MY NEW NAVY LOUIS CHAIR - COCOCOZY OFFICE DECORATING!

Here's a new addition to COCOCOZY Headquarters (HQ) in Beverly Hills!  A side chair with an oval back upholstered with my own fabric from the COCOCOZY fabric collection.  A little navy chair.  At first I wasn't sure I liked it but now I'm loving it!

My little tiny tiny office is starting to come together!

I went with a dark blue matte finish for the chair and chose navy COCOCOZY Logo linen on the front and COCOCOZY Fence in navy on the back.  The dull matte finish is a nice contrast to the glossy white desk I think and my vintage brass Stiffel lamp.

The Louis Side Chairs is from Ballard.  Ballard's p.r. people asked me to customize my own chair earlier this fall.  So I did. I chose the fabric from our collection and the color, CM who runs operations at COCOCOZY sent the fabric to them and just yesterday Jenn West (aka JW) who assists at COCOCOZY HQ took these photos (great photos JW!) with the huge NSR camera I bought last year that I never use.  Well it got put to good use yesterday. &nbsp

What do you think of our little office addition?  Like or dislike?

Happy Thursday!

xo

Coco

P.S.  Am blogging this morning from my sister DS's warm comfy house after my unplanned move out of my cold water damaged house yesterday.  Feel very lucky to have a cute sweet nice older sister (she is 10 months older than me) who told me as I moved several huge suitcases into her house, "this is your home".  Mr. Boo, my dog, is also here.  He's welcomed too but if he chews anything up he will have literally worn out his welcome.  Watch it Mr. Boo. (see yesterday's post if you don't know what happened)

P.P.S.  My mom has been so fantastic through this whole thing.  She knows I've been stressed but she continues to give good advice about solving the problem.

P.P.P.S.  I mentioned silver linings yesterday.  In the middle of the move, one of my moving guys said to me..."Lady, how old are you?".  I asked, "How old do you think."  He said, "Oh maybe 19, 20 or 21".  This nice moving guy made my day!  I'd like to point out that he said this at the beginning of the 7 hour moving odyssey...and while I was tapping my feet and looking at my watch the whole time and I even started loading boxes and furniture, this moving guy's age comments worked.  Somehow, I was not at all annoyed that a 4 hour move turned into a 7 hour ordeal.  Flattery will get you everywhere!

P.P.P.P.S.  Thank you for all of your nice emails about my house...you are so sweet.  I will be more than fine.  As I said, this is merely an inconvenience...a hiccup in life...a very challenging hiccup...but a hiccup.  Seeing the news of all of the families mourning in Newtown has helped me keep great perspective over the last few days.  Again, my thoughts, condolences and deepest sympathies go out to them.

P.P.P.P.P.S.  Must go buy storage today for sis DS's house...I brought so much stuff over...if I don't organize it, I will wear out my welcome I'm sure!!!

P.P.P.P.P.P.S.  TE is leaving today for a week. He is going to Europe to see his family. In the middle of all my house craziness chaos, last night we managed to exchange Christmas presents.  He is so sweet.  He got me something for the vacation we're taking next week. Was nice taking a breather from construction and moving to enjoy the holiday.  We're going to Beaver Creek for New Years.  We'll stay with best of friend FF and her family in their huge home and then we'll go to a resort for 3 days.  Can't wait.

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. UPDATE ON COCOCOZY LUCITE TRAYS - Not too late to order these trays before the holiday or as a Christmas gift, a present for yourself or housewarming gift. We have them back in stock and can overnight ship to you so they make it in time!

FABRIC SAMPLES FOR NEW 2013 COCOCOZY COLLECTION ARRIVE AT OFFICE!

Photos in this post by Coco of COCOCOZY

A stack of new 2013 fabric samples sits on the conference table at COCOCOZY Headquarters in Beverly Hills. (above)

So I went over to COCOCOZY Headquarters (HQ) in Beverly Hills earlier this week before work...to check out and photograph our 2013 new fabric samples!

I was so thrilled when CM who runs all things operations called me and told me JW had picked up the fabric from the workshop where we have all of my designs printed.

Have been working on these designs over the last few months - drawing, photographing, working with graphic designer to realize them in digital files, fretting, being unsure, making decisions and then spending the money to have all made - after all of that, it is always so fun to see the designs that I dreamed up come together as actual textiles!

Can't reveal just yet as we will show the 2013 collection for the first time in Atlanta in January and in New York in late January/early February. This will be a new line of pillows called COCOCOZY Light...a little more affordable hopefully than our luxury linen collection...but still on brand with everything else I've designed for the collection and that have become standard to the "COCOCOZY look".

As with all of our pillows, the new collection is made in the U.S. from imported fabrics (I design, print, sew, and assemble here in the United States but the base raw cloth we use is imported).  Not that you care but interesting to note, for labeling purposes according to the Federal Trade Commission (I called a nice person at the FTC and asked him what we need to say on our labels) - our labels say "Made in the U.S.A.  from imported fabrics" for our pillows.  Our cotton knit throws are just Made in the U.S.A.

There a few designs in the new COCOCOZY Light 2013 bunch that feel somewhat different than anything else I've designed over the last few years - best of friend AM had some notes on one of the patterns because she worries it feels like such a departure from what I've done in the past. She's 100%  right by the way but I'm going to take the risk and see what people think!

Anyhoooo...so I took these photos shown here one morning this week at 8a at COCOCOZY HQ. This is the stack of strike offs which are 1-3 yard samples of the new COCOCOZY designs.  If you look closely you might get a glimpse of what's to come in the new year!

Would like to thank CM and JW who work at COCOCOZY....because when I brought the new designs in...they weighed in on which they liked and which should remain on the cutting room floor...we narrowed it down to about 7 that I am happy with...we'll see what you think.

Here's a close up of all the 2013 COCOCOZY Light designs folded with the designs concealed...but you can see just a bit if you look closely! (above)

I am looking forward to all there is to come in 2013.  Is there anything you are looking forward to revealing next year?

Happy Friday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  Our COCOCOZY Logo Lucite trays have been a hit.  We now are sold out...but will be accepting pre-orders that will ship after 12/19/12.  We are going to offer express shipping in case you need it by Christmas.

Photos in this post by Coco of COCOCOZY