreshments, music and engaging people representing the brand itself. Which is why I believe the concept of a Bi-Annual Pop-Up Thrift Shop from Dwell With Dignity is brilliant! It's not all about the thrill of the thrift. For DWD, it's about consistently creating their brand awareness.

I first learned about Dwell With Dignity last summer when they appeared on the Nate Berkus Show in August. I loved what they stood for: "Dwell With Dignity is a non-profit group of Interior Designers and volunteers dedicated to creating soothing, inspiring homes for families struggling with homelessness and poverty. We provide and install home interiors for families that include furnishings and art, bedding and kitchen supplies, and food in the pantry." Unlike Habitat For Humanity, which is also another great organization focused on helping to provide a structure + community for people in need to live in,  HFH focuses primarily on just that: the outside. Dwell With Dignity Takes it inside and helps turn that house into a home.

At Dwell With Dignity, they understand the thrift-trend and combined it with the retail trend of the Pop-up thrift shop called Thrift Studio. "Thrift Studio is a bi-annual 30 day pop up shop created to provide financial viability and fundraising for Dwell with Dignity through selling the overstock of donated, gently used furniture, housewares, accessories and high end designer finds to the public." How brilliant is that??

This limited time only thrift shop concept will be open Monday - Saturday during April 13th – May 12th from 10AM – 5:30PM. It's located in the Dallas Design Center at 1250 Slocum Drive, Suite 550. Mark your calender's for this unique experience to help a design organization that is giving back and helping so many - and also helping to keep the American dream alive that we may all Dwell With Dignity.


For more information about Dwell With Dignity visit their website at DwellWithDignity.org, where you can also become a member of their community with your donation. You can also join them on their FB page, or even follow some of their project boards by Kim Turner on Pinterest. 

Thanks for stopping by!