-
Holiday House can’t be open every day but we celebrate year round. Our new “Celebrations” blog brings you inspiration on holiday decorating and entertaining from renowned interior designers while building excitement for our annual fall show house in New York City. To date Holiday House has raised $100,000 in critical funds for breast cancer awareness and research.
Advertisers
-
Blogroll
Archives
Mother’s Day
In honor of Mother’s Day we are featuring designer Ally Coulter‘s gorgeous room from Holiday House 2011, guest written by Ms. Coulter herself!
Easter
We hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend, and we wanted to share two Holiday House rooms that celebrate Easter.
At Holiday House 2010, Robin Wilson created a unique Easter table setting inside of a snow globe.
Photographs by Robin Wilson Home
Continue reading
April Fools!
For April Fools Day we take you back to Holiday House 2010, where Marjorie Sobiloff and Cathy Yohay of SY Interior Designs transported visitors to a Paris apartment with views of the gardens at Chateau de Villandry.
Photographs by Phillip Ennis and Norman & Cathy Yohay.
Continue reading
Snow days and Sundays at home
Well we were saving a snow day post for March, but the weather gods have decided to bring us spring early! We still couldn’t resist sharing designer Irwin Feld‘s Snow Day room from Holiday House 2010.
Irwin wanted to take a departure from calendar holidays and create a day where visitors could celebrate nature and the simple things we’re surrounded by but often take for granted. Irwin created a sense of intimacy and a place where you could cuddle up, have some hot chocolate, play a board game, or simply take a nap on a winter day.
Photographs by Marcy Feld.
Continue reading
Awards Season
February is synonymous with awards season, and we were glued to our TVs to watch all the red carpet glamor and spectacular performances at the 54th Grammy Awards. Some of our favorites were Jennifer Hudson’s tribute to Whitney Houston, and Adele’s breathtaking Rolling in the Deep.
Holiday House 2010 featured a dazzling Grammy celebration room by designer Jolie Korek.
Photographs by Ted Astor.
Jolie’s rock star Grammy room featured a shag rug, electric guitar, and sparkling geometric shapes in the fabric from Romo.
Wishing you a sweet Valentine’s Day! (plus a giveaway!)
Ok, so I have to admit I’m a mush. Valentine’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays since I was a little girl…
Handing out Valentine’s Day cards as a child, making chocolate heart lollipops with my daughters, and now setting the perfect romantic table for my husband and me. Whether it’s the perfect breakfast tray or the ultimate champagne glasses to compliment the romantic table for dinner, every detail should be perfect – and filled with love!
Yes, I am a true romantic at heart…what’s better than chocolate and champagne?! As James Rixner said about his room at Holiday House 2011: “It’s all about chocolate!”
-Iris Dankner, Holiday House Founder
James Rixner photos by Nick Johnson.
James chose Benjamin Moore’s “Dark Chocolate” #CSP-270 to cover his walls, and chocolate brown was everywhere, from the lush silk carpet to the artisanal MarieBelle chocolate squares on the plates!
Happy Year of the Dragon!
Welcome to our first ever Holiday House blog post!
We’re kicking off with Chinese New Year (January 23rd), which is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays and marks the end of winter (apparently New York City missed that memo!).
Everything associated with the Chinese New Year should represent good fortune, and the tradition is to reconcile, forget all grudges and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.
2012 is the year of the Dragon, which represents luck. At Holiday House 2011, designer Inson Wood’s Chinese New Year room featured a sculpted Great Dragon from Lladró’s High Porcelain collection.
Inson’s room also featured lots of red, the predominant color of the holiday, and an emblem of joy, virtue, truth and sincerity. During celebrations, it is customary to wear red clothes, decorate with poems on red paper, and give children lucky money in red envelopes.
Inson painted the room’s walls with Benjamin Moore‘s “Moroccan Red” #1309, and as is custom on the holiday, the room’s doors and windows were also painted red for luck.
Photos by Peter Rymwid.
