“Beauty’s where you find it”
The publishing powerhouse Condé Nast recently teamed up with to relaunch an online store that specializes in images from Condé Nast magazines. The Condé Nast store () now sells thousands of photographs, illustrations and cartoons from such titles as The New Yorker, Golf Digest, Glamour, Vanity Fair and Vogue in various sizes, matting, framing and glazing options. Respected artists whose works are available through the store include Edward Steichen and Irving Penn, and New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast, Bob Mankoff and Barry Blitt.
Click and paint
Sherwin-Williams has developed an Internet-based color-matching tool called “Chip It!” The idea is that DIYers can use an online image to determine the closest Sherwin-Williams hue. To get started, create a profile at and then add the Chip It! bookmark to your Internet browser toolbar. This bookmark allows users to identify up to 10 Sherwin-Williams paint colors represented in online photos simply by scrolling over the image. From there, consumers can add the photo and corresponding color palette to their Chip It! profile, share the creation socially or print it out. “We know that finding the right color is the biggest roadblock for consumers when they are ready to paint a room,” said Jackie Jordan, Sherwin-Williams’ director of color marketing, in a statement. “We want to help them.”
Fashionable cookware
HSN () has launched a line of stainless-steel cookware, small appliances (including pressure cookers and immersion blenders), cutlery and cooking prep tools in conjunction with Bon Appétit magazine, where each item is “vigorously tested” before becoming available to consumers. The idea apparently struck a culinary chord with food-loving shoppers as Day One of sales, last Tuesday, resulted in more than 20,000 pieces purchased from the new Bon Appétit Collection, according to HSN. Prices from about $15 to about $200.
