Designers Allison Goldenstein and Lesley Provenzano find success with treasured poodles, hard work, and lots and lots of glass. Mixed-Up Mosaics co-founders Allison Goldenstein and Lesley Provenzano started small. True, their vivid installations now adorn interiors for such top companies as Disney, Burger King and ESPN, but it wasn’t always that way. The two began […]
Architect Frank Gehry Barks About Carp and Creativity!
Since childhood, this world famous architect has had a fascination with the piscine form. It shows in his designs. The well-known expression “think outside the box” aptly describes architect Frank Gehry’s defiantly un-square buildings. Except Gehry doesn’t just think outside the box. He takes the box apart, cutting out sections, stripping away surfaces, and showing […]
‘Oh My Cat?’ – The Perfect Purr-fume for the Feline in your Life!
Humans have about five million cells devoted to the sense of smell. Cats have close to two hundred million, and so could be the choosiest fragrance customers on the planet. Nevertheless, Parisian perfumiers Laurent Jugeau, Etienne de Swardt and Olivier Echaudemaison remain undaunted. Their scent for felines, Oh My Cat?, hit stores worldwide […]
Personal Shoppers Lisa B. and Mosley Share Their Tips for Shopping with Personal Pup Flair!
Personal Shoppers Lisa B. and Mosley introduce Animal Fair to a dog’s-eye-view of New York’s hottest design boutiques. The scene: A couple growing painfully frantic in a home store, the gulping would-be groom sweating bullets, the beautiful bride-to-be lightheaded, the perfect silver pattern not yet found. Desperation increases by the second. Is this […]
Designer Jes Gordon and her Boston Terrier Bark About Pets and Flowers!
“Chew through the Tulips” Designer Jes Gordon works with flowers. So does her Boston Terrier, except in a different way… Though doing so breaks her heart, designer Jes Gordon has banned her dog from the J. Gordon Designs studio. Her business is making exquisite decorations out of delicate flowers, carefully strewn pebbles, and […]
Broadway Barks 3 – ‘The Great White Way’ Goes to the Dogs!
On a sunny Saturday afternoon, “Broadway Barks III” brought the brightest lights of Broadway out in front of the Schubert Alley theater for an auction to benefit animal adoption and welfare agencies. Tireless animal activists Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore co-hosted and were joined by famous faces of the Great White […]