FURNITURE & DESIGN BRIEFS

Robb & Stucky offers free design seminars

Robb & Stucky Interiors at Town Square Las Vegas is offering residents a chance to enhance their design skills with several in-store seminars during April focusing on fine art, decorating small spaces and overcoming design challenges.

All sessions are scheduled at 2 p.m. at the store. The Thursday afternoon seminars are free and open to the public.

Fine Arts Complement Fine Interior Design will be presented April 3. The session will include an introduction to Rosenbaum Fine Arts as well as how to use different forms of fine art to complement any décor style and how creative custom framing can turn a treasured piece of artwork into a new home accent.

Ideas for enhancing small spaces will be presented April 10. Staff designers will share tips on how to turn a corner nook or a small den into a functional and decorative area. Participants will learn the importance of scale and furniture placement in the cozy places.

Black, White and Chic is the title of the April 17 session. Participants will learn how to incorporate the latest black and white trend into their homes' décor, with and without color accents.

On April 24, solving decorating dilemmas will be presented. During the session, participants will be invited to spent 15 minutes each with four staff designers and receive four different perspectives on how to approach the problem. Those attending are asked to bring photos, floor plans and questions.

Reservations are requested and can be made by calling 531-0539.

Robb & Stucky Interiors is located at 6521 Las Vegas Blvd. South.

Use of antiques focus of center presentation

Las Vegas Design Center at World Market Center will welcome interior designer Timothy Corrigan as guest speaker for its First Friday in April. The event is open to interior designers and home-furnishings professionals.

Corrigan, who has been named by Architectural Digest as one of the top interior designers in the world, will present Antiques in Contemporary Design. His talk will take place at 10 a.m. Friday on the 16th floor of World Market Center's Building B, 475 S. Grand Central Parkway.

Attendees will see some of the spaces Corrigan has designed and will learn tips about how to create warm and inviting spaces that are fabulous to look at, yet easy to live in.

Through videos, photographs and stories, Corrigan will focus on designing with antiques to create a look of European elegance infused with California casual and designing for comfortable elegance. He also will share his experience designing the Architectural Digest green room at the Primetime Emmy Awards.

With offices in Los Angeles and Paris, Corrigan's firm has completed projects around the world and has extensive experience in designing and building new structures in addition to restoring historically significant properties. In addition to design services, Corrigan has a successful product line under the name Timothy Corrigan Home.

First Friday festivities also will include showroom specials.

Reservations are required and can be made by calling 599-3093 or e-mailing LVDC@LVDesignCenter.com.