Home Room: Prouvé Raw, 2012 color forecast, Pets on Furniture

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Prouvé Raw, 2012 color forecasting, ‘Carrot City’ and other notes from the principal’s desk this morning:

Prouvé Raw: Vitra premiered Prouvé Raw, a collaboration with the clothing brand G-Star Raw. Says the publicity machine: ‘G-Star, the Prouvé family and Vitra have worked on giving some of Jean Prouvé’s best known designs a fresh and contemporary look and feel, while re-discovering some of Prouvé’s less known designs.’ Photos above.

2012, the year of blue: Benjamin Moore released its 2012 color forecast, which says ‘blue will be big in 2012 as the population seeks out a sense of calm, trust, and the tried-and-true.’ Smug note of self-congratulation: In early 2011, when so many were hailing Pantone’s choice of pink as the color of the year, we noted a shifting tide toward blue. Of all the hues highlighted in Benjamin Moore’s 2012 color forecast, let me go out on a limb and say I’m most drawn to a gray called Sharkskin. Will we be feeling a bit gray next year? (Sharkskin photo below.)

Home office: In a new survey from the American Institute of Architects, members report that the ‘specialty room’ most requested by clients is (drum roll): the home office. Shocking, thinks the reader taking work home every night. The Home office blew away outdoor living rooms, mudrooms, home theaters and exercise rooms.

Pet portraits: Modernica, maker of Eames shell chairs and George Nelson bubble lamps, declared its third Pets on Furniture photo winner. The most brilliant contest in the history of retailing?

‘Carrot City’: Next week the Monacelli Press is scheduled to release ‘Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Architecture’ by Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar and Joe Nasr. The pitch: ’40 projects, created by designers from the United States and around the world, that explore innovative approaches to making space for urban food production.’

The Benjamin Moore paint color Sharkskin. Credit: Benjamin Moore.

Pets on Furniture contest winner No. 3.

‘Carrot City’: To be released Tuesday. Cover image: Monacelli Press

CORRECTED: An earlier version of this post misspelled Prouvé -- the dangers of pasting accent marks too quickly!

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-- Craig Nakano