le cinéma

The cinema ticket.

Our seats?

And le cinéma?

The other evening, Ligne Roset Houston had one of its really chic in-store cinema events. The cinema was À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) with Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo and English subtitles. I know you've never had seats such as these in a theater or French spirits and hor d'oeuvres as you watched a hip black and white.

But who could concentrate on the movie...even if it's Belmondo and Seberg...while mentally redecorating one's pad with all those wonderful Ligne Roset designs?

Un Cadeau

Reve D′ Édo water decanter designed by Peter Maly and Carsten Gollnick for Ligne Roset

When Bruce Wolfe and his staff at Ligne Roset Houston invited me to drop by their showroom to choose a gift from anything on the floor, I knew exactly what I wanted...the chic water decanter from their Reve D′ Édo collection.

If I were a bride, my groom and I would register at Ligne Roset so our wedding guests could experience the pleasure of choosing gifts in such a beautiful place. Anyway...I felt like a bride, or perhaps the proverbial kid in a candy store, when Bruce wrapped up my gift.

Gentlemen at Ligne Roset Houston, thank you for the excellent adventure! From your gift, I shall drink to your health, and of course to your success.

Ligne Roset Lamp

As promised in a previous post, here is the Ligne Roset lamp that Tall Husband could not resist when I was doing a shoot of Ligne Roset Houston's Grand Re-Opening party recently.

This floor lamp, La Chinoise by Pascal Mourgue, is so cool. It is of polished chrome with a white chintz shade, which is adjustable. The height of the lamp is also adjustable. So chic!

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Ligne Roset: Grand Re-Opening Party

Last night, Ligne Roset Houston held their Grand Re-Opening party to celebrate their move to the new River Oaks location. Their new showroom is drop-dead gorgeous. Styling by Anne Breux.  Photography by Annie Sitton.

Bruce Wolfe, owner of Ligne Roset Houston, with a party guest. (Bruce does the best Truman Capote!)


Ligne Roset Houston: New storefront.

All of Ligne Roset's events are attended by an interesting mix of Francophiles who happen to be French design aficionados, and last night was no exception. The conversation flowed as freely as the French wine.

Ligne Roset Houston has a line of chic accessories to complement their furniture, including an impressive selection of items for table top. That trivet, above, composed of forks, knives and spoons, is as functional as it is witty.

Note: Tall Husband, who says, "One can never have too many chairs," did resist buying more chairs last night; but he couldn't resist a certain floor lamp. You'll get to see it later.

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Ligne Roset Houston: Opening Day

Bruce Wolfe, owner of Ligne Roset Houston, arrives with French Champagne to toast the new showroom.  You know there will be the perfect ice bucket in which to chill it.

Day one: the paper has come off the windows and the showroom is looking so very Ligne Roset.

These chairs are the most wonderful, dark leather.  Nobody does leather like Ligne Roset.

Ditto!

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Ligne Roset Houston: Moving Day

For Ligne Roset, Houston, Sunday was moving day. They moved from their showroom on Kirby Drive to 1992 West Gray Street, The River Oaks Shopping Center. Ligne Roset will open for business on Monday February 16th in their new, larger showroom.


The moving trucks backed in early Sunday morning to begin the move of the chic French furniture and accessories line from the Kirby showroom.



Meanwhile, at the new location, Dakota, the Lab with a nose for design, awaits the arrival of the first truck...


...Karl of KVM Design completes the installation of a modernist Ligne Roset lighting fixture.

The plans have been drafted...

Plenty of hot French roast and croissants, along with classical music, fuel today's creative activities.

Consultants and principals of Ligne Roset of Houston confer while waiting for the arrival of the next truck-load of French furniture.

The placement of the furniture begins according to plan. Anne Breux, a top French Designer, is in charge of showroom design. She will use mainly whites, greys and blacks with just a hit of red and that wonderful orange that the French do so well.

The Ligne Roset Team will work well into the night to ready the new showroom for Monday's opening.

Stay logged in for a look at the finished showroom. I promise, it will be cool, minimalist, chic and very French. Oh, and you will get to see what Bruce Wolfe the owner of Ligne Roset Houston has brought to the new showroom to celebrate the move. Ahh, Le Style de Vie!

Modern Rubber

The gray and white rubber pots are from Ligne Roset.

The pale blue rubber vase (above) was found at Galeries Lafayette in Paris. When I spotted this vase, I thought it was blown glass. As I gingerly picked it up, it folded in my hands and the bottom fell to the floor...talk about feeling as if you're in the twilight zone!

The cinnabar rubber pot (above left) is from Conran's in Paris and is made by cutting edge "potters" Charlotte Arnal and François Fevre in their atelier in Paris. The black rubber bowl is my jeweler's bowl for mixing investment plaster for casting and is available from jeweler supply shops.

Designers have been producing hip looking rubber products for quite sometime now. Besides exuding modern cool, they turn out to be great room accessories to have around if you have children or clumsy adult visitors.

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Foraging

Out front of My Ranchburger, remained a small pile of debris, remnants of Hurricane Ike. Taking a lesson from the local squirrels, I went foraging. There in the untidy pile of twigs and tree limbs, glowed white berries (seeds of the Chinese Tallow tree.) I recognized them as the same berries for which I had paid dearly at a flower boutique last winter.

The two rubber pots are from Ligne Roset in Houston and the vintage lab flask is from Found for the Home.

And voila! A small, minimalist bouquet, a feast for the eyes and the soul.