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Irwin Weiner ASID - Are you a design student or a furniture designer? Do you want to design and produce home goods and furnishings, but you have no practical outlet? With retailers playing it safe and stocking only from The Big Guys these days, being an indie designer means you'll likely have difficulty breaking through. Groopti.com may be a great solution for you - and if you're a homeowner, check out their Shop for inexpensive, original home goods from talented newbies.

Think of it as supporting a Sundance or art house movie versus purchasing a ticket to yet another major motion picture blockbuster. Case in point: check out Jessica Bogart's Conflicted Corrugation chair in today's featured video; see how

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Muchas Gracias, Casas & Gente Magazine

Jay Johnson - Design2Share is proud of our resident interior design expert Irwin Weiner ASID. Congratulations, Irwin, on having one of your stunning Central Park West interiors featured as the cover image and one of the featured stories in the March 2012 issue of Casas & Gente, the celebrated Spanish language version of Town & Country magazine, published in Mexico City. 

The Casas & Gente article is titled "Estilo en Manhattan" ("Style in Manhattan"), and Irwin's work shows a vibrant, colorful confidence that fits his husband-and-wife clients like a glove. The homeowners are accomplished professionals, and art and sculpture is their passion. The furnishings reflect the sculptural timelessness of the couple's taste. All photographs of their completely renovated apartment were taken by Chris Cooper, noted photographer of architectural and interior design subjects. 

Part of the story about decorating this chic apartment is the reuse of some key furnishings from an earlier job that Irwin completed for the clients. The reuse of existing elements is vital to the successful on-budget completion of today's professional interior design projects, and the magazine asked Irwin to write a quick poem about his philosophy on "interior design thrift."

Think before you spend.
Creativity knows no end.
You'll do it for a while,
that you should live with style!

Click here to see more photos of this published Irwin Weiner interior, and visit the Irwin Weiner Interiors website for more information about his New York City IWI design business. 

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TV Interior Design on the Set of Ringer

Living Room from RingerJanet Ramin - The last time I discussed one of TV’s most beautiful interiors - a loft-style apartment found on the set of Bones - I discovered another gorgeous interior on the set of Ringer, a television show about double identities and murder, starring Sarah Michelle Geller.

Ringer is set in a New York City high-rise apartment, and thanks to the design skills of Steven Wolff, it’s a feast for the eyes. Drawing upon the background of the storyline, Wolff created a very elegant and sophisticated design for New York socialites Siobban and Andrew Martin’s home. For the living room, Wolff started with a lively striped-pattern fabric (seen in the settee above) and took those colors of cream, wine, and ochre and extrapolated them, applying the colors to the rest of the spacious living room. The space has a mix of oversized, comfy seating as well as the more formal lines of the settee and armchairs. Creamy marbles – found in the console table on the right and the coffee table – give the room its luxurious feel. 

Living Room from Ringer

Wolff contrasted this bright living room with the darker setting of the den for the husband, Andrew Martin. The den has a more masculine feel – with chocolate walls and brown-pattern and burgundy upholstered seating. The furniture is an eclectic mix of

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How Interactive Do You Want a Designer's Website to Be?

Irwin Weiner ASID - Do you like so-called interactive websites? Designers of such sites like to dazzle you with music, lots of flash animation, arrows, and moveable windows so you can click around and explore different features. Here's a video showing a demonstration of the interactive website from talented fellow South African interior designer David Muirhead. What do you like about this website? What don't you like about it? I'm interested in what turns Internet visitors on or off when they visit a designer's online domain.

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