Gold Leaf in Interior Design Magazine Spring Market Tabloid

We look forward to the Market Tabloids (both Spring and Fall) from Interior Design Magazine. They are showcases of some of the most interesting and evocative decor out there, so of course we're always pleased when we appear in its pages. For this year's Spring issue, you can find us in:

Fabric / Wallcovering for our Twister Fabrics (part of Muse Modern™)
Outdoor with our Love and Me benches (also Muse Modern)
and a whole page in Furniture!

Pick up your copy today.

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Other Interhall exhibitors join us...

Darren has gotten fired up. Ever since our decision to donate 1% of our High Point sales to Equality NC, he has made it a mission to spread the word and encourage others to participate. We're pleased that many of our fellow Interhall exhibitors have agreed. Among those who have made the commitment are:

• Bungalow 5

• Aviva Standoff,

• Natural Curiosities

• Seasonal Living

• Luna Bella

• Nima Oberoi Lunares 

And more are joining every day. Just yesterday the movement spread out of Interhall with the addition of Made Goods. 

We couldn't be happier to have all of these great companies standing together and working to make a positive change. We'd also like to give an extra THANKS! to Bungalow 5 for taking such an active role and helping us stay organized and ever growing. 

Hope everyone has a great market.

Read more about the issue here.

High Point and North Carolina HB2

When the North Carolina state legislature rushed through HB2 (a one day special session??) and Governor McCrory signed it that evening(!?), we started a conversation internally to determine how we wanted to respond. High Point Market was coming up and it is an important event for us and our customers....and yet this law had a direct deliterious effect to many of our friends, customers, colleagues, family, and neighbors.

What does HB2 do? Among other things, it prohibits local anti-discrimination protections for gay, bisexual and transgender people and restricts transgender bathroom use.  So a city like Charlotte, who wants to make all their citizens feel welcome and accepted, could no longer pass ordinances to effect those goals. We were deeply concerned by this law and its implications We felt it was (and is) an unfair attack on employment, education, and local governance. It encouraged discrimination and is particularly demeaning towards transgender men and women.

So...what to do? Some businesses chose to respond to stop doing business with or in the state. The reasoning is that by applying economic pressure, the state government would change course. This worked on Mike Pence in Indiana, for instance. It is can be a powerful tool, to be sure. We didn't think it was the tool for us.

One of our core values is to support and contribute to our community. We show this in many ways, such as locating our Chicago facility in an underserved neighborhood and participating in political and business committees and action groups to revitalize the area. When given the choice between a positive or a negative action, we try to always choose the positive. More engagement. Louder voices. Taking action. Therefore, we decided to stay involved in the market, be visible, and speak out. We'd find an organization to support.

After reading on the actions taken by the ACLU and Lambda Legal, we started reaching out to our customers and partners in North Carolina to see what they thought and who they would recommend. The organization that came up again and again was Equality NC. After seeing the work they accomplished on The School Violence Protection Act, their advocacy for domestic partnerships, hospital visitation rights, parental rights, and a myriad of other issues, we knew they were the organization for us. As a small organization ourselves, we appreciate the big effects dedicated and enthusiastic people can accomplish.

We reached out to them and have come up with our plan. We are proud to announce that we will be donating 1% of all our High Point Market sales to them directly. We will also have literature supporting their organization in our booth and will support their efforts going forward. If you'd like to join us in our support, contact Darren.

You can read our press release about this issue at Home Accents Today, Furniture Today, and the Greensboro News and Record.

State Dinners and Accolades

It started with a registration request on our website. The company name was unknown to us, the email address arcane. We tried to find them on the internet, but didn't find anything. So...we dropped the applicant an email to get more info.

We received a phone call...."This is Hedieh Ghaffarian. I'm the Chief Floral Designer for the White House and I'm putting together the designs for a State Dinner. I saw your Stainless Steel orbs in Atlanta and loved them."

Kevin, our webmaster, almost dropped the phone. "When do you need them?"

The answer, of course, was right away. The state dinner in question was for Prime Minister Trudeau and it was quickly approaching. We got Ms. Ghaffarian her orbs and she worked magic with them. You can see them in THIS PHOTO on the right side of Michelle Obama and Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau.

Not quite as exciting, but still very gratifying, our Gabriel Pendant Lights have been getting a lot of attention. First in the High Point Market TWITTER CHAT (which also included our INLAY STONE collection). Then in Hospitality Design and enLIGHTenment magazines.

We're very excited. You can check these out and more when we get to High Point in just a few weeks!

Gold Leaf Design Group Opens Permanent Showroom at Americasmart Atlanta

NEWSFLASH!

Gold Leaf Design Group, trend-setting home and garden product design company, debuts its exciting new permanent showroom in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 7. The gorgeous corner showroom is prominently located at Building 1, Room 9A-1 and features the company’s wide range of home décor products, including tableware, vases, sculptures, area rugs, occasional furniture, and wall decor such as its exclusive Wall Play™ line.

“We’ve been showing in Atlanta since we started.” says principal Darren DeMatoff, “It has always been a great show for us and as we’ve continued to grow it made sense to take the next step up to a permanent location there. We will be a great addition to the floor with excellent neighbors such as Luna Bella and Bo Bo Intriguing Objects.”

The opening of its second permanent showroom – the first being Las Vegas back in January  – comes as Gold Leaf Design Group enters its 21st year. “Vegas was proof that we can really shine in a permanent location.” says Darren, “It allows us to be more bold and creative in our displays and to show a wider range of our product line than ever before. Customer response was phenomenal and we met a new set of people that rarely travelled to the temporary spaces.”

Gold Leaf will be celebrating this milestone with new product launches and specials throughout the show and also with a cocktail reception and merriment on Friday, July 10 at 5pm. This celebration will be part of the Floor 9 party.

The new showroom is open year-round with appointment.

Gold Leaf Design Group in the News

We're declaring today, June 4 to be Press Day. It is a great time to share some of the exciting news going around here at Gold Leaf Design Group and to let you know where you can see us in on your news stand.

ATLANTA AMERICASMART

We're continually growing and expanding. As a part of that growth, we opened a permanent showroom in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year and we're excited to announce that we are now ALSO opening a new permanent showroom in Atlanta. Americasmart Building 1, Room #9-A1. These permanent rooms allow us to show a wider range of product and to be more creative and striking in our displays. We hope to see you at this exciting event. Read more at Home Accents Today.

DEBUTING NEW FURNITURE

We're excited to show you our new furniture lines. Hand-made from sustainable harvested acacia wood and finished with exquisite craftsmanship, these beautiful new pieces can be seen live in Atlanta. You can get a preview by seeing our Farnsworth bench and dining table, Mantis bench and dining table, and MN Tables on our website. We'll be adding to these soon. So keep checking back.

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ON YOUR NEWSTAND

Interior Design Magazine. We're excited to be showing in three categories in Interior Design magazine's Spring Market Tabloid. They kindly shared preview images with us. You can find our Twig Benches in seating; our beautiful Scratched Leather Boutique Rugs in floor coverings; and our Hanging Orb Planters in Outdoor. It is now out...get it into your hands!

Home Accents Today. Our 24" Painted Gold Leafed Canvases were declared a Best at Market product in the May 2015 issue of Home Accents Today. Display them tightly as a set or individually.

Colorado Homes & Lifestyles. Our friends at Birdsall & Co appeared in Colorado Homes & Lifestyles with our popular Column Candle Vases as one of the 10 Things to Light up the Night.

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Congratulations to HOK and Martin Katz

A while back, we had shared photos of Martin Katz's & HOK's Jewel Suite at the New York Palace Hotel. The whole suite is exquisitely outfitted with great care. We were excited to see our Gold Seed Wall Play™had been used as part of the design, as well as our enamel bowls which had been customized and put to unexpected use on the walls.

We're very pleased, therefore, to have seen that the Jewel Suite had been named "Best Suite in the World" with a Gold Key Award for excellence at the 2014 International Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Show. Martin Katz and HOK created a 3 level jewel box of a space that includes a Grand Reception Foyer, "The Diamond Boudoir Sitting Room", and much more. The team was recognized for its vision and attention to detail in creating this extraordinary suite.

Congratulations!

You can read more about the award at Hospitality Net and HOK's website. See more photos at Interior Design magazine.

Fantastic Chicago Talent

Interior designer David Hopkins has a problem...a most glorious one. He has an excess of ideas and an abundance of energy. How do we know? We looked at some of his work.

David wrote to us after registering on our website and shared photos of an apartment he sublets here in Chicago. The photos used our Beehive Wall Play in a beautiful installation, so we wrote him back to get the scoop on his work.

As it turns out, David rents 6 apartments. He sublets all 6 of them and uses them as personal, ever-changing canvases in which to explore and create. He keeps a collection of materials in his "hoarder's storage room" in the basement and swaps out pieces as needed or when inspiration strikes. He keeps himself in a 40-foot closet that is barely large enough to fit a twin bed. David finds it a cozy place to sleep and we're sure he doesn't spend much time in it..too much to do...too much to create.

His (sub)tenants love their high-fashion apartments. His management company does as well. They call him a "one-of-a-kind tenant" and look forward to charging a bit more in rent for the spaces once David has moved on. Of course if they read the New York Times article on David and his plans for the kitchen, we fear they going to be disappointed.

See David's awesome Wall Play™ installation below and check out more photos of this and his other apartments at Homepolish.

David Hopkins works for Interior Elements

Getting Excited for Spring Shows

2015 is right around the corner. We are planning and finalizing our show displays and receiving the first of the the show catalogs like AmericasMart Atlanta where we were featured in their Worlds of Wonder picks. We are looking forward to showing you our new collections.

In Other Exciting News

Las Vegas market has a brand new section and in it...we have a brand new permanent showroom in Las Vegas! Help us inaugrate it by making it our most visited space ever. Come to Building C,  Showroom #502 and you can see how we have decked it out January 18–22. 

Where else to find us

We are all over the country in the spring. Check out our Trade show schedule on when and where to find us in Atlanta, Las Vegas, High Point and New York. And check back now and then as we might add a show or two. We might be near YOU.

Love for Wall Play

As we are designers/manufacturers/wholesalers...we are a step removed from the final customer of our products. We hear from store owners and interior designers that *their* customers love this or that, but we often do not get to hear directly from people who have the day-to-day experience with them. Of course that makes the times we *do* hear from people all the more special.

Sara wrote us about our gold 'Seed' Wall Play™. Her family's home had been featured in Austin Texas arts and culture magazine Tribeza. She took that opportunity to let us know what she thought of our modular little sculptures...

I randomly came across the wall play products and knew they were perfect for our space. We didn't want a painting but we wanted something with texture. The seeds are perfect and they were so easy to install. We walk by them every day and smile. I just love them.

Thank you for making such a cool product. I do boring technical work all day and I'm always so impressed with other peoples' creativity.

Keep creating!
Sara

Check out the article in the October issue of Tribeza. It starts on page 56. Their home is new construction but looks lived in...it offers high design but is child friendly. A great example of playful sophistication...something we can get behind 100%.

Gold Leaf in the News

This was a busy month for us here at Gold Leaf! We were featured in 4 magazines this month, and we're excited to share. Not to brag, but we're pretty proud of it.  

We're pleased to be in Hospitality Design Magazine with our ceramic Athena vases. The calming blue and geometric pattern makes this a beautiful accent piece. 

Home Accents Today featured our Organic Glass bowl in this issue. Each piece is carefully handmade, giving each a unique shape and variety in color. With flowers or candles inside, or even as a sculptural piece, this glass is perfect in any space. 

Look for us in Interior Design magazine this month too! Our seed Wall Play was used with customized versions of our enamel bowls to create a sophisticated retreat in the Jewel Suite. 

Social media brought us a new project as well! While browsing through pinterest (one of my favorite pastimes) we're always looking for interesting uses of our products. 

This amazing house in Krakow, Poland used our Ball Chain as a staircase accent piece. 

Look for our 4th feature in an upcoming blog post! 

Look who else likes our Handmade Paper

Hospitality Design included our paper in the August issue in their "Prints and Patterns" Trends section. And then, while at NYNow, our papers caught the eye of Rug News and Design's writer Marjorie Hill who was Walking the Market.

As mentioned last time, we have six beautiful and versatile styles of paper rolls as well as five unique wall art pieces that are already framed and ready for hanging. Take a look at our site.

And...spoilers....we're looking to expand our offerings in the new year.
We can hardly wait to show you.

What to do with our paper?

Our paper always attracts a lot of attention at trade shows. People love the color, the detail, the texture, and more. Something we've heard (or overheard at times) is..

"It is so lovely...but what could I do with it?"

Rug News and Design mentioned a few options... Room Screen, Wallpaper, a backdrop for a shop display. All great ideas. We've been liking the three-dimensional aspect of displaying the paper in soft rolls. It drapes well with the grain. As you can see.

We love seeing what our customers do with our pieces. Recently we received a photo from ID Design in Cincinnati. Carol Grubb, one of the owners, had a home in Cincinnati's Homearama showcase. She used our Solar paper as a wall-mounted "headboard". We love it.

Sustainable Good Press

We were pleased to see our framed handmade paper included in Interior Design's Spring Market Tabloid. These striking pieces of art are Earth-friendly. We take recycled cardboard, newspaper, sawdust, pineapple fiber, banana fiber and grasses and use traditional Japanese paper making techniques to create a dimensional display of texture and pattern.

We have a variety of styles and sizes. We also have six styles of paper rolls that look great on walls, as shown by our friends at Clarke and Co Design.

We also found our Woven Rubber Wall Art in the pages of Hospitality Design. Handcrafted from used rubber inner tubes reclaimed from the world’s abundant motorbikes and trucks. Each inner tube has served its purpose and has reached the end of its useful life…for transportation. Collected from repair shops and long distance truck depots, each inner tube has its own characteristics, identity and story. The rubber is cleaned, matched to each design, cut and then arranged into shape, creating a soft and durable outdoor safe piece of functional art. 

We have these sustainable products as both Round and Square versions. Check out all our Sustainable collections.

Travelling with Gold Leaf

Summer is here, though you would not know it by the weather. It has been struggling to reach 70 degrees for the last couple of weeks, but now we are seeing some warmth. I suppose we'll be missing the cool weather in August after our eleventy-billionth 90+ day. In thinking about summer, we think about travel. Gold Leaf Design Group's creations can be found the world over...

Looking for some place warm and languid? For the Westin Grand Cayman Seven Mile Beach Resort, we created a custom wall installation for their beachside dining space. Or maybe a historic Italian village complete with crypts and caves is more your taste? Chicago architect Patrizio Fradiani created a whimsical Wall Play™ installation as part of the spectacular Domus Civita. If either location would like me to come in as a "consultant" to inspect the work, I'm sure I could be convinced.

Did you see us in April?

The April Home Accents Today included our resin agate boxes. These great and colorful boxes come in two sizes and three colors...and all of them are gift boxed. They would look great on a shelf, desk, or wardrobe.

Even in the Courthouse...

You can't escape Gold Leaf Design Group. We continue to pop up in the most unexpected of places. After dodging / delaying my summons a couple of times (I had a catalog to put together), I finally fulfilled my civic obligation and made my way to the Cook County Courthouse in Maywood...on the snowiest day we'd had in a couple of hours. (It has been very snowy...maybe you've noticed?)

I on the far northeast side of Chicago. Google maps said it would take 35 minutes to get in with no traffic. I tripled that time, giving myself over an hour and a half...and still I was late. I was not the latest to arrive. I think everyone was forgiving.

After receiving the waiting room instructions and unpacking my computer to do a bit of work I spied the Victoria magazine. "Oh," I thought "we were to be in that. Hmmm...I don't think I ever saw the actual publication...what are the odds that...."

And there we were.

It makes the 4 hour round trip journey + sitting in a jury room for 7 hours worth it.
Almost.

Sort of.

Hard at work for 2014

Sorry for the radio silence. We've been hard at work putting together the new catalog. Hopefully we can share some sample spreads in a bit. Until then...check out our Facebook cover and profile picture for a taste...!

Meanwhile, we've been in three more magazines. Two regarding High Point and one for hospitality design.

Our new Geo Pop Bowls and Trays were listed as one of the best of show. These baskets are colorful and huge...ranging from 14.5" diameter all the way to 35.5" diameter. They look fabulous as a wall hanging.

Home Accents Today also used one of our chisel planters to illustrate the hot Black trend. The cylinder is now sold out, though we still have Rectangular Chisel Planters. Of course, we have many other black pieces such as Shell Chisel sculptures, Poppy Vases, Geo Pillows, and more.

Hotel Design, in an article about the changing nature and look of hotel lobbies, shows a lovely example of our ever popular Wall Play™ in the background.

Making Discoveries while Cleaning House

We are not quite done with the 2013 trade shows. High Point Market starts October 19. We actually sent our crack Trade Show Team(tm) out there to set up a few weeks early. We decided that being exhausted from working days and days straight making everything perfect when the show opened was no way to go through life. So this time, we're out early...setting up...coming home to rest up...then going out again to see all you lovely people.

Before Allan left, he decided to wreak some order on his office. Allan's office is a swirling mass of creativity and projects. He has cut outs and drawings on his walls (and desk and, occasionally, floor)...there are samples for review and prototypes for exploration. There are also catalogs and magazines galore. During this clean up he found some press that we had not noted before! 

In June 2012, Canadian House and Home showed our Mason Jars in a feature about summer styles.  Flowers & was looking forward to spring in their February 2012 issue and appreciated the natural look of our Manzanita branches for one of their arrangements. Finally, close to home, Chicago magazine's Home and Garden issue focused on great lighting options of which our basket lanterns were one.

More In the News...

Gold Leaf Design Group continues to be found in the most interesting of places. First we found ourselves in the great home decor/travel/design/entertaining/culture magazine Anthology courtesy of our friends (and April 2013 Featured Customer) at Flora Grubb. She took our Large Polyhedron Sculpture and paired with tillandsia for a great table piece.

Then the November/December issue of Hobby Farm Home goes to show that our metal Firewood Holders remain popular. As they say in certain quarters..."Winter is coming" so be prepared *and* elegant.

Vote for Us in the Best of the Year Awards!

We recently completed a design for JCJ Architecture. They were commissioned to design the Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Hotel and Casino, which is situated along the Rio Grande. The design, inspired by the Texas landscape, called for vivid colors and textural contrast throughout the hotel. Our mission was to create a series of divider screens reminiscent of fiery Texas sunsets. We think our Sun-Kissed dyed hardwood arrangements succeed admirably! We and JCJ Architecture were so pleased with the result that we've entered it into the Interior Design Best of the Year Awards. The first round curating is done by YOU! If you are an Interior Designer, Architect, Industrial Designer, or in a similar field, please give us your vote!

Did you know that you might have already SEEN our Sun-Kissed Dividers? Hospitality Design magazine declared them a work of art by including them in a feature on...well..Art! We were also pleased to see our incredibly versatile Rubber Woven Wall Art in their article on Recycled Earth-friendly products. Waterproof, durable, great indoors or out and alone or in multiples, we have been happy with how much notice these pieces have been getting.