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Houston interior designer Nina Magon has a new collecton of marble home accessories plus dinnerware and lacquer placemats at Bergdorf Goodman.
Houston interior designer Nina Magon has a new collecton of marble home accessories plus dinnerware and lacquer placemats at Bergdorf Goodman.
Houston interior designer Nina Magon has a new collecton of marble home accessories plus dinnerware and lacquer placemats at Bergdorf Goodman.
Houston interior designer Nina Magon has a new collecton of marble home accessories plus dinnerware and lacquer placemats at Bergdorf Goodman.
Houston interior designer Nina Magon of Nina Magon Studio has been racking up frequent flier miles lately, jetting between Houston and New York as she prepares for the launches of her new home goods collection at Bergdorf Goodman as well as a separate collection of Dekton slabs with Cosentino.
The collection with Cosentino, its first with an interior designer, is its new Dekton Oniriko group of eight, marble-inspired patterns, with veining ranging from light gray to warm reddish gold. Its Vigil pattern resembles Calacatta marble with thick gray veins and a bit of gold. Two of the patterns, Morpheus and Daze, have Dekton's Velvet Texture finish.
Dekton is now certified as Carbon Neutral – the only carbon neutral slab surface – and it uses recycled materials from its own manufacturing process.
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Magon's collection for Bergdorf Goodman in New York can be found through Nov. 10 on the prestigious seventh floor of the chi-chi Fifth Avenue store. A happy consumer of fashion and couture, Magon said that Bergdorf Goodman and its parent company Neiman Marcus "have always represented the best of everything in the luxury goods world in my hometown and in New York."
The collection for Bergdorf Goodman includes a few pieces of furniture, marble accessories, porcelain dinnerware and placemats, plus specially finished items from her collection with Studio M Lighting.
Magon's dinnerware patterns — named after her children, son Aryan and daughter Alina — were made through a manufacturer in Portugal. The coordinating lacquered placemats ($220 for a set of two) were made through Manhattan-based Von Gern Home. The dinnerware is priced from $52 for a saucer to $300 for an oval platter.
"The collection with Cosentino is so exciting – this big company and to have a collection that is launching worldwide with my name on it. It is incredible. (Bergdorf Goodman and) Cosentino are two things in a life or career that are both apex moments, where you reach a level you want to be at. Imagine two happening at the same time and the level of excitement of that," Magon said in between trips to New York.
Magon found a manufacturer in Turkey who could create prototypes in veiny white and black marble, generating early pieces such as luxurious bowls, vases, wine holders and ashtrays that vary in price from a small ashtray for $60 to 12- or 15-inch vases with bubbly or carved exteriors for $1,200. The goods will be stocked in the store, but they can also be custom ordered in different sizes.
"I have an affinity for marble — marble accessories, especially. I like using (manmade stone) in homes for its durability and function, but when it comes to decor, I love the look of marble and I feel that nothing can really beat that," said Magon, who owns the Nina Magon Studio contemporary interior design firm in Houston.
The goods are part of a display that often inspires Magon: pink. This one is a hot pink so that anyone on their way to Bergdorf Goodman's Seventh Floor Restaurant won't be able to miss it. She created a hot pink acrylic structure to hold the accessories, plus custom pink lighting and a custom-made pink rug. It will include two large marble tables with hot pink chairs.
"It’s going to get attention because it’s a little loud — I want to get their attention to notice the installation," she said of seventh floor shoppers. "It's not just individual pieces and dinnerware; it's a whole installation. The acrylic is playful and fun, and when you mix it with statement marble, it looks like luxury. That’s what we’re trying to depict."
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And for anyone who can't get to New York, you can find her dinnerware at Zadok Jeweler's, a chic Galleria jewelry store where Magon handled interior design.
Pieces from her Studio M Lighting collection will be given a custom powder-coated finish exclusive to Bergdorf Goodman. These items will be limited-edition pieces with a six to eight-week lead time and prices range from $675 for a three-light pendant to $5,250 for a 19-light chandelier.
The fashionable Magon is a longtime shopper of Bergdorf Goodman and when she saw a display of interior designer Kelly Wearstler's home goods in the store three years ago, she hoped that she, too, would someday have her name on products there.
"It’s such an honor; there are so many who collaborate with Bergdorf Goodman. It’s the Rolls Royce of retail. To be given this opportunity is a huge honor," Magon said.
As the mother of young children, she also hopes she can provide an example of what's possible for young women.
"I'm trying to go as far as I can in the industry. I love when young people come to me and say 'I want to be a designer, how do I do that?'" Magon said. "You feel like, as a woman, you're making a difference. I see my daughter moving stuff around in her room and it's interesting how she uses things and what sticks and what doesn’t."
Diane Cowen has worked at the Houston Chronicle since 2000 and currently its architecture and home design writer. Prior to working for the Chronicle, she worked at the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune and at the Shelbyville (Ind.) News. She is a graduate of Purdue University and is the author of a cookbook, "Sunday Dinners: Food, Family and Faith from our Favorite Pastors."
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