World MasterCard® Fashion Week Sweepstakes: Win seats to the #KORHANIrunway show

Posted on March 7, 2013 by KORHANI home

Do you dream about attending Fashion Week? Here’s your chance to get in on the fashion action. Enter the KORHANI home Sweepstakes to win an exclusive runway experience at World MasterCard® Fashion Week in Toronto!

Win a seat for you & a guest to our carpet couture runway show!

Win invitations to experience World MasterCard Fashion Week and see a runway show courtesy of KORHANI home.

We are giving away 10 pairs of invitations to our carpet couture runway show at 7 p.m. Wednesday March 20, 2013 at David Pecaut Square.

Simply enter to win on Facebook via our “contest” tab or through Twitter @KORHANIhome on tweetsw.in

Tweet via tweetsw.in to enter “Follow @KORHANIhome, and RT this for a chance to win 2 seats to our carpet couture runway show at #WMCFW #KORHANIrunway”

Rules for 2013 KORHANI home Sweepstakes

1. Sweepstakes open only to residents of the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding cities).

2. Sweepstakes applicants must be 19 years of age or older at the time of entry. Winner(s) and guest(s) must bring valid government-issued identification to gain entry into World MasterCard® Fashion Week and the KORHANI home runway show.

3. Invitations are non-transferrable and have no cash value.

4. Only one entry per household allowed.

5. No purchase necessary. Winners are responsible for their own transportation to and from World MasterCard® Fashion Week.

6. IMG Fashion, a division of IMG Worldwide, Inc., and its affiliates, employees and agents and World MasterCard® Fashion Week, its sponsors and vendors, are released from all liability arising from claims arising out of, or in connection with, our consumer promotion and/or contest.

7. Except where prohibited, by participating in the KORHANI home sweepstakes, each entrant agrees to release and hold harmless KORHANI home and its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, promotional partners, prize partners, providers and their respective agents and agencies, officers, directors, and employees (the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in any KORHANI home Sweepstakes or receipt, use or misuse of any prize, including, but not limited to: (a) unauthorized human intervention in the KORHANI home Sweepstakes; (b) technical errors related to computers, servers, providers, or telephone, cellular, or network lines; (c) errors in the administration of any KORHANI home Sweepstakes or the processing of entries; (d) late, lost, or undeliverable email; or (e) injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the KORHANI home Sweepstakes or receipt, use or misuse of any prize.

Mongolian Snow

Posted on November 26, 2012 by KORHANI home

KORHANI home’s Mongolian collection is in stores and perfect for the holidays. Sexy, full of colour and pattern and beautiful. Inspired by the Mongolian landscape, traditional patterns and the culture, this collection will impress all your guests!

Mongolian winters can be like our Canadian winters. The people who live in the mountains layer their clothes, walls and floors to keep warm.

KORHANI home Mongolian Beauty Collection.

The landscape colours that so greatly inspired the collection.

Report On Business

Posted on November 5, 2012 by KORHANI home

Last month the Globe and Mail featured KORHANI home in the Report On Business ‘Made in Canada: Six companies keep it local’.

Cover photo

Loom photo from the Sorel Factory in Quebec, Canada.

“The synergy between our domestic productions here in Canada and KORHANI home’s branding initiatives will create products that will be second to none in the market.” says Moji Korhani, owner, KORHANI home.

The Article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/made-in-canada-six-companies-that-keep-it-local/article4634304/

Number of employees: 150.

Length of carpet produced annually if it were cut into one-metre squares and placed end-to-end: 2,351 CN Towers.

Price of its “Assunta” throw rug: $40.

Family-owned Korhani is only about one-100ths the size of the world’s largest carpet manufacturer, Georgia-based Shaw Industries, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. But if carpet companies were ranked by chutzpah, Korhani would come in No. 1.

At the last three Toronto Fashion Weeks, it has — incongruously — clothed runway models in swatches of carpet (its carpet-cum-fashion has since appeared on runways in Berlin). The PR stunt was the brainchild of Kirsten Korhani, the company’s creative director (the Korhani family, originally from Iran, has been making and selling carpets since 1902).

In Korhani’s most recent designs, colours are bright, patterns are bold, and the overall effect is, well, out there. The wow factor seems to be working: Although exports make up less than half of the company’s revenue — in Canada, the carpets retail in Walmart, among other stores — sales to the United States and Europe are growing. The company has just one factory, in Sorel-Tracy south of Montreal, and since 2001 production is up fivefold — the facility now runs 24 hours a day.

David Pecaut Square becomes the most Fashionable Environment

Posted on October 22, 2012 by KORHANI home

Toronto kicks off fashion week today with over 30 000 square feet of tent space and a 100 ft catwalk in the main room. With each show expecting 900 guests, the Fashion Environment has been spectacularly designed to entertain those anticipating the coming shows. KORHANI home sponsors MasterCard Fashion Week again this season with an exclusive media carpet, welcoming each and every attendee who comes to spectate what talent Canada has to offer.

This year’s Fashionable attendees show off their best looks, passing by MasterCard Fashion Week’s banner.

The tents erected at David Pecaut Square, an amazing location in the heart of Downtown’s fashion district. Surrounded by lights, resultants, theaters, cinemas and clubs, the central spot could not have been more appropriate!

Maybelline sponsors all the makeup at Fashion week, doing a fantastic job, making everyone look stunning.

See you there

Fashionable Homes and Heels!

Posted on October 11, 2012 by KORHANI home

Parading the perfect pair of heels is one of the best ways to make a profound fashion statement! Another way of giving a punch to your style at home is by featuring a powerful rug! This rug pattern from our Mongolian Beauty collection is packed with colour and totally match those amazing PRADA shoes of yours !

At KORHANI home we love matching fashion with interiors, giving rooms tuns of excitement! Who is your favourite shoe designer? Could you design your room around your most coveted pair?!

Dear Beautiful People,

Posted on October 2, 2012 by KORHANI home

Have you ever been to a model casting? Ever waited in long lines of beautiful people? Well, we did last week at our casting for MasterCard Fashion Week.

Each model had to strut their stuff in a big room in front of a panel of judges (us)! The actual process only takes about 30 seconds per person but you would be surprised at how tiring it gets!

At the end of the day comes the decision making, sorting through over a hundred different faces… Who gets chosen?! I guess there is only one way to find out!

Follow us on twitter (@KORHANIhome) and facebook (KORHANI home) for behind the scenes details about MasterCard Fashion Week!!

NUIT BLANCHE A Colourful Recap

Posted on October 2, 2012 by KORHANI home

Leading up to this past weekend we couldn’t wait for Nuit Blanche. My favourite part was everyone out and about on the streets of Toronto enjoying endless activity. It was exciting to see all the cameras snapping shots of their favourite pieces. Did you capture anything spectacular?! Here are some highlights from the weekend.

Lights on all night long! What time did you finally hit the sack?

Capturing a capture!

Light Show

Art for the All Nighter- NUIT BLANCHE

Posted on September 27, 2012 by KORHANI home

This Saturday September 29th, Nuit Blanche once again open’s its gallery doors to the city of Toronto.

Creative people are the ones who pave the way of the aesthetic future. We come up with new and never before seen ideas, we embrace stories and visual direction and maybe most importantly, we participate. Styles do not come and go all by themselves, they must have followers to instigate their greatness and live it out! Toronto throws a great artists’ event for that purpose exactly. Nuit Blanche has taken place for 6 years, over-running the city from dusk until dawn enlightening its city people. Will you be out this weekend? What could be a grander event to find inspiration?

Nathan Phillips Square Lit up for Nuit Blanche.

The event, sponsored by Scotia Bank is FREE and open all night long.

Huge installations are exhibited all over down town. This light-bright wall was fun for everyone!

There are always tuns of interactive art pieces, encouraging people to create themselves in the night!

You can also find meandering exhibits roaming through the streets. Zombies show themselves each year, at any unexpecting street corner!

Favourites from the Toronto IIDEX Show

Posted on September 25, 2012 by KORHANI home

Last week KORHANI home’s design team got to skip work to check out the amazing IIDEX interior and architecture show in downtownToronto! Some of the highlights were the conceptual adaptations of every day objects into spectacular interior art works and amazing products ranging from innovative eco floorings to growing walls. Thousands of ideas for truly creative spaces! Here are some of our favourites, such inspiration!

This instillation piece reminds us of German designer Lars Contzen! Read our blog entry about him!

http://blog.korhani.com/uncategorized/colour-home-creativity-german-interior-designer-lars-contzen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=colour-home-creativity-german-interior-designer-lars-contzen

Coiled metal wall art!

Art deco string chair.

These light filled pylons lined the entire wall. Very striking!

Moss art for outside and inside. It grows anywhere!

Wood wall emphasizing the natural grain.

Rug art! Love this one!

TEXTURE

Posted on September 14, 2012 by KORHANI home

How important is texture to you? Whether it is smooth, rough or soft texture invokes a fantastic sense of mood. Consider TEXTURE next time you redecorate. Maybe it will make your bedroom that much more inviting, emulate your strength, or invoke a past life!

Smooth surfaces are clean and powerful.

Rough walls and floors look vintage and classic.

A soft rug creates a cozy romantic feel.