Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

CB2/ Holidays/ Nov, 2015

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling by Studio Marcus Hay, Inc


We are cover star's at SMH, Inc with our wreath making the Nov cover of CB2's latest Holiday themed catalog. We have featured some preliminary images already in previous drops and on the net, but this is it folks, The main catalog out for the season. This is where all our images styled for the season are featured.

Here you will see some new images that we shot in Chicago some months back with the wonderful Photographer, Jonny Valiant

All shot in-house at the Crate & Barrel studio, we get to work with an amazing team that pull out all the stops, All sets are designed and built on site, We spend a number of days designing the different sets for different spreads being conscious to mix up the look and feel of each set. this door on the cover was custom made and has a beautiful arch design which is very difficult to make. We hope you enjoy the remainder of the CB2 images SMH, Inc had the pleasure to work on. 

Monday, October 26, 2015

CB2/ Holidays, 2015


Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc


SMH, Inc is happy to see some more holiday shots appearing online for CB2. We recently worked on the Holidays for CB2 in Chicago with the wonderful Photographer Jonny Valiant

These images appear largely in the new Gift Guide and online in banners on the site.

Holidays are always fun at CB2 with a new range of product available each year. My favorite thing is to see what nutcracker we will be featuring as the theme swaps out from year to year, This year he was a superhero so we got to come up with the concept of a superhero in his own custom mini metropolis. 

Pineapple motifs make a big splash this year and we had fun with pineapple print and planters.

With only 2 months left till Christmas day, It's time to start thinking about the season, Look for more images soon for CB2 from SMH, Inc in coming posts

Sunday, October 4, 2015

Williams Sonoma Home/ Holidays 2015

Photography: Anson Smart, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Paul Raeside, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Paul Raeside, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Paul Raeside, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Paul Raeside, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Paul Raeside, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc


Williams Sonoma Home has embraced Holidays in full force with their new Holiday catalog for 2015. Working once again with the wonderful Photographer Paul Raeside Studio Marcus Hay, Inc spent a number of weeks this year in San Francisco shooting for both Williams Sonoma Home and Cooks, stay tuned for more posts!

Williams Sonoma Home this year has embraced animal print, faux fur and plaid mixed in with lots of red, green and metallics, particularly gold as an accent. The feeling is very luxe and majestic. 

Traveling to Sonoma we spent much of the shoot in a magnificent house on the hill that became the backdrop for many of these photo's.

Thanks to my fantastic Assistants Andrea Greco and Tessa Watson for all the present wrapping and trimming, It took a good part of the day just to dress the tree that stood at a whopping 9 feet tall.

Hope you enjoy the festive spirit and it gets you in the mood for the season. 

CB2/ Holidays, 2015

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay, Inc


It's Holidays again in catalog world and what is a better one to start with than CB2. Studio Marcus Hay has just completed it's round of Holiday shoots and have promptly moved onto Spring but right now as the weather cools and we had into the season of celebration, it seems appropriate to finally embrace this for real.

Working with Photographer Jonny Valiant is always a great experience and with a few weeks in Chicago, Studio Marcus Hay once again loved working with the team, special thanks to Ronnie Haynes and Cory Eigenschenk my wonderful assistants who did an amazing job of keeping calm and collected even when a few decorations fell off the trees.

This is only a soft sell version for the Holidays with CB2, stay tuned for the bumper issue for Christmas coming out soon. 


Thursday, January 29, 2015

Patisserie Set/ Williams Sonoma

Photography: Peden + Munk, Set Design and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Prop Styling: Philippa Brathwaite 

Photography: Peden + Munk, Set Design and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Prop Styling: Philippa Brathwaite 

Photography: Peden + Munk, Set Design and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Prop Styling: Philippa Brathwaite


Photography: Peden + Munk, Set Design and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Prop Styling: Philippa Brathwaite 

Photography: Peden + Munk, Set Design and Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Prop Styling: Philippa Brathwaite 


Last year Studio Marcus Hay was approached to design a very special set for Williams Sonoma, It was to be a French Patisserie designed especially for the Holiday Season. Built in San Francisco ahead of time by the very clever Brett Bachtle. Studio Marcus Hay had team members on both coasts sourcing necessary elements needed for the set to come to life.

It was William Sonoma’s wishes that the set felt like an authentic European café that would house largely their Bundt cakes made from their seasonal and classic bundt pans (that are actually of Austrian origin) and cookies made from their seasonal cookie cutters.

The palette was to be mint, gray and white with a reclaimed pressed metal wall and open shelves. Brett helped design an amazing movable counter in mint with a white marble top that could be moved around on any part of the set.

The floor was painted in Harlequin squares and we sourced authentic tiles to feature in a custom-made shop window ledge. Working within a molded wall, the window was an older window sourced at a local salvage yard. We had designed by the graphics department a transfer sign that could be read on the window.

We had an amazing team and these shots were photographed by the wonderful Peden + Munk. The ever charming Philippa Brathwaite styled out our designed set and Food Stylist extraordinaire Alison Attenborough made all the cakes and helped prop out the set as a whole to make it look like an authentic space.

Of course like many sets that appear in film, only segments of it was ever seen but it helped create the scene for some amazing shots, here you can see it in it’s entirety.   

Hope you enjoy seeing some of the behind the scenes pictures of this beautiful set.

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Williams Sonoma/ Holidays/ 2014

Photography: Seth Smoot, Styling & Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Chris Court, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Seth Smoot, Styling & Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Peden + Munk, Styling & Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Christina Schmidhofer, Styling & Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Peden + Munk, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay

Left: Photography: Peden + Munk, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay
Right: Various images by different teams, 3 images Styling: Philippa Brathwaite, Art Directed by Studio Marcus Hay 

Left: Christina Schmidhofer, Styling & Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay
Right: Photography: Peden + Munk, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay


For Williams Sonoma, Studio Marcus Hay gets into the festive spirit of the Holiday's. Working over a number of months over 2 cities, New York and San Francisco. Studio Marcus Hay got to work with some amazing teams. All of these images are Art Directed by Studio Marcus Hay who came up with a vision for these sections including designing a very exciting Patisserie set that took up half a studio in San Francisco. 

Photographers including Seth Smoot, Peden + Munk, Christina Schmidhofer and Chris Court provided amazing images for this years Holiday Catalog and where all a pleasure to work with. Prop Stylist Philippa Brathwaite brought her special flair to our sections with Peden + Munk and Chris Court.

With only a month till the big day, Studio Marcus Hay may have been in Holiday mode for a number of months but we are excited to head to Australia for a long awaited reunion with friends and family, Happy Holidays to all across the globe! 

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Williams Sonoma/ Holiday Catalog 2014

Photography: Seth Smoot, Art Direction & Styling: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Christina Schidhofer, Art Direction & Styling: Studio Marcus Hay



Photography: Peden + Munk, Art Direction and Styling: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Chris Court, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite

Photography: Chris Court, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite

Photography: Chris Court, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite

Photography: Peden + Munk, Art Direction: Studio Marcus Hay, Styling: Philippa Brathwaite


For Williams Sonoma, Studio Marcus Hay has been very busy Art Directing and in some cases also Styling for the Holiday Catalogs and online imagery. Working with a number of wonderful Photographers including Christina Schmidhofer, Peden + Munk, Seth Smoot and Chris Court and also the amazing Prop Stylist Philippa Brathwaite we have been carving out the holidays in lots of spectacular ways. 

Shooting in both cities, New York and San Francisco, It was great to be able to explore Hanukkah in the mix this year. Studio Marcus Hay designed a blue kitchen for these spreads that features above.

Look out in the coming months for more holiday imagery as we creep closer to those celebrations. 



CB2/ Holiday Catalog

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay 

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay

Photography: Jonny Valiant, Styling: Studio Marcus Hay


For the latest CB2 Catalog out now, Studio Marcus Hay contributed further to the Holiday Catalog with the pages shown above. A few posts below you can see the October Catalog that featured an early Holiday presentation, These are the further pages that made it into the second drop. 

The spreads above are linked to a drinks/ entertaining vibe and also their Renegade section that features handcrafted gift ideas. 

Working again with the wonderful Photographer Jonny Valiant, We managed to add some further sparkle to the festive season. 

Hard to believe it's around the corner.