Benjamin Moore Hands Hue Award to Interior Design Firm for First Time
After presenting architecture firms its lifetime achievement award every year since the they were established in 2005, the paint manufacturer has selected Diamond Baratta Design for its 2010 honor.

Close Up: Framed Mirrors


Garden Party
Creating al fresco environments is a picnic

Close Up
Bark and Barnacle Nature lives in Darcy Miro's white-bronze hardware Door Man It's Robert A.M. Stern at SA Baxter Sources Bark and Barnacle Darcy Miro, 212-366-9896; darcymiro.com. Door Man SA Baxter, 800-407-4295; sabaxter.com.

Straight Up With a Twist
It's tradition in transition

Edgy Organics
Of the earth—and of the moment

Glam It Up
Flaunt your inner diva

Win Trip to Cevisama from Tile of Spain
The umbrella brand managed jointly by the Trade Commission of Spain and Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturer’s Association is looking for to fill a minimum of three open spots for a free junket to the mother country that includes a trip to the annual International Ceramic Tile and Bath Furnishings Show.

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Feel the Love We're stuck on wall decals Come Together It's a party with Alexander Girard and friends In Perfect Harmony Furniture and fabric are awash in autumn colors Sources Feel the Love Come Together In Perfect Harmony

Girard Generation
Call him the comeback king—Alexander Girard is popping up everywhere. That's partly thanks to Built, a company founded by two Cranbrook Academy of Art grad students and best known for pushing neoprene beyond wet suits. . .to wine totes and more. Three of Girard's patterns now adorn five Built products, available currently at New York's Mxyplyzyk and in February worldwide.

Paris in the Spring
Preparing for last April's Pavillon des Arts et du Design fair in Paris, the Chahan Gallery commissioned a ceramist that it reps to design an installation for the gallery's stand. Peter Lane, whose wares are sold in the U.S. by the Cocobolo Gallery, responded by drawing on an experience close to home: a trip to New York's American Museum of Natural History, where a life-size diorama of an Ice A...

Accessories


Hold It
Lively containers that are firmly functional

Softcovers
These accessories are easy on the eye and soft to the touch

DWR and Vipp Ask People to Can It!
The modern furnishings dealer and the Danish design company are co-hosting a charity auction to benefit the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS on October 28.

Big-Sky Modernism
If Chicago will not come to Missoula, Missoula must come to Chicago. Designer Ty Best and his business partner, onetime banker Brad Rowley, are both from Montana, but their company, Caste, has its showroom 1,300 miles east of there.

Kitchen & Bath Products: Tea for Two


MoMA Bows First Major Ron Arad Retrospective
"Ron Arad: No Discipline," running August 2 through October 19, surveys 140 examples Arad's industrial designs, studio pieces, and architecture.

Calling All Faces for Humanscale's Charity Auction
The office furniture specialist is soliciting donations of animal-inspired art for Faces in the Wild, its ninth annual auction benefiting the World Wildlife Fund.

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Delightfully Decorative Imagination takes flight with Gracie's lacquered panels Intricacies of India Odegard's screens and panels could come straight from a Mughal palace Sources Delightfully Decorative Gracie, 212-924-6816; graciestudio.com. Intricacies of India Odegard, 212-545-0069; odegardinc.com.