Whether it's plum, violet, lavender, lilac or aubergine, purple is proving to be a popular color for new products. Filtering down from high-end furnishings even Crate & Barrel is riding the purple wave. Check out these 10 new purple products…
FIRST ROW
• 1 Folio Plum Leather Side Chair - $249 each at Crate & Barrel
• 2 Finn Juhl's Pelican Chair now available in Plum for $5,200 at DWR
• 3 Rosette Bedding in purple from Anthropologie - $48-$268
• 4 Crate & Barrel's Mimic Cubes are now available in plum - $79.95 each (may be stacked up to 4 high)
• 5 Traversina Sleeper Sofa Bed - $3,200 at DWR
SECOND ROW
• 6 Pierre Paulin's Flower Chair from Magis - $1,092 at HiveModern
• 7 Aubergine Lacquer Frames - $8.95-$12.95 from ZGallerie
• 8 Cindy Table Lamp by Ferruccio Laviani for Kartell - $218 from Hive Modern
• 9 Whistler Cork Tea Cup by Raquel Castro in purple - $10 each from MoMA Store
• 10 Fountain Wallpaper by Amy Butler for Graham & Brown in midnight colorway - $80 a roll
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Comments (14)
Beautiful range of colors. I've been working more purples into my living room. The bedroom shown, however, is a bit too goth vampire for my tastes.
Woo, love that wallpaper. We have purple coming into our house, a little at a time.
I've been looking for some Aubergine velvet draperies for by bedroom - Thought I saw some in the PB website, but alas...
I LOVE the flower chair!
Just painted my craft room a deep plum color. LOVE IT!
we just painted our bedroom SW's "Blackberry" and LOVE IT.
As a lover of all things purple/aubergine, I'm excited about what might be on offer for fall!
In my opinion the best wall color I have ever used is Sherwin Williams River Rouge. It is a dull brownish plum and I never get tired of looking at it in my dining room. With pale turquoise and olive green vases/lamps...divine.
I can easily imagine the Finn Juhl chair in a kid's room. A very, very, very nice and pricey kid's room.
Wasn't aubergine the hot couture color a few seasons back? Maybe it still is. All I know is that there were some fabulous, plummy/plumby handbags out there in designerland.
In Italy I am still seeing lots of purple and violet. Especially in house-wares and fabric! All the women in Rome, still wear black - though!
I purchased a sea-life table-cloth and it, too, had purple! Sounds weird, but it works.
(second picture: http://lapsushumanus.blogspot.com/2010/06/pop-wicker-color.html)
So, instead of redoing all of my acessories I incorporated some "purple" lavander flowers in my bathrooms.
(second and third picture: http://lapsushumanus.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring-is-here-fake-it.html)
Instantly trendy!
Purple has been the rage in Europe for a while now from fashion to home dec. I'm loving it.
@elle: your links don't work. Looks like your link format/naming convention was changed.
Oops! I tried to be subtle by using parantheses and it messed everything up!
Sea life fabric with purple:
http://lapsushumanus.blogspot.com/2010/06/pop-wicker-color.html
Flowers for instant purple pop:
http://lapsushumanus.blogspot.com/2010/03/spring-is-here-fake-it.html
Sorry to have to post it twice!
A new kitchen was out of the question when I moved into a new house last fall, so I painted my kitchen purple to tone down some nasty early-90s oak cabinets that were previously..."enhanced" with a bloodcurdling burnt orange. These shots are mid-makeover, so please excuse the mess, but you see the major improvement, right?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanandjanet/sets/72157624390262421/