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trend translation: catwalk to home decor

8/14/2012

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Art Deco

At its best, art deco represented elegance, glamour, functionality and modernity. Bold, Art Deco-era geometrics feel equally appropriate on throw pillows as they do on beaded flapper dresses.  


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Florals

The 50s floral tradition is a popular print and creates a sense of pretty nostalgia on tablecloths and bed linen, from feminine, Victorian florals, to out-and-loud wild blooms. This is extended to animal print too - upholstery has branched out to include leopard and zebra print.

 



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Color Blocking

Color blocking has been around for years, in fashion as well as interior decorating.  Remember that color blocks can take the form of any material: fabric, flooring, accessories.


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what's new: techorating

6/12/2012

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Metapaper brings WiFi-trapping
wallpaper to the masses

by Jana Branch | 23 May 2012

What’s happening
Back in aught-four, Iconoculture reported on WiFi-trapping wallpaper. The problem? At nearly $800 a foot, ordinary Moes and Marys could forget it. Now techorating gets a boost with Métapapier, or Metapaper, an affordable signal-blocking design (Connexion-France.com, 8 May 2012).
Developed at France’s Grenoble Institut Polytechnique, the wallpaper prototype uses silver crystals in a snowflake pattern to do the hard work of keeping WiFi-signal-stealing intruders out while letting radio and cellphone
signals in. And it doesn’t look bad either.


Metapaper will be available in 2013 from Finnish wallpaper company Ahlstrom, with the cost projected to be similar to any conventional, mid-range wallpaper.  But what about WiFi signal security on windows?  The researchers are currently working on a transparent version, too.

What this means to business
Data privacy continues to gain ground in consumers’ list of concerns.  Marriages of functionality and pleasing design continue to hook a generation that holds the sleek Apple aesthetic near and dear. Sure, an encrypted network with a strong password could offer a similar level of security, but WiFi-trapping wallpaper provides a permanent solution that
doesn’t require homeowners to remember and share passwords the next time friends come visiting with laptops or iPads in tow. Innovation opportunity exists anywhere that a propriced  product can be reinvented for ordinary consumer
budgets.

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