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The Sustainable Furnishings Council is a coalition of manufacturers, retailers and designers dedicated to raising awareness and expanding the adoption of environmentally sustainable practices across the home furnishings industry.
Their mission is to help companies reduce their environmental footprints as they grow, and to help consumers find healthy furnishings. To accomplish these lofty goals, we provide the best education, promotion, and networking opportunities available. We raise consumer interest in environmentally safe furnishings and promote the development of many more sustainable options.
SFC urges the use of Life Cycle Assessment as the best method for analyzing the environmental and health impact of products and a verifiable chain of custody as the only acceptable method for tracking wood flow. SFC members support the triple bottom line of PEOPLE - PLANET - PROFITS and lead the industry in best practices throughout their supply chains. Members are committed to continuous work toward a healthy future, inside and out.
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The Oasis Alliance (OA) is dedicated to brightening the lives of trauma survivors by co-designing personalized spaces that encourage and support recovery, growth, and mental well-being. Most people believe that interior design is a luxury. We believe that interior design is an underutilized tool to empower, encourage and resurrect people at their lowest point. When we live in personalized spaces that affirm our humanity, we feel important—a major first step in moving past trauma and loss.
Focus Lighting is an award-winning professional architectural lighting design firm located in New York City. Since 1987, we have continually created unique and successful lighting design solutions for projects of all sizes including hotels, resorts, retail, restaurants, museums, nightclubs, offices, and private residences around the world.
The Focus Lighting team’s creative process is informed by a combined experience in theater, architecture, and design. Together the team generates projects that create an emotion with light and engages its audience. We believe that light and its perception within an environment are essential to the human experience. Light brings a sense of drama, composition, balance, and excitement to each of our projects.
With over two decades of experience in interior design, Katie leads McCaffrey Design Group with a warm hearted approach and a curatorial eye. Her guiding vision is to design bespoke spaces that truly reflect each client’s individuality and create homes which function beautifully for her clients’ lives.
Under Katie’s strong leadership, McCaffrey Design Group has developed a reputation of client centric designs that delight with incredibly tailored and unique spaces. Working with a diverse clientele throughout the country, Katie and her team infuse client’s spaces with joy, wit, beauty, and functionality Whether revamping a chic city condo for a tech entrepreneur or working on a cutting edge, ground up winery in Napa for forward thinking oenophiles, Katie delivers her impeccable design with a warm personal touch.
Prior to launching McCaffrey Design Group, Katie served 14 years as Sr, Designer and Design Director for award winning design firm Martha Angus Inc. She later partnered with Martha Angus forming Angus|McCaffrey Inc before starting McCaffrey Design Group. She also learned the interior design business from the inside out as an expert in fine furniture both designing custom pieces and managing custom furnishings and antique restoration for Rossi Antiques. She earned her BA in Graphic Design while also studying Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design and continues to draw inspiration from her time studying painting in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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HSH Interiors brings to life a timeless sensibility guided by a keen reverence for architecture and expressed through comfortable spaces grounded in glamour.
Led by principal designer and visual omnivore Holly Snow Hollenbeck, the studio thoughtfully tailors each project to meet the client's unique needs while channeling Holly's vision around joie de vivre and a sense of place and people, not an era or style.
From its two design studios in California, HSH Interiors extends its geographic reach to clients across the United States and abroad. HSH Interiors' work is well-published in major design magazines including Wallpaper, Dwell, LUXE Interiors + Design, and more. HSH's portfolio includes residential and hospitality projects in desirable locales like San Francisco and the Peninsula, Marin, Napa Valley, Jackson Hole, Lake Tahoe, Manhattan Beach, Beverly Hills, and the Dominican Republic.
Kyle Bunting believes designing without limitation is the ultimate expression of luxury. Since the beginning, Kyle’s specification mantra, - “any size, any shape, any color,” - has enabled designers and clients to freely convey and indulge their utmost design potential. Each piece is a work uniquely suited for the space it was designed.
Hide is a material of incredible depth and dimension that brings unlimited design potential to rugs, walls, pillows and upholstery. Kyle Bunting continues to be true to this one material, constantly creating new designs in hide. With his team of contributing designers, Kyle innovates and expands the possibilities from his studio in Austin, Texas.
Light and Green is North America’s top manufacturer of Plaster LED architectural lighting fixtures. Our field of expertise is modern, minimalist, 100% seamless, trimless paintable recessed downlights, recessed wall lights, interior accent lighting, knife edge track lighting and linear cove solutions.
Haim Attias is a seasoned CEO and entrepreneur with over 25 years of leadership experience, driving innovation and excellence across various industries. As the founder and CEO of Light and Green, Haim is the driving force behind Light and Green, a premier brand specializing in architectural LED lighting fixtures made from eco-friendly plaster and ceramic materials. Under his guidance, Light and Green has become synonymous with sustainable design and high-quality craftsmanship, providing innovative lighting solutions that align with the principles of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility.
Haim’s work reflects a deep commitment to blending cutting-edge technology with sustainability. His entrepreneurial spirit, results-driven approach, and dedication to long-term value creation have made him a respected leader in both the lighting and investment industries.
Threads Soft Goods is a curated collection of handcrafted pillows that celebrates the unique design sensibilities and traditional skills of master artisans from all over the world. They are the threads that connect us to the past.
Two years ago, Founder Eileen Applebaum launched Threads selling one-of-a-kind pillows made from vintage fabrics that she collected over 30 years of traveling overseas and scouring flea markets, antique shops and thrift stores. They were an instant hit with discerning designers and vintage design lovers, and are a labor of love to fabricate here in New York. To showcase this incredible collection, they opened a showroom in the heart of midtown Manhattan.
Building on their success, they then expanded to include a timeless collection of new stocked pillows with a vintage spirit. Eileen has been traveling to India for 25 years as a textile and rug buyer. For this venture, she collaborated with her most trusted artisan partners.
Together, they revived heritage techniques, like Shibori and Kashmiri crewel work and brought fresh materiality to long established processes like weaving and embroidery...adding a dash of secret sauce in every detail.
The back fabrics, the zippers, the zipper pulls, plus special handmade trims, tassels and beads were all considered...little surprises to delight every customer. She chose to use only natural materials of linen, silk, wool, alpaca, jute, leather and cotton to maintain the authenticity of the product.
Relaxed elegance defines the bespoke interior designs that Rachel Laxer Interiors creates for their private clients. Working with Rachel and her team ensures that your project is tailored to work for your lifestyle and personal aesthetic. The studio works to all project sizes and budgets. From room updates to renovations and full ground up construction. Whatever your design need RLI will tailor its service to suit the client.
Rachel’s interest in art and post-war functional art defines the look of her interior design style. Having completed projects throughout Europe, the UK and across the US, Rachel and her team bring a global sense of design to your home.
Rachel Laxer Interiors is based in London and New York. The studio focuses on high-end luxury residential homes, hospitality and corporate spaces; and we deliver bespoke and exclusive interiors to our clients.
We work on projects across the UK, US and Europe and have the ability to work globally with a distributed workforce. Our service covers full and partial interior design, furniture design, vintage and antique collectible design sourcing, art curation, a styling service and we work from concept through completion of the project.
The studio is accredited with the ASID, BIID and SBID.
Passionate about taking the textile, wallcovering, and surface printing processes from analog to digital, Kathryn Sanders and Leana Becker have a new vision for sustainably designing, printing, and manufacturing surfaces for residential, hospitality, and commercial spaces.
Born out of a desire to innovate and experiment, Kathryn and Leana saw the opportunity to unlock the creative potential for interior spaces by working with artists, designers, and architects to illustrate new ways for print, pattern, color, and texture to thrive. After years of experience working in textile development, interior design, and digital printing, it became incredibly clear that creatives craved a collaborative studio that supports their vision and helps guide process, design, feel, and function.
Utilizing their backgrounds — Kathryn’s in textile and substrate development and Leana’s in luxury interior design — the duo meticulously engineered the Western Sensibility textile and wallcovering collections to ensure print clarity, longevity, and unparalleled hand-feel with state-of-the-art, life-friendly technology. With a richer base palette, they challenged the way traditional patterns were conceived — pushing the limits on the size of repeats, layering various textures, and exploring an almost infinite array of colors.
Kathryn and Leana built Western Sensibility to champion digital printing technology, which can help the textile and wallcovering industries decrease their carbon footprint while also increasing its creative capacity. Western Sensibility is a new kind of printing studio that blends design, sustainability, and digital printing technology.