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Eye Spy... Random Lights
The title for this post is a bit misleading ... you may have been expecting a mash of a bunch of different random lights. Instead, you are getting one light in particular named Random, plus a bit about one other fixture called (of course) Non Random.
Moooi is new to Gabriel Ross, but this ...
Moooi!
YAY Moooi!
Dutch for "beautiful", Moooi fulfills its name and then some. Marcel Wanders - designer of the Skygarden suspension light fixture for Flos among various other successful designs, and Casper Vissers launched the company together 2001. Moooi has since become known for life size Horse ...
Gabriel Ross 2011 Photo Contest
It's that time again... Photo contest time! w00t!
Show us your stuff! We want to see our products in your home, office, studio, or wherever they live. Send us a photo of your space featuring something you purchased at Gabriel Ross with a small description of 50 words or less, and be eligible to ...
Art In Bloom - Celebrating the Art of Gardening
Today is installation day for The Gallery of Greater Victoria's "Art In Bloom - Celebrating the art of gardening". One part of this dynamic community event is the "floral interpretations" where artists, designers, and florists create botanical interpretations of various works in the ...
Star Trek's Spock is a Modernist
Have you seen the latest Telus Optik TV commercial? It turns out that our half-Vulcan half-human friend Spock of Star Trek is a fellow Modernist. The commercial depicts Leonard Nimoy in a swanky mid century modern home receiving Telus Optik TV installation. Watching the commercial, I was supposed ...
Tired of your furniture? Compost it.
Earth friendly design lovers will be happy to hear this. You no longer have to suffer the guilt of adding another piece of unwanted furniture to the landfill thanks to french designer Elise Gabriel. Her "Zelfo Embrace" collection of furniture and lighting is adorable, functional, and ...
Tommy Sofa Bed
We received an exciting delivery a couple of weeks ago from our upholstery shop containing a new Tommy sofa bed for the showroom. Upholstered in a bright spring green and accented by cute square cushions, this piece has been getting lots of attention since it's arrival.
The mattress inside this ...
Eye Spy... Eames Sofa Compact
Sofa Compact by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller - photo: hermanmiller.com
Designed in 1954, the Sofa Compact was an adaptation from a built in sofa that Charles and Ray Eames designed for their own home in the 1940's. The freestanding version has been in production since 1954 without ...
Alessi Receives GOOD DESIGN Award
image credit: www.chi-athenaeum.org
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design has honored 5 Alessi products with their prestigious "2010 GOOD DESIGN" award: a 60 year old prestigious program of acknowledging design excellence all over the world. The 5 products that received the ...
Gabriel Ross' Very Own Bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle ... i want to ride my bike ... I want to ride my bicycle ...
Queen is right. I do want to ride my bicycle, but the snow falling in Victoria is not helping me out in this department. My hat is tipped to those die hard riders that I have seen over the past few days ...