Style Details Video from Hotel Le Bristol Paris

Irwin Weiner ASID - Interior design is all about spaces with good architectural bones and exquisite details to make the space comfortable and provide a pleasing human scale for everyday living. The best hotels in the world are quite adept at providing style by the bushel, but sometimes the effect is mass-produced and sterile.

I found this lifestyle marketing video for Hôtel Le Bristol in Paris, and it exemplifies the best of hotel style. Thoughtful, personable, comfortable, luxurious, beautiful interior spaces - and sometimes quirky, like the room we see with pitched angles, like in a converted attic - this is what I look for in a fine hotel.

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Super-Small Apartment Fits Extra-Large Design Features

Irwin Weiner ASID - In Friday's post I shared with you my addiction to SPACEStv. They're a YouTube channel devoted to interior design videos, and there's a wide variety of programs to watch. One is called "Tiny Eclectic Amazing Spaces," and it combines my love for space planning, organization, and eclectic decorating. There are some nifty tricks that are featured in today's design video, all ways to combine sleeping, living, and work into one room (although where is the kitchen and eating area?).

"London bachelor chic" is the look here, and it works; manly, rugged design, skull artwork, steampunk-y hardware, and black walls all add to the "We're All Guys Living Here" look. What do you think? (Click on either of the photos above for an interview with Bill Indursky, who put the look together along with his boyfriend. Bill's the founder of VandM.com, - Vintage and Modern - a fantastic web resource for vintage furnishings and stylish home decor.)

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Manhattan Actress Arden Myrin Wants You to Take Her Home!

Irwin Weiner ASID - I'm addicted now to SPACEStv. They're a YouTube channel devoted to interior design videos. I wanted to share one of their vids with you - NYC/LA actress Arden Myrin is a comic, sassy presence on the interior design video scene and she asks complete strangers to "Take Me Home," picking folks off the streets and taking potluck that she'll get a tour of a great private living space.

Her Russian Roulette street gamble pays off in spades in today's featured video as she encounters, Jeff, a well-to-do Upper West Side Manhattan ... bricklayer? His tricked-out apartment is filled with gadgets and goodies, particularly in the multiple-showerhead master bathroom, Crestron control center, and light-up agate countertops in the kitchen. 

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Still Time to Visit the 2012 Hampton Designer Showhouse

Irwin Weiner ASID - Showhouses are fun to visit. Come on, admit it! Each room is a POP of color, a DARING experiment, something FRESH, and GLAMOUR up to the gills. Unlike your home or mine, a showhouse is meant to be theatrical, with each room's design team trying to visually and viscerally hit you between the eyes. And best of all, showhomes are meant to be specatator sports: "Oh, I love that bed." "Isn't that hideous?!" "We could do that in our home." "What were they thinking?" "Wow!"

As a showhouse veteran, I can tell you that designers put their hearts and soul into staging a good show (and it costs designers a great deal of time and money as well), all to raise funds through sponsorships and ticket and merchandise sales for good causes. So please do attend the 2012 Hampton Designer Showhouse this year - running through Labor Day Weekend - and enjoy today's featured video house tour of the 2011 home.

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