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'Wall Street Crash Sale' at Deeply Madly Living

October Sales...
Thundersley Village Sale
• Up to 15% off silk taffeta fabrics, wall coverings, furniture, drapery, and more.
• October 13th through October 31st
• 37 W. 37th St., nr. Fifth Ave., 5th fl. 212.889.1917

>> Enter Kate's Gallery

Kate Smith, of Sensational Color, was our third and final expert color panelist at last week's meetup Kate is a professional color consultant. She has that rare and utterly enigmatic job of determining the colors people are going to want to put in their homes three to five years from now....

Bernini, one of the companies represented at the Living Home in Soho

Art & Design Events...

AT Events:

• October is Color Month!
• Our Fall Colors Contest is underway.

>> Enter Mark's Gallery

Mark Chamberlain, artist and house painter extraordinaire, was our second presenter at last week's meetup and boy does he have a way with color! Whereas Gideon prefers a uniform, but subtly shifting palette, Mark goes for high contrast....

The room divider keeps coming up--in the form of a bookcase, a screen or a huge wonderful piece of fabric. Axel and Sylvia have a home that morphs into a gallery space at times. To achieve the smooth transition between living and entertaining, they use a curtain. It's a great way to visually close off a room, and if the fabric is heavy enough, it offers the added value of some sound attenuation as well.

Enter Gideon's Gallery

Gideon Gelber, architect was our first presenter at last thursday's AT Offline. Gideon, in addition to being an incredibly talented designer, is a person obsessed with color. Gideon, through research, experience and a couple of long talks with the chemists at Benjamin Moore, knows the behavior of paint. His knowledge is impressive...

Name: Paul and Yessy
Location: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (above a laundromat)
Size: 900 sqft, 1.5 bdrm rental
My/Our style: comfortably cluttered

>>Enter Housetour Gallery

When I walked into the apartment, I was floored at what I saw literally hundreds of stick puppets spanning 70 years of Indonesian puppetry lined up on eight tiers alongside one wall of the living room.

When I looked at him with my dropped jaw, Paul said, I have a very tolerant wife. Over the years he has upgraded his collection, selling the less desirable ones and acquiring better quality puppets. Paul's wife affectionately refers to Paul's collection as "the Mercedes Benz we'll never own."

This week's Hot Posts drew you in and inspired great discussion. Thanks for getting involved, and staying involved, in our community!

Click here to find the answers to burning design questions, great new ideas as well as the hottest of the hot--old posts that AT'ers can't stop reading.

• What: AT Offline Design Meetup
• Next Month: Color At Home: Problems & Solutions
• Members: 717 and growing
• RSVP's: Sign Up Here!!
• When: 6:30-9pm, Thursday, October 2nd (Panel starts at 7, but come early to schmooze, sip a glass of wine, and munch on a snack)
• Where: DWR new SoHo flagship store, 110 Greene St. (Prince/Houston)

We'll have some great guests... all with great know-how on color, and a great virtual house tour!

If you have something to share (design related) with the crowd, write to jill *at* apartmenttherapy *dot* com to reserve a shout-out spot...

Ochre is having a sale!

October Sales...
Ochre Sale
• Up to 70% off Snooze and Divine Recline collections and lighting collection
• Through October 14th
• 462 Broome St., nr. Mercer St. 212.414.4332

Spring's Opening of a matter of Life or Death is this Thursday!

Art & Design Events...

AT Events:

• October is Color Month!
• Our Fall Colors Contest is underway.

It's that time of year again, when we go crazy for color. For me, it's a time to think about stripes. LJ's effort, seen above, is a great example of a way to leave your mark on a room with a little painter's tape and some left over paint....

Name: Matilda and Diego
Location: Brooklyn Heights
Size: 860 sqft 2 bdrm condo
Favorite: Her son's newly created bedroom because of the light it gets

Enter Gallery Slideshow

"This is my rebellion," says Matilda when referring to her apartment on the first floor of a 50's era apartment building in Brooklyn Heights. Other than college, Matilda has always lived in Brooklyn. Much of that time was spent in a brownstone in Cobble Hill.

This week's Hot Posts drew you in and inspired great discussion. Thanks for getting involved, and staying involved, in our community!

Click here to find the answers to burning design questions, great new ideas as well as the hottest of the hot--old posts that AT'ers can't stop reading.