Thursday, January 28, 2010

Fabric Sale


Barclay Butera Fabric Sale

Up to 80% off Fabric Bolts & Cut Yardage*
*Discontinued Patterns & Overstock only

Thursday, January 28 – Saturday, January 30

1745 Westcliff Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949.650.8570

Monday, January 11, 2010

Barclay Butera - Decor Score

Thanks to Rose Bennett Gilbert



for her Decor Score post on creators.com




Hearst Bedroom Redesigned with not a Rosebud in Sight

Q: We're going to California during January, and I am keen to go to the Hearst Castle in San Simeon for the first time in my life. Somewhere I got the idea that it's been redecorated. Who'd have the nerve? What's the story?

A: You must have heard about the so-called Hearst Castle "Overnight Room," a one-off makeover venture by designer Barclay Butera.

You'll be relieved to hear that William Randolph Hearst — said to have been passionate about the decorative arts — is probably not tossing in his grave. Butera's redesign was done all in the name of charity, sponsored by the Friends of Hearst Castle, honoring the 50th anniversary of public access to the castle (now a State Historical Monument and a California State Park).

Last year, the Friends of Hearst Castle auctioned off "Hearst Castle Overnight" to a winning couple who could invite eight friends to swim in the Neptune Pool, play tennis, dine on the terrace, stroll the garden and enjoy an after-dinner movie in the Castle theater.
Then they went home, and the winning couple stayed overnight in the newly decorated pictured showcase room — with a view of the Pacific Ocean and furnishings by Hearst Castle licensees, among them Butera, who does upholstered pieces and pillows that are inspired by Mr. Hearst's collection.

They're a good match, the designer and the media magnate, sharing a taste for old Hollywood grandeur and glamour. Butera has owned homes that once belonged to Frank Sinatra and Bette Davis, and he was the creative director for the $25-million renovation of the L'Auberge del Mar in Del Mar, Calif., a former favorite playground of the stars.

More ordinary homeowners can also enjoy Butera's talents, if not within the splendor of Hearst Castle.

Check out his designs at barclaybutera.com and barclaybuterahome.com. And before you visit Butera's site, you may also want to have a look at hearstcastle.org.

Rose Bennett Gilbert is the co-author of "Manhattan Style," "Hampton Style," and five other books on interior design. To find out more about Rose Bennett Gilbert and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at http://www.creators.com/.
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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Barclay Butera - Sundance Film Festival - An Artist at the Table



January 7, 2010
Media Contact: Julie Du Brow
310‐821‐2463 tel
julie@dubroworks.com

HOLLYWOOD LIFESTYLE DESIGNER BARCLAY BUTERA
BECOMES OFFICIAL SUNDANCE PROVIDER,
HELPS PRODUCE OPENING NIGHT
“AN ARTIST AT THE TABLE”
LOS ANGELES, CA (January 2010) – Lifestyle designer Barclay Butera, as a new Official Provider of the Sundance Film Festival, is honored to help create Sundance’s Opening Night: An Artist at the Table. The sold‐out fundraiser on January 21st in Park City, UT, celebrates the importance of independent artists and their stories, and includes a cocktail reception, dinner, live entertainment by award‐winning Sundance Composer Fellows, and attendance at the Festival’s premiere screenings at the Eccles Theatre. Butera will engage his signature mix of textures and patterns to produce an elegant evening that also reflects the stunning snow‐white exterior of Park City.

“I have participated in a number of events during Sundance, but helping produce Artist at the Table for the acclaimed Sundance Institute is a huge honor and very exciting. I love film and I admire the organization’s impressive nurturing of talent,” states Butera, President and CEO of Barclay Butera Inc. “Especially because I work with an extensive list of celebrity clientele, it is important for me to be able to celebrate their creativity and can give back to the entertainment community through what I do.”

Butera—who has had a home and one of his retail showrooms in Park City since 2003—understands the magic of the color ‘white’. The event’s décor has a base of white but with regal accents of red, blue and leopard print velvet throughout. “The blue stained windows of the space produce an especially beautiful reflection on the white, which has the effect of connecting the outside white from the snow with the indoors,” observes Butera.
The designer will place eight pyramid‐shaped candelabras with a series of candlelit hurricanes flanking the entrance and balanced throughout the venue. Amidst this elegant theme, Butera has created a symmetrical ‘grand’ entry by placing his Paris‐lounge inspired Brentwood Settees in red linen in a linear approach to the cocktail area. Specially‐prepared white woven linen drapery will display the Artist at the Table logo embroidered in red. And, as with all that Butera does, decorative pillows will add a richness, as well as tactile and visual engagement, to the scene. Pillows will be in blue velvet, leopard print, and a rich blue/gold/red satin stripe.
The theme of involving the senses continues through dinner. In the center of each table will be two clear hurricanes with crystals inside, holding white candles, and a vase of fragrant white tulips with red dogwood branches. The tables are covered in a navy blue lamour tablecloth with antique gold sparkle overlay, and the napkins are in gold lamour.
Butera’s involvement with the Sundance Institute launched in June 2009 when he hosted that month’s salon for filmmaker Robert Epstein and the Sundance Institute Film Series at his Park City showroom. In past years during the time of the festival, Butera has been involved with The Creative Coalition, Hollywood Life, Western Interiors & Design magazine, Queer Lounge, the Egyptian Theatre Co. (for which he held a fundraiser), as well as with the Los Angeles Times, WireImage the Utah Film Commission, HP and L’Oreal.


ABOUT BARCLAY BUTERA
Barclay Butera, Inc. is based in Newport Beach, CA, and entails the Barclay Butera collection showrooms in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, CA, and Park City, UT. Barclay Butera Home, Inc. products (www.barclaybuterahome.com) are distributed through over 300 showrooms, his own collection showrooms, and To the Trade nationwide. Butera designs and manufactures his bench made upholstery products in Los Angeles, CA. Please visit www.barclaybutera.com/media for a full introduction.

ABOUT SUNDANCE INSTITUTE
Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a not‐for‐profit organization that fosters the development of original storytelling in film and theatre, and presents the annual Sundance Film Festival. Internationally recognized for its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Angels in America, Spring Awakening, Boys Don't Cry, Sin Nombre and Born into Brothels.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Barclay Butera on Decorati - Interiors Without Rules

Thanks to Donna Sapolin of Decorati.com

for the post

Interiors Without Rules: Barclay Butera
Posted on Jan 5, 2010
By Donna Sapolin

Barclay Butera is on a whirlwind, multi-city travel jaunt delivering keynote addresses on behalf of Kravet Collections, for which he has just created substantial carpet and fabric lines, and signing his latest book- “Living in Style” (Assouline, 2008), a retrospective of his residential work featuring 90 photos.
His speaking and book-signing schedule would leave most people breathless-just the two week itinerary surrounding this interview places him in Phoenix, Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles, Florida and Houston. But today, Butera is squeezing in two meetings in one with a residential client in Deer Valley and another with Sundance Institute staff members in Park City to plan the opening gala of the 2010 Film Festival. As both a sponsor and the Creative Director of this inaugural event, he’s out to inject a ‘Wow’ factor into the décor and entire feeling of the party. “It’s quite an honor to be asked to do this,” he says, “and I intend to be the best I can be for myself and the venue.”
This “emphasis on excellence” ethic has guided him from the start-from the moment he launched his Los Angeles design firm in 1993, making it a point to accept any work that came along, to today when the company employs 56 people and executes residential projects all over the country; creates numerous product lines embodying luxury at various price points; maintains showrooms in Newport Beach, Los Angeles and Park City; and is building a burgeoning hospitality business.
The firm recently completed the 26-million dollar renovation of the “L’Auberge del Mar” hotel in Del Mar, CA and is in the process of designing a showcase room at the Hearst Castle in San Simeon, CA. It is the first interior design of a room at the castle since 1947 and is used for overnight stays by winners of the Hearst Castle Overnight at benefit auctions held by Friends of Hearst Castle.
Butera gained exposure to the interior design field early on via his mother’s design firm in Palo Alto. “I was organizing and updating her sample library at the age of eight and was able to learn from the ground up,” he says. “She was an extremely hard worker and demonstrated a high degree of integrity.” In college, Butera pursued a degree in political science and economics and followed his undergrad education with a year of law school before recognizing that his true passion laid in the creative arts and design.
He returned to his mother’s firm, opening a southern California office for her and eventually launching his own with the goal of redefining the look and feel of luxury. “My mother and I both emphasize luxury but she prefers a more formal rendition and I’ve gone in the opposite direction. ” says Butera.
“I aim for an approachable, livable elegance that springs from a fashion sensibility.”
In his public talks he underscores his roots and the qualities he feels made him successful-service, positive energy, and a deep connection to his clients. “Designers are basically therapists for the home,” says Butera. “We’re in their bedrooms and baths and closer than a family therapist would be.”
“I have a client-for-life mentality; I believe we need to develop long-term friendships with clients, give them luxury in whatever dose they need initially, and then grow up together with them.”
“We should remember their birthdays, acknowledge all their special occasions and be there for whatever they need, be it small, say, a single room, a few pillows, wallpaper and paint, or a larger job. This is what service is about and doing the small things leads to referrals and bigger work. A single sofa can turn into a fifth home down the road.”
Butera likens his perspective to that of the luxury automobile companies like BMW who hook younger clients on their simpler cars (300 series) and continue to cater to them with larger, more decked out vehicles (the 500 and 700 series) as they mature and gain resources. He’s given his point of view a concrete manifestation in highly diversified product lines in all the key home categories “that have something for everyone,” he says.
“I’m looking to be a complete brand. Through licensing, people can get a piece of my vision and a piece of luxury at whatever level they buy.”
The higher-end Barclay Butera Collection incorporates Barclay Butera Home upholstery and case goods, Kravet Collection textiles (four lifestyle-focused collections for town & country, mountain, city and beach) and area rugs, coordinating paint collections from Benjamin Moore, and custom upholstery and pillows for The Hearst Castle Collection. In the coming year, the designer will develop lighting, accessories, wallpaper and broadloom wall-to-wall carpeting as well as outdoor textiles for Kravet.
For more price-sensitive consumers buying at retail, the designer has created Barclay Butera Lifestyle offering home fragrance and candles from Archipelago and wall art from Wendover Art Group. The April 2010 High Point market will see the introduction of 100 more skus of wall art and over 200 skus of case goods and upholstery. Butera will also introduce natural jute, sea grass and sisal wall-to-wall floor coverings and area rugs, accessories, lighting and occasional pieces.
“Right now I’m very focused on how I’m going to merchandise the 14,000 square feet that will showcase my April launches,” says Butera whose richly accessorized spaces, rife with tailored furnishings and pattern-on-pattern arrangements, recall Ralph Lauren’s take. “We both approach interiors through the lens of fashion,” he says. “I do a lot of tufting details and nickel nailhead and layering, in the vein of adding a pocket square and cuff links to a shirt.” Butera can be counted on to evoke complete lifestyle visions with his wide-ranging product offerings but these are decidedly not trend-driven, he says.
“I’m often asked to cite new trends. For me what is stylish is what I’m designing at the moment and that stems from where I’m designing.”
In the living room in a very large Laguna Beach home occupied by a single man, Butera focused on making the most of sand and cliff views and creating a casually elegant atmosphere with a touch of formality. To that end, he eschewed heavy drapery treatments and tinted the windows with a UV coating, painted the millwork in an airy high-gloss white and the walls in Dunn Edwards’ Fool’s Fossil-a rich taupe tone.
To shape the seating area, he placed a pair of Barclay Butera Home Sussex Sofas on each side of a Ralph Lauren coffee table. The sofas are wrapped in raffia and feature nailhead detailing and a linen bench cushion lined with an array of blue-and-white paisley and striped blue pillows. Barclay is a huge proponent of using spectacular area rugs to ground his arrangements-the one underlying this setting is an antique.

The home’s breakfast nook struts a round mahogany veneer table from Baker circumscribed by four Ralph Lauren Home chairs sporting striped upholstery. A fan of symmetry, Butera placed small round side tables on each side of the bay window. “Everything is in the details,” he says, pointing out the beading on the shades of the chandelier (a found piece) and the striped upholstery on the inside of the chairs. “A focus on minutiae transforms objects and layers visual richness into the room,” he says.

In a family vacation house nestled in the mountainous terrain of Park City, Utah, Butera assembled a mix of relaxed and more formal pieces in an earthy palette of browns, rusts and reds. For him, a room is about laying the groundwork with the bigger pieces and then having fun with the smaller objects that flesh it out.
In this case, the framing is established by means of a great carpet, a pair of Barclay Butera Home Somerset Chairs with dressmaker flounces, a Grant Wing Chair with an open bracket brace, and a leather Manhattan Sofa, all surrounding a Ralph Lauren Home wicker basket cocktail table. “The basket draws the eye to the center of the room,” says the designer, “and then the tray gives it another dimension. Filling in a room is where the true talent lies. What my company is doing is creating Garanimals for the home with the objective of making it easy to mix and match and put together a beautiful interior.”

In this neutral-toned bedroom looking out over the desert landscape outside Zion National Park in Utah, Butera flanked a custom bleached oak platform bed with large zinc containers filled with branches gathered on the property. “These are simple dramatic features that make the room pop,” he explains. “The occupants are retired and this is their third residence so the goal was to provide a walk-in/walk-out, maintenance-free lifestyle. Minimal accessories and no live plants.”
A stack of towels rests on a table, intended for use of the Jacuzzi located just beyond the window. A slightly textured wool carpet preserves a calm atmosphere. The trio of antique tree prints above the bed act as a counterpoint to the desert terrain. “This room works beautifully in Utah but because it is restful and urbane,” says Butera. “And so, it would work just as well in New York City.”

Butera shaped an entertainment room with multiple seating areas for a married couple with no children residing near the beach. “The palette is quite unexpected for a waterside home,” he says. “We went for taupe, brown and ebony to fuel a sense of laid-back elegance.” Here, custom-designed pieces-the coffee table and the round side table-join forces with a Barclay Butera Home zebra-covered ottoman and neutral sofa and a pair of found British colonial-style rattan chairs.

Using a pair of canopy chaises from Janus et Cie, two found bamboo chairs and a Ralph Lauren Home coffee table, Butera created a year-round gathering space for a penthouse with 1600 square feet of terrace offering up views of the Coronado Bridge. Barclay Butera Home pillows spice up the neutral setting and a seagrass-like indoor-outdoor carpet anchors it.

“There are no rules in interiors,” says Butera. “Blue and white works just as well in the desert as it does at the beach.” Proving his point: this Palm Springs home’s irreverent mix of pillows, glassware and lamp bases in a blue-and-white palette with Zen touches, a rustic wooden table and ceiling insert, and a whimsical chandelier. “By fusing different sensibilities or merging your tastes with those of your clients, you teach them a different taste level,” he says.
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Headshot courtesy of Barclay Butera Inc.
All other photographs by Mark Lohman.
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