Your Outdoor Style - Jason Champion

Jasion Champion's Temple on Siesta Key, Florida

Many of you will remember our vendor Jason Champion from Season 4 of HGTV's Design Star.  We sell Jason's line of distinctive contemporary outdoor furniture.  Bold geometric patterns and glossy colors make Jason's furniture works of art and conversation pieces for your outdoor space.  Today Jason has kindly offered to share a glimpse into his own personal design style.  What is a special about this post is that he has offered us photos from his three latest homes so we can see how his design style changes as his venues do.  Plus after our post on Florida Modern and the houses of the Sarasota School of Architecture it is so exciting that Jason's second home was from this School!

Thanks for sharing Your Outdoor Style with us Jason!

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Design 101 - Saxon Henry Part 2 - Florida Modernism

Updated on October 22, 2010 by Home Infatuation

Design and architecture journalist Saxon Henry has just recently released a book, Four Florida Moderns.  The book concentrates on four current masters of Florida modernism and we will look at them in this post.  In Part 1 of our interview with Saxon she started to talk about Florida Modernism by mentioning one of its greatest moments - the Sarasota School era. Before we give you Part 2 of our interview with Saxon we'd like to take a moment to mention the Sarasota School Era.

Rupp-Seibert HouseThis post-war and regional style of architecture is associated with Florida's Central West Coast or more specifically Sarasota, Florida hence it's nickname of "Sarasota Modern". This style is still popular and many great examples still exist today. The Sarasota Architectural Foundation's charter is "to promote preservation and awareness of Sarasota's architecture and design, beginning with the Sarasota School of Architecture and beyond."

For more examples of Sarasota Modernism we found this great virtual tour movie at the PupuluxeBooks Blog

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Design 101 - Saxon Henry Part 1 - The Floridian Style

Decor Fall 2010, Photograph - Michael Partenio, Stylist - Stacy Kuntsel

In between her travels to Decorex we got the chance to talk with design and architecture journalist Saxon Henry of Roaming by Design about the Florida design style.  Saxon's has just written a book called Four Florida Moderns (which we'll talk about tomorrow in part 2 of this post) and she's spent a lot of time immersed in the world of Floridian design.

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