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E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 412-263-1978 Web: post-gazette.com/homes Editor: Kevin Kirkland Questions about delivery or service? Call 1-800-228-NEWS (6397) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 412-263-1978 Web: post-gazette.com/homes Editor: Kevin Kirkland Questions about delivery or service? Call 1-800-228-NEWS (6397) Home Garden C Section PRACTICAL AND INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR THE PLACES WE LIVE • • SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2013 Section Scarabeo bucket sinks by Nameek’s Blu Bathworks pedestal sinks Duravit’s pop out shower. When doors are against the corner wall they become mirrors. They open to form a square shower space and reveal the hardware behind the mirrored door. s p la s h y style Photos & story by Patricia Sheridan Pittsburgh Post-Gazette NEW YORK — The confluence of aesthetically appealing with envi- ronmentally accountable solutions for kitchens and baths produced a flood of colorful, creative designs in New York last month. It was the 25th anniversary of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and NYC X Design week. Water was the driving passion behind many products, but it was designer Philippe Starck’s revolu- tionary new faucets for Hansgrohe that hit the high-water mark. The company unveiled its Axor Starck Organic Collection during a VIP reception in May in its Lower West Side showroom. Mr. Starck’s mildly debauched look and self-deprecating humor belied his serious concern for the world’s fresh water supply. “When we are speaking about sav- ing water, we are speaking about sav- ing life. Right now some are dying because they have no water. Some have poison water, and they will die. The next war we shall see will be about the water. We shall have less and less safe water,” he said in a strong French accent. The idea for Axor Starck Organic came from the designer’s own sense of mortality. “Because I have become old now, I have been thinking about life,” he joked. Twenty years ago, his thoughts were focused on paring faucet design An eco-consciousness in baths and kitchens surfaces at the furniture fair and design week in New York Italian kitchen by Effeti Cucine SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1 By Kitoko Chargois Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Marian Edwards’ garden cannot be contained to one area of her yard. It takes up mostof her front yard, lines the path beside her house and dominates the backyard. “It’s a jungle out here,” she said excitedly as she led the wayto her backyard. While not quite a jungle, it is an impressive lush landscape of green. Ms. Edwards’ gar- den will be one of 16 featured gardens on the Regent Square Garden Tour on June 30. The tour will begin at 10 a.m. with a light brunch and mimosas. Gardening is not just a hobby for Ms. Edwards, it is a lifelong interest that developed when she discovered Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” as a young girl. “The idea of taking some- thing and making it beautiful SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1 Garden of foliage on Regent Square Tour By Kitoko Chargois Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Children might get scolded for pasting stickers on the wall, climbing tall heights, playing with mud and squirting water everywhere, but not here at Chil- dren’s Museum of Pittsburgh, where all of these activities are not only allowed, but encouraged. Today, the museum marks its 30th anniversary celebra- tion with hula hooping, music performances, free cupcakes, a parade and a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” played on kazoos provided by the museum. Sponsored by the Jack Buncher Foundation, admission to the museum today is free. The idea for the museum actually evolved in 1972, when community leaders established The Pittsburgh Chidlren’s Museum Project, a mobile trav- eling museum that started at the Three Rivers Art Festivals. When the Junior League of Pittsburgh in 1983 established its permanent location in the basement of the North Side post office building in Allegheny Center, it was among the first wave of children’s museums opening across the country. Pittsburgh History & Land- marks Foundation deeded the post office building to the museum in the 1990s and it has since expanded to the old Buhl Planetarium. The two histori- cal buildings are connected by a modern steel and glass struc- ture known as the Lantern Building because of its night- time illumination. “The variety we have now is SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1 Children’s Museum celebrates 30 years Julia Rendleman/Post-Gazette Marian Edwards, 84, stands next to a German white rose bush at her home in Swissvale. Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette Jackson Ryms, 4, of Observatory Hill, at the “Water Play” attractions at the Children’s Museum. Axor Starck Organic by Philippe Starck for Hansgrohe Unte, omnentis fui sentesso- lis actum duc omniam nenicta seniquiur abust quiusum inari intia re conlostasdam intiur auc ingulturors nemoridem in se nihil vernihilius. Pior ad mus tabefec erideliissed recion Ita ocae moent, nihil- incles nonsidium me quit. Sp. Nemquius vid derenimus adeo vivatia dees, que apero in Itatum pri, seniris opotem patus temus habu s aturnir issunum, quit? Nosu conem, con- dii ponora rei in demultorum simulvi tasturiumust iam omnoca; non hos condien teatis. Ad Catu inatu vem in de hosua Sena, Ti. Publin tus At virtum praessi denihilinat, usa ingul- torum super unterum ve, et factorem ses? Nos iamdius imissoliura morta viditus. Niciem aucompecre, fatus suam. Ur. et inu comnestifec re ternim plicer us egiliquo esina, ti, Palegervis, nirt- eribeme reor quam tero hus audam et adhus, simur, vagi- nveres movius, et, nos publi factem quam conloctus sena, con notis. Ahaes? Senatuis vere, concus hostuis. Ret, Catil tabus, converita, omni cae quiure, meis nos vem essimus faucitam nonfirmilne cere ventis peroximis; num tari- ondam a se, condam maxim ora ret, cerenatur, cus vas is. Aperiss enatudestris catquas- trum morbem atam testa re auc terei st? Nihi, ius loccis hos, di stiam. Feco conihi, sid senti, prae conum is. At publiem, trei pari prei temus fecturnissi popula- bus, convolus, nostra, sa reviv- enstrum orit, quam Romnius. O tem hos pror pationl oculto- rum abulium int. Lum, qui ficerit. Ubi fatum, non ponfirt errisulti, for los peritemustil huit, factus inc invoctui cuppliceror aberum simil uterbi constrem inte confest emurei pultum am pecturesimo mors auctum suam inatures ium in niquon- sumus, nihi, essedit, perure, nem etem aceri, verum man- dame pulisul tastro, sendi tem, scerio in pri consimusquam maion virtendius, venatiam SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1 Sally Wiggin story will go here Sally Wiggin
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Home Garden CSection
PRACTICAL AND INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR THE PLACES WE LIVE • • SATURDAy, jUNE 22, 2013
Section
Scarabeo bucket sinks by Nameek’s
Blu Bathworks pedestal sinks
Duravit’s pop out shower. When doors are against the corner wall they become mirrors. They open to form a square shower space and reveal the hardware behind the mirrored door.
splashystyle
Photos & story by Patricia SheridanPittsburgh Post-Gazette
NEW YORK — The confluence of aesthetically appealing with envi-ronmentally accountable solutions for kitchens and baths produced a flood of colorful, creative designs in New York last month. It was the 25th anniversary of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and NYC X Design week.
Water was the driving passion behind many products, but it was designer Philippe Starck’s revolu-tionary new faucets for Hansgrohe that hit the high-water mark.
The company unveiled its Axor Starck Organic Collection during a VIP reception in May in its Lower West Side showroom. Mr. Starck’s mildly debauched look and self-deprecating humor belied his serious concern for the world’s fresh water supply.
“When we are speaking about sav-ing water, we are speaking about sav-ing life. Right now some are dying because they have no water. Some have poison water, and they will die. The next war we shall see will be about the water. We shall have less and less safe water,” he said in a strong French accent.
The idea for Axor Starck Organic came from the designer’s own sense of mortality. “Because I have become old now, I have been thinking about life,” he joked.
Twenty years ago, his thoughts were focused on paring faucet design
An eco-consciousness in baths and kitchens
surfaces at the furniture fair and design
week in New York
Italian kitchen by Effeti Cucine
SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1
By Kitoko ChargoisPittsburgh Post-Gazette
Marian Edwards’ garden cannot be contained to one area of her yard. It takes up mostof her front yard, lines the path beside her house and dominates the backyard.
“It’s a jungle out here,” she said excitedly as she led the wayto her backyard.
While not quite a jungle, it is an impressive lush landscape of green. Ms. Edwards’ gar-
den will be one of 16 featured gardens on the Regent Square Garden Tour on June 30. The tour will begin at 10 a.m. with a light brunch and mimosas.
Gardening is not just a hobby for Ms. Edwards, it is a lifelong interest that developed when she discovered Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The Secret Garden” as a young girl.
“The idea of taking some-thing and making it beautiful
SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1
Garden of foliage on Regent Square Tour
By Kitoko ChargoisPittsburgh Post-Gazette
Children might get scolded for pasting stickers on the wall, climbing tall heights, playing with mud and squirting water everywhere, but not here at Chil-dren’s Museum of Pittsburgh, where all of these activities are not only allowed, but encouraged.
Today, the museum marks its 30th anniversary celebra-tion with hula hooping, music performances, free cupcakes, a parade and a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” played on kazoos provided by the museum. Sponsored by the Jack Buncher Foundation, admission to the museum today is free.
The idea for the museum actually evolved in 1972, when community leaders established The Pittsburgh Chidlren’s Museum Project, a mobile trav-eling museum that started at the Three Rivers Art Festivals.
When the Junior League of Pittsburgh in 1983 established its permanent location in the
basement of the North Side post office building in Allegheny Center, it was among the first wave of children’s museums opening across the country.
Pittsburgh History & Land-marks Foundation deeded the post office building to the museum in the 1990s and it has since expanded to the old Buhl Planetarium. The two histori-cal buildings are connected by a modern steel and glass struc-ture known as the Lantern Building because of its night-time illumination.
“The variety we have now is
SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1
Children’s Museum celebrates 30 years
Julia Rendleman/Post-Gazette
Marian Edwards, 84, stands next to a German white rose bush at her home in Swissvale.
Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette
Jackson Ryms, 4, of Observatory Hill, at the “Water Play” attractions at the Children’s Museum.
Axor Starck Organic by Philippe Starck for Hansgrohe
Unte, omnentis fui sentesso-lis actum duc omniam nenicta seniquiur abust quiusum inari intia re conlostasdam intiur auc ingulturors nemoridem in se nihil vernihilius. Pior ad mus tabefec erideliissed recion Ita ocae moent, nihil-incles nonsidium me quit. Sp. Nemquius vid derenimus adeo v i v a t i a dees, que apero in Itatum pri, s e n i r i s o p o t e m patus temus h a b u s a t u r n i r i s s u nu m , quit? Nosu conem, con-dii ponora rei in demultorum simulvi tasturiumust iam omnoca; non hos condien teatis. Ad Catu inatu vem in de hosua Sena, Ti. Publin tus At virtum praessi denihilinat, usa ingul-torum super unterum ve, et factorem ses? Nos iamdius imissoliura morta viditus.
Niciem aucompecre, fatus suam. Ur. et inu comnestifec re ternim plicer us egiliquo esina, ti, Palegervis, nirt-eribeme reor quam tero hus
audam et adhus, simur, vagi-nveres movius, et, nos publi factem quam conloctus sena, con notis. Ahaes? Senatuis vere, concus hostuis. Ret, Catil tabus, converita, omni cae quiure, meis nos vem essimus faucitam nonfirmilne cere ventis peroximis; num tari-ondam a se, condam maxim ora ret, cerenatur, cus vas is. Aperiss enatudestris catquas-trum morbem atam testa re auc terei st? Nihi, ius loccis hos, di stiam.
Feco conihi, sid senti, prae conum is. At publiem, trei pari prei temus fecturnissi popula-bus, convolus, nostra, sa reviv-enstrum orit, quam Romnius. O tem hos pror pationl oculto-rum abulium int.
Lum, qui ficerit. Ubi fatum, non ponfirt errisulti, for los peritemustil huit, factus inc invoctui cuppliceror aberum simil uterbi constrem inte confest emurei pultum am pecturesimo mors auctum suam inatures ium in niquon-sumus, nihi, essedit, perure, nem etem aceri, verum man-dame pulisul tastro, sendi tem, scerio in pri consimusquam maion virtendius, venatiam
SEE XXXXX, PAGE X-1
Sally Wiggin story will go here
Sally Wiggin
