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SAXON HENRY

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Tag: design industry leaders

As a journalist and content creator, I have come across so many impressive talents during my career and it always excites me to feature design industry leaders here on The Diary of an Improvateur.

I’ve had the pleasure of featuring Carmen Natschke’s summer reading list, for example—an awe-inspiring number of books she made her way through in a few months. I’ve seen my fair share of furniture debuts, interviewing the talented minds who envisioned the collections. Among these is Barry Dixon, whose furniture for Tomlinson/Erwin-Lambeth and charming Magnolia Pod pendant debuted during Spring High Point Market in 2014.

Currey & Company is a manufacturer continually releasing terrific products by the design team there. One launch that had an extra dose of pedigree was Edward Wormley’s upholstery. The mid-century modern designer is one of the unsung heroes of modern design in my book. Cecil Adams is the vice present of creative for the company, and he is definitely one of the design industry leaders to watch.

The Delano Desk by Currey and Co
Books DesignLabs Furniture Design

Rooms of Their Own

Saxon Henry November 18, 2014 American furniture manufacturersAmerican poetsbooks of lettersdead poets societydesign industry leadersdesign narrativesfamous writersHigh Point Marketkeeping diarieslightingnonfiction writersnovelistspaintersset decorationVirginia Woolfwriting desks

A private place in which to write… As someone whose life is spent working with words for at least a part of every day, I find…

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Bernhardt Interiors HPMkt Fall 2014
Cultural Explorations Furniture Design Literature

The Valentino Lair

Saxon Henry October 31, 2014 actors and actressesAmerican furniture manufacturersAmerican poetsdead poets societydesign industry leadersdesign narrativesHigh Point Marketliterary design encounterspoetryset decoration

Before The Beatles turned teenaged girls into a screaming, weeping throng and George Clooney made even the most reserved woman a bit toasty under the…

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Bernhardt's Marquesa dresser on Saxon Henry's blog.
Books Furniture Design Interior Design

Harmony and Proportion

Saxon Henry October 15, 2014 American furniture manufacturersdecorating historydesign industry leadersdesign narrativesEdith WhartonHigh Point Marketnonfiction writersnovelistsset decoration

Love of beauty is taste…the creation of beauty is art. -Emerson I’ve been a fan of Alexandra Stoddard since I came across the designer’s book Living…

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The chapter of “Staircases: the Architecture of Ascent” covering 1600-1800 is titled “A Theatre of Power” and illustrated with this sumptuous image of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “Reception of the Grand Condé at Versailles” [1878], courtesy of The Vendome Press and Musée d’Orsay/Hervé Lewandowski.
Architecture Books Interior Design

Summer Reading with Carmen Natschke

Saxon Henry August 3, 2014 architectural storytellingdecorating historydesign industry leadersFrancegrand residencesItalyLondonpaintersParisphilosopherssummer reading listVersailles

For those of you who think Carmen Natschke, of The Decorating Diva fame, is merely a glamorous gadabout holding court in the design stratosphere, there…

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The Aloysius sectional by Barry Dixon through Tomlinson/Erwin-Lambeth.
Books Furniture Design Literature

Allegorical Accents from Barry Dixon

Saxon Henry July 28, 2014 American furniture manufacturersAtlantaauthenticityChinoiseriedesign industry leadersfamous writersHigh Point Marketlightingnovelistssummer reading list

Certain aspects of being southern seem to seep into the skin through osmosis. It’s as if the summer heat wriggles into our DNA, the perspiration…

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Darryl Carter's Room 21 at Kips Bay
Books Interior Design Philanthropy

Kips Bay Show House

Saxon Henry July 14, 2014 classical antiquitydesign industry leadersdesign narrativesfamous writersgrand residencesliterary design encountersNew York Citynonfiction writersphilosophersWashington DC

“The house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind,” wrote Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of…

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JoAnn Locktov at Streamsong
Architecture DesignLabs Nature Writing

Poem at Streamsong

Saxon Henry June 26, 2014 American poetsarchitectural storytellingauthenticitydesign industry leadersdesign narrativeskeeping diariesliterary design encounters

I’m visiting Streamsong Resort near Tampa to experience the natural beauty and incredible architecture, the latter created by Alberto Alfonso, who was featured in my…

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Jeanne Moreau stars in Bay of Angels.
Films Furniture Design Television Series

A Jet Set Fantasy

Saxon Henry April 16, 2014 actors and actressesAmerican furniture manufacturersdecorating historydesign industry leadersdesign narrativesEmpire Stylefashion influences interiorsHigh Point MarketLouis XIVParispopular movieswriting desks

When the Bernhardt Jet Set buffet flowed through the raucous column of my Tweetdeck during the #HPMkt Twitter chat on the evening of March 12th, I chased…

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