See Gold Leaf Design Group at AmericasMart Atlanta!

Today's our first day in Atlanta and we're ready to show you the goods! Exhausted from the set-up but excited nonetheless. Come by, we look forward to seeing you! (High Design 1st floor, Building 2W, Booth 115)

Pick up a copy of July's Home Accents Today, our Grenada Furniture is featured on the GEO POP page, a page dedicated to market trending geometric inspired designs. Our aluminum Grenada Furniture adds magnificent texture to any landscape. Powder coated in black then hand-polished to expose highlights while leaving recessed details, these sculptural furniture pieces will maintain their luster inside or out. See dimensions and more photos of our Grenada side table and bench on our website.

Setting up shop in Atlanta

Our exhibition space has been designed. Our products for showing selected. Everything has been boxed up and shipped. Now we are busy unpacking, assembling, and getting ready to receive you all. It is AmericasMart Atlanta! From July 12 – 16th, you can find us in High Design 1st floor, Building 2W, Booth 115. Come by to see our latest products, talk to us about custom projects, and find special tradeshow floor only specials. We hope to see you there!

But if not...you'll have another chance at the end of July in Las Vegas...or in mid-August in New York as we take our show on the road. See our tradeshow schedule for more details.

With Great Pride we were in Pride

We all love a parade and we especially love the Chicago Pride Parade. Some of us were down to see it this past weekend and got an unexpected surprise...on the sumptuously decorated float for Wilmette's Chalet Nursery bobbed our Stainless Steel Ball Sway. What an explosion of botanical wonderfulness! Congratulations to them on such a great looking display. 

Now on Lifetime...

Devious Maids....starring our Stainless Steel Spheres....
oh and Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty), Dania Ramirez (Premium Rush), Susan Luci (All My Children) and others...

Based on the Mexican TV show Ellas son la Alegría del Hogar, Devious Maids is a comedy-drama that will be premiering on Lifetime shortly (though you can see the first episode online now. Our good friend (and Oscar-winning) Joel Klaff of Workroom Inc, is part of the production design team. He sent along an image of the sumptuous estate where the show is taking place showing our 26-inch brushed steel spheres floating delicately in the pool. 

Gold Leaf Design Group's 26-inch brushed stainless steel spheres on the set of Devious Maids

BEES. HIVES. AND WALL PLAY IN INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE.

We draw our inspiration from nature but sometimes that also leads to questions such as...Why do Bees make hexagons? It seems like an oddly specific shape. Why not something simpler like circles or squares? 

We’re not the only ones who have wondered this, in 36BC Roman soldier/scholar Marcus Terentius Varro suggested that maybe honey combs were hexagons because it could hold more honey for the least amount of wax. On the surface, this seems a bit off since a circle contains the most area for the least perimeter. The key is to think of not a single shape, but multiples. A honeycomb made of circles would have a lot of wasted/trapped space. You need something that nests well together so that you can get the most impact in the smallest space. Hexagons fit this bill nicely. The only other shapes that do it as well are squares and equilateral triangles and out of those three...the hexagon holds the most honey. You can read more at the NPR Science blog.

Speaking of hexagons and honeycombs and getting maxiumum impact, did you see our Bee Hive Wall Play in Interior Design’s Spring Market Tabloid? This latest addition to our Wall Play™ art line offers the durability, endless creativity and versatility you expect. Not just for vertical surfaces, we like to use them to add inexpensive splashes of color and texture almost anywhere. Beehive comes in black, cream, and goldleaf.

Now appearing on Design NY cover

One of our sales representatives spotted one of our Metal Filigree Lanterns on the cover of Design NY, a once a year magazine dedicated to presenting the "most splendid design developments of the region". It appeared as part of the living room in a modern farmhouse home in Amherst New York. The design of the house is a lovely example of rustic design coupled with eclectic and artistic elements.

Back from High Point Market

We're still unpacking from High Point Market. As always, it was equal parts exciting and exhausting.

It is great talking face-to-face with customers both old and new. So much of our time is spent in our creative walled garden in Chicago that tradeshows sometimes feel like the only social interaction with you all that we get. (Though now with our new Showroom...maybe we can see you more often!)

We also were excited to see our products outside of our exhibition space whether it was in the HGTV twitter feed or in the three macro trend exhibitions presented by High Point Markets and WSGN-HomebuildLife. We had a lot of people coming up to us having seen those juried exhibits. We had products in all three trends and had more than any other company. #keepingscore

One of the highlights for us was the BBQ at Toad Alley and sales meeting we held for our disparate and scattered sales representatives.

Our next two tradeshows are the HD Expo in Las Vegas and America's Mart in Atlanta. Take a look at our tradeshow schedule on our website for more information. We also just added the Las Vegas Market at the end of July. We hope to see you there.