Look! Anthropologie Design

2007-08-28-anthropologie decor.jpg How do they do it? We'd love to meet the interior designers of our local Anthropologie store. We love walking down Fifth Avenue and popping inside for inspiration. This past winter they had a Princess and the Pea theme that we loved so much we had to return with our camera. We thought maybe we'd take an amazing picture and blow it up for our little girl's room, but our photograph really didn't do it justice.

We were also taken with the bunches of paper dresses hanging behind the bed. A closer look below the jump...

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Upon closer inspection, the dress doesn't seem that difficult to duplicate as a decoration for a little girl's room- either just hanging or even in a frame. They have a simple design and are stitched together with pretty shades of thread. We love stitching on paper so this is a project we intend to try out one day.

If you're a fan of the Princess and the Pea theme, check out our previous post on artist Carla Sonhein.

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Several years ago one of the women's mags, Glamour or some such profiled a woman who was the head of design for Anthropologie about her background. I think she said her favorite tool is a staple gun.

posted by Lady J on August 28th 2007 at 9:14am
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I really love Anthropologie for inspiration as well. It's about an hours drive away. so I used to go twice a year. Not so much since the baby. So bring on mores pics! (Are you allowed to take pictures there?)

posted by K on August 28th 2007 at 9:35am
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i once saw a merchandiser putting together a display at the anthropologie in boston - she was taking apart silk flowers and hot-glueing the petals in staggared rows down a wall, i've always wanted to implement that in my own home some way but couldn't actually bring myself to hot-glue things on to the wall.

posted by molly h on August 28th 2007 at 9:54am
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So use rubber cement.

posted by Lady J on August 28th 2007 at 11:56am
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Hot glue the petals to a flat surface such as 1/8" plywood, then attach the surface to the wall by means you're more comfortable with.

posted by wende in the twin cities on August 29th 2007 at 4:48am
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Kayte at www.thisloveforever.com does or has done visual merchandising for anthropologie. She's got great ideas and projects in her blog.

posted by jbo on August 30th 2007 at 6:44am
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jbo,

I was excited to check out that link, but it didn't work for me.

posted by K on August 30th 2007 at 8:54am
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gah! because I misspelled it, sorry about that.

http://thisisloveforever.com/blog

posted by jbo on August 30th 2007 at 10:06am
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oh, thanks for the shout-out!
it is true, i was full-time there and now i freelance at all the stores in the city.
trish andersen did most of the display for that vignette. she is also a freelancer now! this is her site: http://www.domestic-construction.com/

posted by kayte on October 7th 2007 at 3:29pm
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