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| Diffa's Paint Swatch Decor |
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| A number of tables at Diffa's Dining by Design event this week employed paint chips to decorative effect: fashioning the colorful sheets into wallpaper, name cards, napkin rings, and faux floral arrangements. Here's a look at how designers repurposed this common material. |
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 | For sponsor Benjamin Moore, David Stark used thousands of paint swatches to give his house-like setting colorful shingles and a cloud-filled sky backdrop. At the table, swatches became party horns and placecards.
Photo: Francine Daveta for BizBash |
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 | Vicente Wolf's table for The New York Times had a chandelier embellished with paint swatches.
Photo: Francine Daveta for BizBash |
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 | Vicente Wolf also used paint chips as napkin rings (and scattered colorful swatches across the tabletop).
Photo: Francine Daveta for BizBash |
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 | Students from Parsons the New School for Design folded paint swatches into flower and leaf shapes, which they arranged in a plastic paint tray.
Photo: Francine Daveta for BizBash |
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Note: You can find all of our coverage of Diffa's Dining by Design event here.
—Lisa Cericola & Mark Mavrigian
RELATED TOPICS
Benjamin Moore, Parsons the New School for Design, The New York Times
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