House & Garden's Renovation Issue Features Dream Projects with Trade Secrets from the Pros and Dramatic Tales.February Issue Hitting Newsstands January 9 Celebrates Eco Design and Diversity NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- House & Garden: ORGANIC BLISS page 15 Earth-savvy Paulette Cole has reinvented ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. Home, part of her family's design empire, as a multi-cultural housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. bazaar and socially responsible business. Cole's world-view is visible in her mise-en-scene: reclaimed-wood tables, vegetable-dyed hemp hemp, common name for a tall annual herb (Cannabis sativa) of the family Cannabinaceae, native to Asia but now widespread because of its formerly large-scale cultivation for the bast fiber (also called hemp) and for the drugs it yields. table runners, and vintage furniture reupholstered in old textiles. Organic living comes naturally to Cole, and her signature pieces show how chic and responsible green can be. 20 WAYS TO LIVE GREEN page 29 Green design has hit a watershed moment: the landscape is flourishing with a variety of new and beautiful materials and furnishings at a range of prices. House & Garden reports on 20 innovators and innovations to help readers achieve an eco-chic look and sustainable lifestyle. Follow the lead of active eco-enthusiasts, including Clint Eastwood. THROUGH A GLASS BRIGHTLY page 48 Having recently completed the new west wing of the Meinel Building at the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. , architect James Richard and interior designer Kelly Bauer are proving that it is no longer necessary to choose between beauty and function in today's world of university architecture. The new optics wing, which reflects the high quality of research pursued at the university, demonstrates the power that light possesses to transform the solidity of architecture as well as illuminate our most profound perceptions of life. THE SUN KING page 74 Sometimes the starts align to connect a client with the right designer. Such is the case with New York designer Michael Simon, who, working with architect Jeffery W. Smith, reinvented a 1960s house on Florida's Intracoastal Waterway as a sophisticated Palm Beach home, filled with dazzling light and shimmering shim·mer intr.v. shim·mered, shim·mer·ing, shim·mers 1. To shine with a subdued flickering light. See Synonyms at flash. 2. , artisanal details. DON'T FENCE ME IN page 66 What started as a mere remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling became a full-scale building project for architect Janet Jarvis of the Jarvis Group. Reclaimed wood and an outdoor dining room with a steel trellis 1. Trellis - An object-oriented language from the University of Karlsruhe(?) with static type-checking and encapsulation. 2. Trellis - An object-oriented application development system from DEC, based on the Trellis language. (Formerly named Owl). were just some of the ingredients that helped create to a handsome contemporary structure in the rugged Idaho terrain. THE RAINWATER SOLUTION page 58 House & Garden peers into the most ambitious horticultural project in the United States: Kansas City, Missouri's 10,000 Rain Gardens Initiative, a commitment by the city government and local residents to make 10,000 gardens designed to trap and cleanse storm water runoff before it enters the municipal sewer system. The five-year plan is an incentive for private citizens to install do-it-yourself water treatment facilities, otherwise known as rain gardens. House & Garden is the only magazine that shows more than 5.7 million affluent readers how great design can touch their lives. It is a 2006 ASME ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers nominee for General Excellence and is a Conde Nast Publication. |
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