Magnolia | Bringing inspiration to your space™ Bringing inspiration STUNNING PICTURE AND SOUND WITH A CURVE Magnolia | Bringing inspiration to your space™ INTERIOR DESIGNER GENEVIEVE GORDER SANUS TV MOUNTS’ INFLUENCE ON INTERIOR DESIGN Immerse your senses like never before with the Samsung JS9000 4K SUHD curved TV and HW-J8500 curved soundbar. This beautiful curved TV features the next level of 4K with Nano Crystal Issue number fifteen BOWERS & WILKINS Color that reveals up to 64X greater color expression than conventional HD/UHD TVs.* While this 9.1 TRAINING CENTER channel soundbar features side-firing speakers, a wireless sub and an integrated center channel for DELIVERING DISTORTION-FREE rich, engaging sound. Designed to blend seamlessly together, it is theater-quality sights and sounds, KNOWLEDGE curved, for the next level of home theater bliss. 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Magnolia | Bringing inspiration to your space f o r 6 0 y e a r s™ contents6 creative director/editor-in-chief 2 Exploring the world of home automation adrian clift senior writer/executive editor Insight from Magnolia’s Category Manager Josh Fettig. karl kozlowski 6 The art of sound design marketing manager An elegant retrofit in a stunning Virginia condo. kathryn gliniany content providers 12 SunBrite all-weather TVs josh fettig | sara klarstrom 2 It’s time to watch TV in the great outdoors. editors rachel imbrock | carla morrone 15 Product spotlight digital assets The Bowers & Wilkins T7 wireless speaker. julie eiden | ann johnson 16 So much more than surge protection feature photography alexhayden.com Panamax and Furman, taking protection to another level. additional photography & retouching 16 18 Experience a New Standard Best Buy Studio An Interview with The New Standards Chan Poling. Want to know more? 20 Revving up a man cave Visit us online at MagnoliaAV.com, Bringing a home theater to one amazing garage space. BestBuy.com/magnolia, or follow us at: facebook.com/ 24 A tour of Bowers & Wilkins training center MagnoliaExperience and It’s all about the Art of the Demo. twitter.com/MagnoliaAV. Something you’d like us to know? 24 28 Luxul and Ruckus: Extending your Wi-Fi M magazine welcomes your comments The brains and brawn behind a great signal. and observations. Please send them to: 30 A modern rebuild Magnolia Marketing Dept., Attn. Kathryn Gliniany, Bringing a new home the latest tech from the ground up. 7601 Penn Avenue South, 36 Genevieve Gorder & SANUS TV Mounts Richfield, MN 55423 or via e-mail to How this celebrity interior designer changes spaces with SANUS. [email protected]. 36 40 Upgrading everything: 4K Ultra HD & Dolby Atmos See and hear everything at its finest. 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What silence can teach us about sound. 44 Putting a new heart into a home 650-0305224 How a new home automation system changes everything. 48 (Com) Pairing good wine with great audio 44 Sales Manager Isaac Markowitz shares his passion for audio. find us online @ magnoliaav.com & bestbuy.com/magnolia 1 With home automation, pushing the button to open your garage door can set off a host of events, from your house lights turning on, to your audio system coming to life. “Home automation at Magnolia is about taking all the connectable devices in your home and The new Savant app is navigated using pictures of the rooms on the interface, building one eco system for a clean design and easy functionality. that’s customized to you.” Magnolia is known for offering premium audio, video and home automation. turn your lights on and off from your smartphone. These add a host of cumulative events to that one command. And while everyone knows what audio and video are, the term home controllable light switches may also let you set specific So now, in the home automation world, not only does automation often needs more explanation. What is it, why do I want it, usage times for these lights, allowing you to program your garage door open, but at the same time the yard and aren’t home control and home automation the same thing? As it turns when they go on and off. But in the end, it’s basically lights come on, the lights inside your house turn on, your out ­­­­— no. To clear up some of the confusion around this ever-growing just control. thermostat changes to a pre-specified temperature and category, we sat down with Josh Fettig, Magnolia’s Category Manager for Home automation takes control to a whole new your audio system comes to life. And all this happens Home Automation. level. As Josh put it, “Home automation at Magnolia before you even drive into your garage.” is about taking all the connectable devices in your What’s in a name home and building one eco system around them that’s DIY, the gateway to home automation When it comes to home control and home automation, many use the terms customized to you. For example, for home control, you Most people would rather test the waters in the home interchangeably, but the reality is, they are very different. Home control refers to can buy devices that allow you to control your garage automation world before diving in, so they start with being able to control the devices in your home with your smartphone, tablet or door from your phone, which is great. But when you control, and that often means “do it yourself” solutions. computer. For example, you may have controllable light switches that allow you to add the home automation aspect to this equation, you And that’s just fine with Josh, who finds it’s a great way for 2 | Bringing inspiration to your space for 60 years™ find us online @ magnoliaav.com & bestbuy.com/magnolia 3 people to learn about the potential of home automation. with every company that offers home automation. Many The future is here, and more is coming the temperatures of rooms when people are in them, “Inevitably, there is a larger market for a DIY new companies that are getting into this space don’t We’ve seen countless advancements in smartphone and readjust them when people leave. This has further customer than there is for a custom-install solution, and offer home entertainment products or solutions. So capabilities. It does a host of things in an ultra-compact implications for the home automation world. Some day, that’s true of just about everything we do. But I think it your home is connected by one system, and your home device. It’s this device that does much of the driving similar sensors could identify who is in the room, what increases awareness. So if someone is interested in the entertainment system is controlled another way. Because of home automation today, and will in the future. As they want, and adjust everything in the room to that DIY space, the selection of products at Best Buy® is a Magnolia offers both home automation and home Josh told us, “A smartphone is a lot of things; it’s a mini person’s pre-determined standards. They could even great place to start. Then, if that customer wants to move entertainment, they are able to connect both of these computer, it has a lot of processing power, some even be programmed to have certain settings in the morning, into a more integrated space, Magnolia gets involved.” systems seamlessly. “That’s what Magnolia is all about. have near-field communication (that’s where you touch afternoon and night, or settings when you’re alone or To achieve this whole-home automation solution, We do end to end – the entire home,” Josh told us. “If your phone to another phone to transfer data). It’s that have people with you. The options are nearly endless. you need something that brings all these different you just want one thing, we can do that, and do it really ability that could have your products and brands together. Magnolia’s primary home well. If you want your music to come on when you get electronics knowing you’re in automation brands are Savant and Control4. It’s these home, we can do that. But if you eventually want to do a room, all without you having brands that use hardware and software solutions to take a lot more than that, and as your appetite and budget to alert it with a button push or everything in your home and make them all work from grow, we can expand that to your entire home.” And with app swipe.” a single app or program on your tablet, phone or Magnolia’s Engineers, Project Managers and Installers, In the near future, you computer. Your lighting, fireplace and thermostat you have a dedicated team trained to get your system up could walk into your home and your smartphone would controls, shades, home monitoring system, all and running to utter perfection. ping the room telling it you are there. Consequently, of your home entertainment gear and even This team of Magnolia experts will also work all the technology in that room would adjust to your your sprinkler system can work together as a directly with your architect and builder to assure that any personal settings; lights, thermostat, TV channels, It’s time to get your steak sizzling singular eco system, where one command can new build project is ready for this technology.