After a long time searching we have eventually found our North American Distributor. It is the wonderful Lisa Rickert who is spearheading the whole operation! Lisa bought my book, Creating the French Look and decided to order my paint on line even though coming from England it is fiendishly expensive. She LOVED the paint - as people usually do once they have used it, and decided to see if she could be the distributor having seen that we were looking for someone.
Lisa M. Rickert,
Jolie Design & Decor, LLC
New Orleans, LA
(504) 247-3788
joliedesign@yahoo.com
Check out her web site too!
www.usajoliedesign.com
I'll be interviewed live on Martha Stewart Living Radio on the Morning Living show on
Tuesday, March 9th 2010 at 7 am EST (12 noon GMT).
Tune in to Sirius XM Channel 112 to hear me discuss my new book with hosts
Kim Fernandez and Betsey Karetnick -- the segment will be 15-20 minutes
| Grand Designs Magazine Grand Designs Magazine - a mention of the new book showing the cover on page 4 of the March edition. |  |
Paint Transformations, Annie Sloan's new book will be published on April 8th, 2010.
There will be a series of Demonstrations and Workshops held at various places for the launch of Annie Sloan's new book 'Paint Transformations'
In the Netherlands, Annie will be demonstrating techniques on Monday April 12th . Details to follow
At Carte Blanche Studio near Auchterader, Perthshire, Scotland there will be a course in Monday April 26th
Sally Bourne Interiors, Muswell Hill in London, Saturday May 15th 2010 full day course with signed copies of the new book
At Smoke on the Water in Sandwich kent there will be a workshop on Tuesday May 25th. Book through Smoke on the Water 01304 611600
January 28th 2010 filming for Kirsty's Homemade Home for Channel 4. we strated at 8.30 and went on to 8 at night! What a long and arduous day. Phew. These guys really work hard.
It will be aired in the autumn some time but Channel 4 haven't given exact times yet.
KIrsty was a hoot! She was twittering on her Blackberry all the time between painting and working with me. Crazy lady but lovely. She looks wonderful!
Sunday Telegraph, January 31st part of a series on designer's rooms
I chose my garden room as I love it in so many ways.
John Lawrence was the photographer
PS They did get one thing wrong - I was not born in Africa but Australia. Same initial letter I suppose!
Paint Transformations is now finished! This is the cover showing a piece I did. The spots were done with a potato. 50 old pieces of furniture painted with step by step photos showing how I did it. Publication date April 8th 2010 |  |
PAINT FOR THE USA
We have a wonderful small family run company in the USA who are making our paint. If you have a shop or run a painting school you may order our starter packs of paint, wax and books from $800 approx.
If you want to become a retailer of our paint email me on paint@anniesloan.com
So far we have had interest form Canada and a decorative painting co-operative www.sisterhands.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Annie-Sloan-Paint/238287625304
Come and visit 'Annie Sloan Paint' on Facebook and become a FAN
I regularly post photos and information about paints, courses, my book's progress, houses and colours
( Not 'Annie Sloan' as this is my personal facebook site - you're welcome to that too but its not so paint orientated of course)
| A potentially nice piece but the journalist got it wrong about our paint! She's gone and rubbed down and applied ESP to the piece when she didn't need to at all. She's made loads of work for herself. Anyway, they say that no publicity is worse then bad/wrong publicity so I should smile really! |  |
| Annie Sloan Paint with Anna-Marie in Germany Go visit this site ----------- http://www.avm-design.com This is Anna-Marie von Mangoldt's wonderful web site for Annie Sloan Paint in German. Anna-Marie has lots of plans and exiting developments for the next year working with the paint on furniture and interior design projects, finding stores to sell the paint, running workshops on how to use the paint and getting everyone to know about it. If you are interested in being a stockist in Germany, get in touch with through the German web site |  |
We've had a lot of interest from people wanting to be stockists recently.
The two latest are Sally Bourne Interiors in Muswell Hill in London, and Nellie in the Shed in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. The latter have a great little video you can see on Youtube. Brilliant - here's the web site below;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxCIRLZqbvg
Well I like being called a Paint Legend!
We've added some more dates to this because there has been so much interest!
| 'Creating the French Look' has been published and is selling really well as it seems to be just what lots of people have been waiting for. We have some great publicity in the interior design magazines such as a double page spread in 'Country Homes and Interiors' as well as Homes and Gardens and BBC Homes and Antiques It's a practical book with step by step instructions on painting old furniture and making curtains and cushions Order a copy now and get it signed by Annie . |  |
| Is there an interior design gene we wonder? We have just found out that Annie Sloan is related to an old and very influential interior design company in New York. Nick Sloan, Annie's brother, submitted a cheek swab for analysis, and it seems that the connection goes back probably 5 generations to either Ireland and Scotland so it is rather distant but we are like the idea of an interior design gene! Here is a piece from the Wikipedia article on the company. The advertisement is from a 1902 magazine called the Scribners Magazine. 'W. & J. Sloane set the national decorating taste of the United States, and decorated the homes of the most prominent people in the country, including the White House, created Hollywood movie sets, and even designed and decorated interiors of automobiles. It was the choice of the elite in New York. ' |  |
| *The Dutch edition of Creating the French Look' was published at the end of October 2008. It is called 'Verftechnieken en homedecoraties uit Frankrijk' and you will notice it has a different cover to the English edition. price € 22,50 and the ISBN is 978 90 213 3817 0 |  |
We may have found a stockist in Dorset - fingers crossed !
No we need someone in Sussex as well as somewhere in Yorkshire.
After that, what about Wales!
