Vicente Wolf Blog

When one participates in a showhouse, like I’m doing with Kips Bay this year, it’s always a challenge – trying to approach suppliers and manufacturers to provide items for free in exchange for exposure. Trying to balance the demands that these manufacturers have with what one’s concept is for the space and how much one is willling to compromise and how your vision and the manufacturer’s needs can be met. I am lucky in that it’s a) Kips Bay, and quite prestigious and b) that I’m a decently well-recognized designer and that a partnership will bring some exposure. I’m really finding it hard to compromise on my vision for the space when a supplier is willing to give me A but expects me to also incorporate B – where I’m not interested in B. So it’s a negotiation process on a time deadline, but it’s plugging along.

Here’s a photo from the bedroom we did last year for the Metropolitan Home Showtime House where we wrapped the room in Hunter Douglas blinds and projected a moving garden onto the bare wall to create an effect of being in a cocoon. I thought it was beautiful.