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DIFFA – highlights, at last!

November 7, 2007 in Events by ElizabethR | No comments

DIFFA‘s Dining By Design tabletop extravaganza swirled into Atlanta in late October, to the delight of many local designers and businesses bringing their creative edge to new heights in the name of AIDS. The event, held at Mason Murer, drew some of the city’s top talents.

Assistant Editor Kelly Kunkel and I got a sneak preview before the main event. Our favorites? The Airstream Trailor serving as the backdrop for Sandy Thigpen for Design Within Reach‘s tabletop replete with mason jar vases and gerber daisies; Waldenour‘s all-natural, organic vignettes, and Fio Pichardo of OwenLawrence‘s wedding table (Disclaimer: We’re a little biased here; Kelly’s getting married in July and I just tied the knot in September. If only we could have been so lucky to have Fio design our extravaganzas!)

From left to right: Fio Pichardo for OwenLawrence; Sandy Thigpen for Design Within Reach; Legendary Events; Stacey Sheron for StaceAge

Fio Pichardo for OwenLawrenceSandy Thigpen for DWR’s Airstream Trailor

Mid-week Highlights

October 24, 2007 in Uncategorized by ElizabethR | No comments

Atlanta’s darling Chef Kevin Rathbun announced his highly anticipated (and 14-seat only) Cooking Class lineup for 2008; The American Institue of Georgia Architects (AIA-GA) announced its Georgia Design award winners; among them, TVS Architects, Jova/Daniels/Busby, and Susan Bridge’s contemporary art gallery Whitespace, which received a First Merit Design Award for its restoration of a 100-year-old building. with “handsome details, custom fabrications of light fixtures, steel doors and an elegant plan where movable walls act as light filt” and its “concept of floating wall panels, well proportioned in the space and against the walls that are fixed or pivoting to alter the plan or reveal additional wall surface for expanded display.” Congratulations, Susan! And, finally, up this week: DIFFA Atlanta’s Dining by Design. Pictures to come tomorrow!

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AH&L’s third-annual 20 Under 40

October 22, 2007 in Uncategorized by ElizabethR | No comments

Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles is currently accepting nominations for our third-annual 20 Under 40 list. Deadline is November 12th.

Louvre Atlanta’s Second Year and Inspiring Impressionism at the High

October 11, 2007 in Events, Gallery Opening by ElizabethR | No comments

Mary Cassatt, The Family, 1893, oil on canvas
Statistics of Louvre Atlanta’s first year has directors on High

Opening simultaneously at the High Museum on Tuesday, October 16th, is the second year of Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient World and Inspring Impressionism, a unique juxtaposition of masterpieces by Monet, Cezanne and Degas with works by Titian, Rubens and Fragonard. On Tuesday, director Michael Shapiro and Louvre director Henri Loyrette opened the two exhibits for the media and revealed the astonishing success of year one: an average of 1,600 visitors coming through the High per day, or an estimated half-million in its first year. And one can only expect attendance to skyrocket with this brilliant duo of exhibits, in what is most likely the largest concentration of great art at the High since the Olympics. Pictured above: Mary Cassatt’s The Family.

—Elizabeth Reh Ralls 

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