Rose Tarlow

<span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“(she) <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">balances emotion and intellect</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> </span>as well as any designer now living … her rooms [combine] <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);">sensual pleasures with geometric rigor</span>, and every one of them is simultaneously a lesson in design and a lesson in living.” </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">-<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Paul Goldberger on Rose Tarlow</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6690318951_7b1556e3f2_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6690318951_7b1556e3f2_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 701px; height: 702px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Buttercup Pendant"</span> : dark rusty distressed iron finish with resin sleeve. </span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />What is perfection, anyhow?</span><br /><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">In a recent article I read on Rose Tarlow, a Los Angeles based designer, she mentioned that 20 years ago, an ivy vine meandered through a crack in her home's window. 20 years later, the vine cascades down the walls, a testament to time passing. Stories like this leave a permanent imprint in my mind on "imperfection" and design. For Rose, homes should be imperfect, calm, and strive to be unpretentious.<br /><br />Stories are told, and as the years pass, her work takes a deeper effect on my own design work. Designers such as Rose Tarlow and Ilse Crawford (to simply name a few) push simplicity, history, and elegance to a new height in their work. Utilizing recognizable forms, allowing the rooms to take on their own life, as if the rooms had always been there, (this is no easy feat friends.) </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Masters at work.</span><br /><br style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-style: italic;">- David John</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6690409473_9d144ef85a_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7029/6690409473_9d144ef85a_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 699px; height: 704px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />"Blotto Desk"</span> : French Ash Veneer with six drawers in medium wood stain</span><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span>“<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">I am a solitary person</span>.</span> I like working alone and making my own design decisions.<br /><br />I have an obsession for buying lovely things, so I occasionally consult on building a collection of antiques and art.”</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6690342559_86271a4a2a_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6690342559_86271a4a2a_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 701px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />"Chinese Ceramic Jar Lamp"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">- Original Brown Round shouldered, ceramic in original brown finish.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://rosetarlow.com/index.php"><br />Rose Tarlow</a></span></span><a href="http://rosetarlow.com/index.php"> </a>is one of the most influential designers working in America today. She founded her company more than 30 years ago on once-secluded Melrose Place and has built a reputation for the finest furniture, textiles and accessories ever since. Working with local craftsmen who share her impeccable standards for the highest quality,<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"> Tarlow knows that creating a truly beautiful room is as much an emotional matter as it is one of color, light and products.</span><br /><br />As an internationally-renowned furniture and fabric artisan, interior designer, antiquarian and author, her creations have enchanted the design community. According to New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger, Tarlow “balances emotion and intellect as well as any designer now living … her rooms [combine] sensual pleasures with geometric rigor, and every one of them is simultaneously a lesson in design and a lesson in living.” All the products are offered through the company’s flagship on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, and are represented by the finest multi-line designer trade showrooms across the country. "<a href="http://rosetarlow.com/pdfs/1267814859RTMHNYCrelease3110.pdf"><span style="font-style: italic;"> (text taken from here)</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://rosetarlow.com/index.php" style="font-weight: bold;"><br />visit Rose Tarlow house here..</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thestylesaloniste.com/2009/10/designer-i-love-rose-tarlow-rose-tarlow.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Read a piece on Rose Tarlow on Style Saloniste here..</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/06/garden/perfect-taste-and-a-client-list-to-prove-it.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Also, in the NY TIMES here...</span></a><br /><br /><br /><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--------------</span><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">

Rose Tarlow

. “(she) balances emotion and intellect as well as any designer now living … her rooms [combine] sensual pleasures with geometric rigor , ...

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<span style="font-style: italic;">"Seems as if we're circling</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> for very different reasons</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> But one day <span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the Eagle </span></span>has to land"</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6284048702_024ce67f5c_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6092/6284048702_024ce67f5c_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 759px; height: 756px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6283529919_edbe3f056f_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6283529919_edbe3f056f_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 692px; height: 1024px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Rose Tarlow</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br />vs<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Georges Jouve</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"a simple desire for the forms to tell the story."</span><br /><br />"<a href="http://www.magenxxcentury.com/designers/georges-jouve/"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Georges Jouve</span></span></a> is known as one of <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">the most important ceramists of the 20th century.</span></span> He succeeded in modernizing the art of pottery by developing unique techniques motivated by his <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">individual style of sensual and sometimes ironic creations that illustrate a subtle combination of rigor, savoir-faire and imagination</span></span>.<br /><br />Jouve graduated from the prestigious Ecole Boulle where he received both theoretical instruction in Art History in addition to his technical studies as a sculptor. During World War II, Jouve was captured by the Germans, escaped from a camp and took refuge at his step parents home in a potters village in the South of France called Dieulefit. During that period, Jouve learnt from the local potter's traditions. He created <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">decorative objects modeled in clay</span></span> and inspired by the religious figurines that were common in that region. In 1944, Jouve opened his studio in Paris and was invited by<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Jacques Adnet</span></span> to participate in the exhibitions of the Compagnie des Arts Francais. He subsequently participated annually in numerous 'Salons' in France and internationally: Salon des Artistes decorateurs in Paris, Association Francaise d'Action Artistique in Rio de Janeiro, and Vienna, Toronto, Rome and Cairo."<a href="http://www.magenxxcentury.com/designers/georges-jouve/"><span style="font-style: italic;"> (text from here)</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Go to </span><a href="http://rosetarlow.com/light-detail.php?subcat=42" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rose Tarlow</span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />"I have always had an aversion<br />to the concepts of in style and out of style."</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANtxWeDIidI" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANtxWeDIidI" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">lyrics from here.</a>

"Seems as if we're circling for very different reasons But one day the Eagle has to land" Rose Tarlow vs Georges Jouve ...

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