What's New with Hue?
January 1, 2003
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Rose Tarlow and Ralph Pucci represent the opposite ends of the design spectrum—she adores antiques (her Tumbleweed armchair with a crackled lacquer finish is below), he sees elegance in modernism. Both are pros at understanding market drifts and their customers’ buying habits. They share their views on the state of the market. (Click image to enlarge)
Rose Tarlow (323.651.2202, www.rosetarlow.com): “My clients want to stay home. They don’t want to go to big parties or fund-raisers. That has stopped. Their attitude is they want to enjoy what they have, and they want to enjoy it now. They may have stopped investing in the stock market, but they haven’t stopped buying furniture. They are buying for kitchens, media rooms, home theaters, family rooms, and they are purchasing country things—big comfortable chairs and long dining tables. People want to return to simpler times. Perhaps it’s a sense of nostalgia, but the hard edge is off in favor of softer fabrics. We are getting orders for printed fabrics for all rooms, which I haven’t seen in a while. And orders for wallpaper, which I haven’t seen at all.”; function voidFunc() { } voidFunc(); "Chair")
Ralph Pucci (212.633.0452, www.ralphpucci.com): “It’s been a strange year, and if you live in New York, it’s been even stranger. But we are getting Wall Street types who live in Greenwich or New Canaan, Conn., who in the past would have been buying chintz and very traditional pieces. Now they want cleaner, less fussy things. Maybe it’s because when they travel they’re not staying at the Ritz in Paris but at boutique hotels like the Montalembert and they are being exposed to the type of furniture we sell. Perhaps they recognize that, like the suits they wear, our furniture is of fine hand- crafted quality, often signed and numbered. It is something that will last, it is luxurious—not just something to sit on. Our style seems appropriate for the times. Whether it’s furniture by Kevin Walz or Chris Lehrecke, lighting by John Wigmore, or Christopher Farr rugs, everything is elegant and pared down.” (Click image to enlarge)
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