February Design Favorites

 

Here's a great, FREE guide to hosting a flawless dinner party, whether you're inviting friends over for a big bash or wanting a special treat for your family. If you buy any featured party item in our Dinner Party Special Offer, you'll receive FREE our 18-page exclusive Dinner Parties: The Complete Expert Guide. The Internet's finest assortment of food and entertainment experts have joined forces in this awesome promotion.

• Introduction: Sure-Fire Party Planning Trips and Party Setup How-To from Design2Share
• Featured Hors d'oeuvre: Best Hummus Recipe from Denise of DeDeMed
• Featured Soup: Butternut Squash Soup from the Cooking with Friends Club
• Featured Salad: Avocado and Orange Salad (photo below) from the Zesty Cook
• Featured Vegetarian Entrée: Sundried Tomato and Feta Frittata from Finding Radiance
• Featured Meat Entrée: Pinot Braised Short Ribs (photo above) from Michael Ruhlman
• Featured Side Dish: Creamy Potato Mustard Gratin from Sippity Sup
• Featured Dessert: Grapefruit Panna Cotta (top photo) from Chef Michael Laiskonis

Included in the Expert Guide are tips from the cooking experts and complete recipes for each course.

TIME TO GO HOME SHOPPING: For a limited time only, Design2Share is sweetening our Open Sky deal even more. In addition to the great Dinner Paries: The Complete Expert Guide offer if you buy any featured dinner party items, if you buy anything in our online Design2Share Home Goods Shop, you'll get a FREE personal video home design consultation with the Design2Share experts. It's 1-2-3 easy:

1. With any purchase, the Design2Share team will send you a thank-you email.
2. Email us back with any and all of your home design questions - from window treatment advice and new paint color recommendations to help with your remodeling and renovation projects.
3. Design2Share's experts will make a personalized video answering all your questions, and we'll email it to you . . . with our gratitude for shopping in our store.

Shop at the Design2Share Home Goods Shop on Open Sky while this exclusive FREE personalized home design consultation video offer remains in effect. Now is the time to buy that gift, spruce up your tabletop, check out the great lighting, and add some punchy accessories to any room of your house.

And Now It's Time for Bed

Valentine's Day . . . romance . . . bed. Here are some of our favorite sleeping units.

 Air Lounge platform bed from Meritalia by designer Fabio Novembre

Fat Bed from B&B Italia

Bloom bed from Bontempi Casa

L13 Samsara bed from Cassina by Cuno Frommherz

Grand Piano bed from Flou by Mario Bellini

Lomme Sleeping Pod by Gunther Thony (with lights and sound system)

Metropolitan Bed from B&B Italia by Jeffrey Bernett

L16 Low Deck bed from Cassina by Hannes Wettstein

Diamond Bed from Molteni & C

 Lipla Double Bed from Porro by Marie Massaud

Tufty Bed from B&B Italia by Patricia Urquiola

ACLE bed from Maxalto

L23 SWB bed from Cassina by Philippe Starck

Hiro Bed from Silenia

Lazy Night bed from B&B Italia by Patricia Urquiola

January Design Favorites

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Sky-High Park

We're in love with New York City's new High Line Park, and it's our resolution to spend more time strolling this exciting urban space built on an old elevated 1930s railroad track in the midst of bustling Manhattan.

Blowin' in the Wind

Retro as all get out, we're over the moon about the Asli Arts Capiz Solar Chime from the good folks at Woodstock Chimes. Click on the chimes to read all about these tinkling chimes made from capiz shells and how they use solar power to light up and cast a moody, shimmering glow when the sun goes down. These chimes make great gifts and can be enjoyed either indoors or outside.

Design Store Love

Make a point in the new year to stop online or in person at the Molteni&C Dada Unifor flagship store. The brick and mortar location is at trendy 60 Green Street in SoHo. Their many goodies include Patricia Urquiola's Diamond Table (below) and all the tabletop selections you'd ever want to put on it.

 More Design Store Love

The Wallpaper* wallspace store is now open at the Rinascente department store in Milan, Italy's design capital.

These design goodies caught our eye (photos below): salt and pepper grinders by Norway Says for Muuto; the Two Timer wall clock by Industrial Facility and Sam Hecht.

And Speaking of Time . . .

Audemars Piguet, the world's oldest watchmaker still in the hands of its two Swiss founding families (founded in 1875), just opened up a shining oasis of a flagship store on Manhattan's busy 57th Street. The new 3,000 square foot boutique is a combined design effort between Swiss firm Atelier Oi and the work of New York commercial interior design firm Spin Design. Dramatic design elements abound and guarantee this as a must-see experience for design and timepiece aficionados.

Hands-Free Doors

Star Trek lovers unite! We now have automatic patio doors that will slide open when you approach. How many times have we had to fumble around with a tray of drinks or snacks trying to open old patio doors? No longer with the Star Track Electronic Motion Sensing Sliding Door Opener, a nifty way to automate your existing glass and screen doors.