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Avoid boring and cookie-cutter table settings by mixing dinnerware patterns, colors and style.  Fine china isn’t just for fancy dinner parties or special guests any more; fine china and your best porcelain are some of the most durable types of dishware on the market. Spruce up your daily everyday dinners by mixing fine china with your everyday dishes to create bold and unique table settings.

If you already own a collection of fine china or everyday dinnerware and are looking to update your look with out breaking the bank, consider adding dessert plates. Rosanna has salad/dessert plates in a wide variety of colors with beautiful motifs in unique shapes. When paired with the simple elegance of a solid color Vietri plates of the sophistication of a Versace patterned plates transforms an ordinary table setting to an extraordinary table display.

Mixing plate shapes adds an element of interest to your table setting. 

Add a little spice to your dining, visit the well stocked tabletop section at occasions! by design located on Main St. in the heart of the Scottsdale Arts District. Creating the one-of-a-kind look you want takes a bit of effort and trial and error to get the combination just right. Come into occasions! and let our  knowledgable associates help you find your perfect mix of dinnerware for any occasion.

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Captivating, raw, eye catching stones, in elaborate sterling silver and gold settings, Lilly Barrack’s jewelry is artistic in form combining geometric shapes. Her extensive travel and art background resulted in cross-cultural influences with Africa playing a major role.

Lilly Barrack Herkimer and 24k Gold Ring

Herkimer diamonds, luscious green peridots, lavender amethysts and perfect pearls, find them at occasions! by design.

Lilly Barrack_Citrine, Herkimer Diamond and Sterling Silver Earrings

Lilly Barrack Herkimer Diamond, 14K Gold, Sterling Silver Earrings

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Black and Red Glass Pendant

We are pleased to introduce Goldenflow glass lighting pendants. Each lighting pendant is hand crafted, mouth blown, unique, and the perfect fusion of functionality and art.

The swirling pattern created by the fusion of color gives the pendants a unique depth and dimension that will make them a beautiful focal piece even when not lit.

You can choose between the lighting pendants we have in-store or they can be custom ordered to match the color scheme of your home or office.

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Glass Bracelet by Kevin O'Grady

Join us March 11th for the Glass Act Festival ArtWalk, featuring  glass artists; Kevin O’Grady and Elodie Holmes. Kevin O’Grady is known throughout the U.S. and Japan as the most exciting and talented glass bracelet and marble maker today. Kevin’s Pyrex bracelets, marbles and Splash of Glass collections are both high-tech and artisitc. Each piece is a signed, one of a kind, unique work of art.

Elodie Holmes creates sculpture, jewelry, ornaments, and ornamental furnishings such as vases, bowls, paperweights and aroma lamps using a process called Liquid Light. This process involves working molten glass in an intense torch flame of light. Each piece whether a vase, paperweight or ornament has beautiful colors as well as a delicate dancing figure.

Kevin O’Grady will be here Thursday March 11th, to explain his process and technique. Elodie Holmes new line of vases, figurines and paperweights will be on display.

We are open seven days a week at our new location on Main street in the Scottsdale Downtown Arts District. Come join us for the ArtWalk and visit our new location.

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Arabian Horse Show Westworld hosts its 55^th year.

February 11-18^th, 2010.  Remember Valentine’s Day!

Showcasing over 2,000 Arabian horses, the event at Westworld brings in enthusiastic crowds from all over the world. Scottsdale Arts District welcomes visitor to enjoy extraordinary pieces of artwork. Occasions! By design offers a contemporary palate and promises to be exciting.

Our sophisticated art style is displayed throughout our Gallery through artwork, jewelry, and tabletop. Featuring for Valentine’s Day Vera Wang gifts, hand blown glass, Philabaum vases and perfume bottles and Kevin O’Grady glass bracelets. Also showcased is our one-of-a-kind watches that have been weathered, oxidized and age gracefully.

We look forward to seeing you! We are open seven days a week. You can reach us at (480) 423-0506.

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Riley Burnett, Diana Prianto, Fredric Duclos and Lily Barrack

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Jeannie Sellmer "Short Story 1" Oil on Board

Based out of New Mexico, Jeannie Sellmer is an abstract and landscape painter. Her medium is oil on board. When creating her paintings her guiding elements are color, value, shape and texture which evoke both a sense of energy and contemplation. Her paintings invite the viewer to engage in the visual field with a sense of meandering exploration and open interpretation.

The evolution for her paintings is derived from six ideas; color combinations, geometric forms, nature, music, memories and sensations. She brings all of these elements into her paintings through a layering technique. Each layer changes the painting but leave traces of what was originally there.

Her overall approach is to be spontaneous, working the surface while creating an interplay of sublet transitions of color and texture resulting in a complex and nuanced surface of color harmony and balance.

Addie Draper - "Bosque Fall Tree"

A new artist to occasions! Addie Draper who also lives in New Mexico on forty acres of land. Her focus is landscape and after many years of working with pastels she is exploring oils. She is intrigued by the possiblities for texture and expressive movements with oil.

Her inspiration is based from potent moments in her life usually occuring in solitude. She is also inspired by magnificent views of broad landscapes as well as beautiful close ups of a tiny section of the world. The textural qualities of oil paints lead to the beautiful richness of expression that she uses to help translate the experience of a place.

In her work she tries to creat poetry versus a direct representation, suggesting rather than stating. Overall she wants the viewer to take away their own interpretations to create their own narrative.

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The Fiesta Bowl Art Walk was the first art walk of the New Year and it went off with a BANG. More than 150 tourists and Arizona residents visited Occasions! by design and enjoyed the wonderful weather and our beautiful fine art, jewelry and unique table top.

Many were visiting for the game that Monday and supported their team by wearing Boise State and Texas Christian University colors; others were here to see our beautiful new location.

Wishing you a Happy New Year.

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