What great lines you have!

The Helios chair from Spigoli Vivi is part chair part night light. The Italian design duo wanted to solve the "improper use of a chair" when used as a bed side table - which I'm sure most of us did at some point during college. Now you have a piece that correctly functions as both. Some of their other products hide lighting in interesting ways too. Check out Stick. All of the headers on the website are in English but all the content is in Italian so maybe some of you out there can glean some further insight into their inspiration.

Hodnebo is a Norwegian furniture and accessory company with a very comfy residential feel. The Spinnaker chair uses old boat sails for the sling support topped with an upholstered cushion. The sloping, cradling shape is supposed to be good for blood flow and for the back, but also mimics the shape of an actual spinnaker sail. The steel framing and hardware also found inspiration in boat rigging. So on those freezing cold Norwegian winter days, you can curl up in your sail chair and dream of those cold Norwegian summer days on the water.

No really, check out the lines on that chair! The Tour Lounge from Aprro Design (you will have to navigate from the menu on the left) has a singular support that comes up from the base. This allows the seat to give with what I think would be a fair amount of bounce, but it also rotates around the base. The angle of the seat compliments the angle of the support and the mirrored finish on the base minimizes its appearance. Be sure to click through their other designs. The JFK series looks great too.

YAYA Originals

Wall Hanging

Curtain Panels, Pillows

Hand Crafted Chair

Framed Carpet Sample

This week the Delta Regional Chapter of the International Interior Design Association held their annual Holiday Party for their New Orleans center. Along with the food, drinks, and Toys for Tots, the event held the concluding silent auction for their fall IIDA Gives Back program. This year's program partnered with YAYA Inc. to create a competition for their young artists to design a fabric, a rug, and a piece of furniture. The artists were introduced to the world of Interior Design through talks with reps, designers and manufacturers along with factory tours and design critiques. The entries were judged and the winning pieces were actually created to be auctioned off at the party.

The top two pictures are the fabric designed by Donnie de Frazier. The artist worked with Purple Monkey

to sharpen up the repeat and the fabric was printed in different scales in their shop here in New Orleans.

The chair was designed by Jourdan Barnes and built by Dutel Homes in their newly relocated shop in Lacombe, LA. The chair will continue to auction for another week and you can contact YAYA for information.

The rug was designed by Quinton "Que" Gilmore and produced my Avenue Rugs. The photo here shows a framed sample that was auctioned, but there was also an actual 4x6 rug for auction as well.

The auction was a success with all the proceeds going to YAYA Inc., and as part of their philosophy, each artists gets a percentage of those sales.