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SAXON HENRY

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High Point Market takes place twice yearly—in the spring and fall. It’s where the American furnishings industry gathers to launch new products.

As a design journalist and blogger, I attend High Point Market most times, eager to see what new releases my favorite manufacturers will unveil. I’m always interested to see what new furniture and lighting Currey & Company debuts, and I enjoy visiting showrooms like Bernhardt. There are always excellent opportunities with both to use their products to craft literary design adventures afterwards, like the diary entry in which I had Rudolf Valentino taking over a portion of the Bernhardt showroom.

Within this generously proportioned string of rooms, I happened upon what I believe would be the quintessential Valentino lair. Though the silent film star has been dead for over 88 years, were he still causing women to swoon today, I had found the furnishings he’d tap to create a modern-day interpretation of his home in the Beverly Hills, which he had dubbed “Falcon Lair.” I am convinced the sumptuous setting created by the Bernhardt Interiors Collection nestled into a corner of the showroom in High Point would have fit him to a tee.

The literary angle to this post is a surprising one: Valentino was a scribe—admittedly, not a very seasoned one but his love poems outlive him! This literary legacy is tucked between the covers of a book titled Day Dreams, which he penned when boredom during an actor’s strike got the best of him.

“Happy indeed I shall be if my Day Dreams will bring you as much enjoyment in the reading as they brought to me in the writing,” he wrote in the introduction of the book, setting the locale and date of the finalization of his rhymes in New York City on May 29, 1923. This is a terrific example of how greater depth can be brought to the subject of design with just a bit of imagination.

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Creation’s Patient Search

Saxon Henry May 25, 2014 architectural storytellingauthenticitydesign narrativesEmotionality of ArchitectureFranceGroundbreakersHigh Point Marketlibrariesnonfiction writerspoetry

The title of this post references a book penned by the lauded Swiss architect Le Corbusier, first published in 1960. In all honesty, it’s more…

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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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Oscar de la Renta

Saxon Henry March 31, 2014 American furniture manufacturersauthenticitydecorating historydocumentariesfashion influences interiorsGroundbreakersHigh Point MarketNew York CityRococo StyleVersailles

My impressionable years where fashion is concerned were the early to late 70s. I can imagine many of you saying, “Oh, that explains how she…

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