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Friday, March 16, 2012

perch. at Art in Bloom 2012

Every year The New Orleans Museum of Art and The Garden Study Club of New Orleans partner to host Art in Bloom - a multi-day event where New Orleans designers, artists, and flower designers artistically display exhibits that exemplify their style in some form or another. This year the theme was "Life in Color" and of course at perch. we LOVE colour,

so we were very excited to participate for the third year in a row!

Jack and I started with a wild brainstorming session dreaming up the best materials to make up the space. Jack had the insane but brilliant idea to use ping pong balls to create a sculptural shag carpet. We did the calculations based on the space and found we would need over 11,000 to fill it up! And that we did.

We hot glued each ping pong ball on top of golf tees which we punched into dried flower oasis so they would stand up & add height. Our friend Caroline Seale helped us immensely and actually took these photos of our preliminary work.

very cool photo by Caroline Seale of our ping pong madness.

Next we took out dried oasis punched with our pingpong balls on golf tees and sprayed bright yellowy green to go with the theme of Life In Color.

I found this fabulous brand new paint by Liquitex available at Michael's Craft Stores. I highly recommend it! It is an aerosol acrylic!! and comes in gorgeous colours.

Yours truly (Caroline Robert) spraying more ping pong balls!

arranging the balls on the oasis.

We layered out our sprayed sheets of ping pong balls and arranged them to create a textural yellowy green palate of color.

We used a brand new fabric by Fabricut and had our workroom create a gorgeous coverlet to go on our stunning tree bed by local metalsmith David Rockhold as the center piece.

To add "something old" to our eclectic mix of furnishings for the installation, we used this gorgeous antique painted side table I found at the Neal Auction.

The patron party celebrating Art In Bloom was delightful.

Kara French & Jack on the way to the festivities.

moi with our designated driver Greg.

Jack, Caroline Robert, & Caroline Seale

Art in Bloom Co-Chair Jennifer Charpentier & Jack Mayberry looking gorgeous.

My flower arrangement for the installation filled with agapanthus, forsythia, white & pink roses.

(this photo & others at the museum are courtesy of Elizabeth Soland

Communications Assistant New Orleans Museum of Art)

We were so pleased with the end result. All of our hard work and planning was well worth it!

Now the question is, what to do next year??

The Art in Bloom exhibits will be up at The New Orleans Museum of Art through the weekend, so go by and see!

Monday, February 27, 2012

let your light bloom!

A lamp as valuable as Murano glass, as irreverent as a rock opera. Bloom blossoms forth in a scintillating and lavish cascade of crystalline flowers.

in white it's reminiscent of an Audrey Hepburn's hat

Bloom is composed of a polycarbonate tubular framework entirely encrusted with tiny double corolla transparent polycarbonate flowers.

The result is an industrially produced lamp with the form and stylistic complexities of the unique hand-made artefact. Bloom comes in an original hanging version: a cylindrical version suggestive of the silhouette of an hour glass figure.

There are three single-colours for the lamp - total transparency and opaque white for a refined ethereal effect, plus a sexy pink and black mix.

The cable length is adjustable from 31.5" to 94.5"

The overall Diameter 20.9"

hanging length is adjustable from 59.1" to 122.1" The shade height is 27.6"

$890 each

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perch. 504-899-2122 T

Sunday, February 19, 2012

celebrating Mardi Gras with a true New Orleans original - Alexa Pulitzer

Given the fact that we’re deep into the celebration of Mardi Gras, I thought it was only fitting to feature the work of a New Orleans native - one of New Orleans’ most talented artists stationary designer Alexa Pulitzer.

Alexa Pulitzer in her New Orleans Studio

art & design is in Alexa’s blood. She is the granddaughter of Samuel Pulitzer who in 1926 began a neckwear manufacturing company, Wembley Inc., which grew to become the Wemco Corporation (now Randa), the largest tie manufacturer in the world with labels that have included Countess Mara and Oscar de la Renta.

As a child Alexa traveled with her father on buying trips to Italy and later gained invaluable experience designing neckties for the Wembley brand. Alexa gravitated to the company’s paper printing shop, making pads with potential necktie designs on them. An avid photographer, Alexa utilized her photographs to make papers as well. Friends encouraged her to sell them & start her own business and that she did.

Alexa Pulitzer offers custom stationary, as well invitations from wedding to birth announcements to business cards.

Her business is thriving & continues to grow.

how would you like to receive this fortune cookie wedding save the date designed by Alexa Pulitzer in the mail?

custom wedding invitations

custom stationery design by Alexa Pulitzer

birth announcement by Alexa Pulitzer

Alexa recently designed this evite for Sentimental Journeys 2012 (an event to raise funds and awareness for Longue Vue House and Gardens.)

Her collections of note cards and notepads line the shelves of upscale retailers around the world including Bergdorf Goodman, Anthropologie and of course, perch.

display of Alexa Pulitzer paper goods displayed at perch.

We’re proud to help represent such a talented New Orleans artist and are thrilled to watch as “Alexa Pulitzer” becomes a household name.

You can see our selection of her goods at our website here.

Happy Carnival!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

cupid strikes at perch.!

we set a loverly table at perch

for Valentine's Day

our white chinoiserie statue is a lovely contrast in front of the pop of red roses.

our red lucite ballroom chairs are

the perfect punch for a lively & fun table.

flower bowls add a rosy feel.

we lined the center of the table with roses in

our sweet little cachepots.

red melamine plate - 16.50

cachepot - 18

etched footed glasses - 12

red ballroom chair - 275

mr. impossible chair in red - 448

t-top dining table with lucite legs - 2850

red & ivory candlesticks - 20/pair

a happy lover - priceless

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Happy Valentine's Day

love,

perch.

Monday, February 13, 2012

And the Winner is...

We've had so many amazing suggestions for a name for our beautiful peacock - we loved them all

so we picked randomly out of a hat
AND
the winner is

Percival!!!!

Thank you Nita! We'll be contacting you shortly!

We love all of our loyal readers and thank you for entering!
For those who entered to win this giveaway, we are offering 20% off of all in stock Nest Fragrances for the rest of February!
Call today to order
(shipping rates apply)
504-899-2122 T

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Deyrolle in Paris...

I’m anxiously awaiting perch.’s little giveaway to conclude so that we can award one of our blog readers over $100 in Nest products & the privilege of having named our gorgeous

Blue Indian Peacock.

Enter here if you haven't already and name this beautiful bird!

In the meantime, I thought I’d do a little post on what is my OTHER favorite store in the world and has entire FLOORS devoted to gorgeous taxidermy & entomology –

Deyrolle in Paris.

From the outside you would never know the treasures that await inside!

I had the pleasure of visiting this shop a few months ago when we visited our daughter studying in Paris last fall. It dates from the 1830’s and has been kept a bit of a secret.

Loved their window display.

Of course they have a peacock on display as well, along with a bobcat & aviary skeletons.

Deyrolle first opened in the 1830’s by Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle who loved entomology and whose clients were natural history collectors.

collection of African beetles

In addition he had a very successful taxidermy business which has grown...

Thirty years later his grandson Emile Deyrolle inherited the business.

Emile Deyrolle

In the later part of the 19th century Emile first developed a series of colorful posters called the Deyrolle Scholarly Museum, still famous in French schools today.

And just 11 years ago Louis Albert de Broglie took over Deyrolle and started his own series of posters and developed a line of gardening tools & supplies under the name of the Prince Jardinier

(The Gardener Prince).

I loved the Prince Jardinier collection of perfumes especially the scent Ciel Mon Jardin which I've adopted as my new signature scent.

They also carry an array of fabulous books.

stacks of books on insects & nature subjects

While for years Deyrolle has been kept under wraps, it is gaining in popularity from it's association with the film industry. Their taxidermy is available for rent for films.