This Month's Features

Metropolitan Home and Showtime are proud to present Metropolitan Home's Showtime House, a groundbreaking print and television partnership launching in September. Come and see how top design stars Jamie Drake, Laura Kirar, Vicente Wolf, Amy Lau, White Webb, Tori Golub, Johnny Grey, Luca Andrisani, Enea, Kirsten Brant and Jim Zivic have transformed a beautiful Gramercy Park townhouse into a luxurious beacon of modernism inspired by original Showtime hit series - Dexter™, Californication, The Tudors, Weeds, The L-Word® and United States of Tara.

Showtime has spent all summer filming a TV special around the making of Metropolitan Home's Showtime House. This half-hour program will air on Showtime On Demand and will appear as bonus features on Showtime series DVDs. To find out more about this new show, see video teasers and enter great sweepstakes go to SHO.com.

The Showtime House will be open to the public for walking tours on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am- 4 pm starting on September 13. Admission is $25 and all proceeds from ticket sales will benefit our charity partner Happy Hearts Fund, which provides healthy childhood development for disadvantaged children around the world.

www.SHO.com
www.happyheartsfund.org

The Plain & Fancy Gebrian kitchen exudes both classic and contemporary style. From the soft maple Shaker door style to the more transitional Vogue door style of the island, this kitchen is both impeccably stylish and practical. All Plain & Fancy cabinetry is completely custom, built to the homeowner's specifications - from wood species to door style, and everything in between - for a space that's truly original.

www.plainandfancycabinetry.com

Plantation home furnishings boast a design lifestyle for the 21st century, combining signature contemporary American furniture with international cross-cultural accents. The Plantation experience attracts even the most discerning Los Angeles customers to their trendsetting California retail showroom locations.

www.plantationusa.com

Helping to inspire a creative community, the San Diego Fine Arts Society is pleased to present "Urban Trees." This large, outdoor public art exhibition will showcase grand sculptures by local San Diego artists. These works will be on display from August through September at the Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas, California. "Urban Trees" is the latest in a series of Phantom Gallery exhibits, presented by the not-for-profit SDFAS. Phantom Gallery exhibitions feature group and solo shows of emerging artists. The SDFAS supports and strengthens the role of art in neighborhood preservation and revitalization, enhancing the quality of life for all San Diego residents and its visitors.

www.sdfas.org
www.qbgardens.org

Ann Sacks elevates ceramic tile to a true art form with the introduction of Perennial, a collection of handmade ceramic mosaics. Ann Sacks offers innovative and beautiful designs in tile and stone.

www.annsacks.com

BDI furniture collections strive to go beyond the everyday to bring functional, relevant and enriching furniture into the home. BDI strives to create products that truly enhance the home through a true passion for design.

www.bdiusa.com

July 20 - October 20

Experience this two-part exhibition on the significance of factory-produced architecture. Indoors a retrospective maps prefabrication's rich history. Outdoors and adjacent to MoMA, five architects fabricate full-scale houses.

For more information, visit www.moma.org/homedelivery

* Please note: MoMA stays open until 8:45 p.m. on Thursdays in July and August.

The Container Store® offers complimentary design services with elfa®, the premier shelving and drawer organization system. From the closet to the garage to the pantry – any room in your home – elfa® can solve your every storage need.

www.containerstore.com

Charting New Directions in Design, Architecture and Practice

To benefit the contact sector, Metropolitan Home has launched Fulcrum, a branded supplement that talks about the practice of design as well as projects, and that values process as much as product.

Under the guidance of Metropolitan Home’s Editor in Chief Donna Warner and Fulcrum editor Marissa Bartolucci, Fulcrum features fresh and inspiring photos and covers all areas of design from architecture to interior design, and technology to industrial design.

While you are checking out our new blog, be sure to take our survey and let us know what you think of Fulcrum. You will be automatically entered to win a $1,000 gift certificate from Design Within Reach!

www.fulcrummag.com