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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.
aspire design and home is seeker and storyteller of the sublime in living. It is a global guide to in-depth and varied views of beauty and shelter that stirs imagination; that delights and inspires homeowners as well as art and design doyens. Collaborating with emergent and eminent architects, artisans, designers, developers and tastemakers, aspire creates captivating content that savors the subjects and transports with stunning imagery and clever, thought-provoking writing. Through lush and unique visuals and a fresh editorial lens, aspire explores what is new and undiscovered in art, interiors, design, culture, real estate, travel and more. aspire design and home is an international narrative and resource for all seeking the sublime.
WestEdge is a three-day event that offers the best in modern design, all in an environment designed to engage, entertain and inspire. The fair offers the opportunity to shop from premium design brands – many new to the West Coast and meet the designers behind thousands of inspiring products. In addition, attendees gain insight from leading names in the design industry with a full series of educational programs and are invited to enjoy culinary demonstrations, special events and more.
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.
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.
Douglas Funkhouser grew up in New York City and, at an early age, studied under Japanese acrylist Nori Yamato. He later attended Lester Polokov's Studio and Forum of State Design in Greenwich Village, where he developed skills in set design, paint and costume. He gained entrance to The United Scenic Artists Union and pursued a career in the theatrical arts.
After more than a decade of work in theater, Douglas decided to apply his craft to residential interiors. He produced hand-painted finishes, textiles and wall coverings for such notables as Bruce Gregga and Michael Smith, and collaborated with Rose Tarlow in the development of the Melrose Collection.
He comes to the printed fabric world naturally. From the scenic arts to the decorative arts, his disciplines have informed him to create this fine handcrafted line. The evolution of the line is a reflection of the master finishes and custom murals that grace his portfolio.
Douglas has since developed le gracieux, his own line of hand-crafted linen textiles. He borrowed the term from an essay by French author Montesquieu, in which he discusses the many degrees of pleasure contained within the arts. le gracieux (the gracious) was listed among them, meaning "that which is refined and beautiful."
At le gracieux, great care and time has been devoted to producing a line of fine, printed linens that possess a look and feel of antiquity. They use hand made materials and procedures that have been employed through the ages.
Their hemp and French linen fabrics are hand harvested in much the same way they have been for centuries. They are hand printed and dyed at their own facilities on a fabric that is naturally beautiful, durable and safe for the environment.
