Congratulations to Bruce Bieri, Jay Graham, Jennifer Wait, and John Savallo for winning the $250 gift certificates Eye of the Day gave away at the recent ASLA Expo in San Diego!
Brent Freitas, owner, and Megan Foster, Marketing and Sales Director, will be working the booth, along with Larry Walling, from Bellissimo Architectural Finishes, who has over 43 years of experience in the applied coatings industry, ranging from industrial/commercial to custom residential.
In our booth we will be showing the diversity and depth of the Terrecotte San Rocco product lines, with pieces ranging from contemporary shapes and forms in the standard terracotta and colored clay, to very classic Italian ornate pieces. The broad range of product styles and colors that Terrecotte San Rocco produces is what makes it very unique, along with the fact that the clay quality is like none other.
We also look forward to showing our clients and the other expo attendees our various service capabilities. We will have pieces on display that show the diversity of Eye of the Day’s services, such as the conversion of a contemporary terracotta pot that has been glazed in state-of-the-art acrylics and epoxys into a beautifully flowing fountain (see some of our fountain conversions on our website here). In addition, we will have examples of our NEW “vintage finishes” which give an old, antiqued appearence to new containers, pots, statuary, etc.
We hope you will stop by our booth if you are at the show (Booth #3131)! If you aren’t yet signed up to attend but would like to, please contact us at trade@ to get a FREE pass!
Below are some articles regarding the show that may be of interest:
“Biggest EXPO Ever Offers Wide World of Products and Services”
“Top Five Reasons to Register for the Annual Meeting and EXPO”
While spring may be a wonderful time to get plants in the ground, fall is the perfect time to begin designing your garden, and a time at which landscape professionals are available.
To encourage you to get started this fall, Jennifer Voss of Gardefacts Landscape Design () and Arianna Jansma of Dramatically Different Landscape Design have a special offer for Eye of the Day customers. For the months of November and December these designers are offering a 25% discount on their design and consultation fees.
Jennifer and Arianna are a talented duo who collaborated to transform a portion of our Garden Annex into delightful outdoor garden rooms, creating four small courtyards to display our merchandise, and enlivening it with interesting and unusual plant material.
If you haven’t been to Eye of the Day to see the display gardens, now is a great time to check them out and find inspiration for your own garden. Whether you have a small patio with potted
plants or a large estate, Jennifer and Arianna can help you create a magical environment.
Jennifer can be reached at: gardefacts@ or at 805-450-1096
Arianna can be reached at: ariannajansma@ or at 805-689-1562
Green. We all know green. And blue and honey-hued. Even red. But these new colors are just begging for description. How about “the color of an early morning Spring sky”? Or “the color of the Pacific Ocean as it meets the sky on a Summer evening”. There’s also “moody sky before a rainfall”. As you have learned while reading past posts, we have recently received a container of the exquisite pottery from Anduze, France and walking through Eye of the Day MANY times during each day, each of us has moments to stop and take in the pallette of colors pulled from nature. The green of a cool forest, the blue in a child’s painting of the ocean, the honey of a field of wheat and the ivory of a butter-rich cream. The red of Marilyn Monroe’s lips?
Anyway… the colors are just the introduction to the story. The pottery results from a popular legend that an Anduze potter attended a fair in 1610 and fell in love with a Medici vase. Inspired, he created the first Anduze planter, combining Italian exuberance depicted by the garland decoration and the austerity of the Cevennes region of France shown in the stocky, practical build of the planter. There is no design style that would not embrace the Anduze Vase. The shape and style (not to mention the colors) are timeless. Eye of the Day is the place to find your little corner of French history, your piece of French pottery.
We have been busy getting ready to go down to Long Beach next week to exhibit at the 2011 Landscape Expo ().
The Expo is next Wednesday and Thursday, October 12th and 13th, from 9am – 3pm at the Long Beach Convention Center (300 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802).
Eye of the Day will be exhibiting in a large booth (#118) and we will have lots of our beautiful Terrecotte San Rocco pieces to show off.
You can view our exhibitor profile on their website for more information.
We hope to see you there!
The French have arrived! Our gift shop is filled with the beautiful pottery of Anduze. From our artisan manufacturer we have diminutive “coupes”, urns and Anduze vases. They all feature a beautiful antique patina that is unique among Anduze manufacturers. Every pot, from the Medicis Planter and Medicis Cup to The Perfect Wine Cooler is finished on a foot-driven potter’s wheel, traditional among older poteries. All of these pieces are small scale and would make superb, extremely tasteful gifts. Eye of the Day is known for its selection of sizeable planters and containers, but this collection includes pieces that would be applicable to the smallest home or as accents in a larger area.