i heard a rumor... (domino REVIVED!)

domino's new splash page- it would seem they are gearing for a relaunch!

all those rumors about the late, great, domino magazine being revived seem to be true! just got the following press release, and on facebook, the long dormant domino magazine page is inviting peeps to follow them on twitter, and to "stay tuned for future updates!"

and now, rumored new market editor, matt sanders, has confirmed it all on twitter. will it be a print mag? online? monthly or quarterly or special edition? , adn the big question, will it be just like the old domino, or better, or worse? your guess is as good as mine, but ANY addition to to our little decorating-focused world is always welcomed! exciting stuff!

update- curbed says it will be special editions only, one scheduled for spring and one for fall.  i dunno- if they've hired a market editor, wouldn't you think it will turn into something a bit more frequent? wishful thinking? time will tell...
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get black, white and BOLD with m21 at joss & main!

so if you haven't yet visited my black, white and BOLD curated sale over at joss & main, ya better hurry- stuff is selling out fast! and if y'all say to yourself, "maison21, i don't need any of those things, and even if i did buy sumpthin', it's all such a mish-mash of different styles, i'd *never* know how to put them together! "

well, here's a little example created on olioboard to show you how that mish-mash can turned into chic and collected in no time at all! black, white and BOLD, easy as 1-2-3!  ;-)

now get on over to joss & main and buy some bw&b goodness, k? then don't forget to come back and enter our fantabulous brizo faucet giveaway - two chances to win!

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best giveaway ever! (a brand new brizo faucet!)

as my friends, jill of material girls and erica of EMI interior design are excitedly tweeting away about their upcoming fashion week trip to see the jason wu show in NYC, sponsored by brizo, i was reminded of some unfinished business from my own brizo fashion week adventure, and that business involves YOU!

last september when the brizo people were acquainting us with their brand,  the group of designers i was part of couldn't have been more excited when the brizo peeps announced  "ladies and gentlemen, look under your seats- you're all going home with a brand now brizo faucet!"  (please read in your best booming oprah voice).  i mean flown to new york, wine, dined and limoed around to one of the hottest fashion shows of fashion week, and sent home with a fabulous brizo smart touch faucet with a list price of around 700 bucks? really? those brizo folks know how to treat a designer right!

you get to pick venuto

so m21 came home with a gift certificate for a fancy-schmancy single -hole, deck mounted kitchen faucet that he unfortunately couldn't use as his kitchen is a wide-spread wallmount. (and boy are we bummed- pull-down nozzle = heaven). we've held on the certificate thinking we'd use it for a client kitchen remodel, but you know what? in the last 6 months we haven't touched a kitchen job, and we don't have any on the horizon either, so YOU, my lucky readers will be the recipient of brizo's largess and one of you will win either a beatiful talo or venuto faucet in your choice of finish!

or talo

of course, there is a catch- isn't there always?  but it's not a horrible catch- you just need to go to facebook and like my maison21 page. see, not so horrible, right? come back here after you are done, and let me know you "liked" me by sending an email with "BRIZO" in the subject, along with with your name (so i can check to make sure you really like me) and which faucet you've picked, venuto or talo.  if you already "like" my page, just send the email with BRIZO in the subject, and let me know you are an old skool m21 liker...

imma pick the winner by random number generator in one week, and will contact you to get your mailing info if you're the lucky one. just a warning- you can't have anything but the faucet listed on the above card, and you can't bug the brizo to exchange it for something else, or refund it, natch- the win is for the listed item only, and is non-transferable.  the brizo peeps are being nice enough to send it to the winner, but that's it as far as their responsibility goes... and of course, you are responsible for installation, blah, blah, blah... (contest only open to US residents, by the way. sorry, my international friends- love you, but no international shipping on this one).

"but wait, m21, can i get a second chance to win?"

why yes, you can!  simply visit my joss & main curator's collection sale starting tuesday evening, january 31st at 6pm PST/9 pm EST, running through wee hours of saturday morning (3 1/2 days), and send me a second email with "BRIZO" in the subject, and the posted name & price of your favorite item from the sale (so i know you really visited and didn't just list something from the pictures i'll be posting on my blog- we're making you WORK for this faucet, right?). you don't have to buy anything of course, just let me know what you liked best from my "black, white and BOLD" curated collection- easy-peasy and double the fun!

good luck!


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vroom, vroom! (metropolis II at LACMA)

back when maison21 was just a little boy, his favorite toys were 1) legos and 2) hot wheels. our indulgent mother used to let lil m21 set up giant hot wheel tracks in teh living room (the only space with enough room to make the enormous tracks m21's grandiose child mind needed ), and we'd build houses, tunnels and bridges out of our legos to compliment.

but alas, we never had enough track or enough legos to make our visions really come true, so we were completely enraptured when we visited LACMA a week ago see the installation, "metropolis II" by chris burden... our childhood dreams come to life, put in a museum, and called art. totes amazing.

burden says this about the piece: ""The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars, produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st Century city." and frankly, m21 calls bullshit- we think mr. burden is just another frustrated kid, who never had enough track or legos to build his dream, so as an adult got some wealthy art patron to give him the money to make his little boy dreams come true. ;-)

whether it's art or not, we don't know, but we do know it is totally and completely awesome (our heart literally started beating faster when we walked into the installation), and since LACMA is only 4 blocks from teh atelier, we plan on visiting it many more times over its ten year run at the museum. we also suggest if you have a little boy in your life, you get him to LACMA stat- though be prepared for him to ask for hot wheels and legos for xmas!


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on teh pinterest pipe...

lately, we can't seem to go very long without another hit of our latest addiction, teh pinterests:

luckily, as an interior designer, collecting inspirational images is part of our job description... so we won't be sent to rehab just yet!

other peeps seem to enjoy our pins too (thanks design crisis and design manifest!), so perhaps you'd like to join us on pinterest - remember, your first taste is free!

ps- our pins are 100% pure design, never cut -  trust us, it's good sh*t.

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