Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Thomas O'Brien-Rebeccah Hardman






































DESIGNER AND MERCHANT, COLLECTOR AND TASTEMAKER, THOMAS O’BRIEN HAS PIONEERED THE STYLE OF WARM MODERNISM
•“Modern point of view, together with a love of things historical…You can create a style that is warm and inviting and familiar with a modern backbone.” -THOMAS O’BRIEN
•Founder and proprietor of Aero Studios, one of the county’s most influential young design firms
•Retail Emporium, Full Service Interiors Practice, and Commercial Development Arm
•Born in upstate NY-1961
•BFA from The Cooper Union in NYC- 1986
•Resides in Manhattan and Bellport NY

MERCHANT AT HEART- Product Designer…
•Hickory Chairs- FURNITURE
•Groundworks- TEXTILES
•Reed & Barton- TABLE TOP AND GIFTWARE
•Visual Comfort & Co- LIGHTING
•Waterworks- BATH
•Safavieh- CARPET
•Target- AFFORDABLE HOME
•Designer to the Designers
•Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, NKNY Retail
Featured in Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, Out, Interior Design, House Beautiful, Domino, Veranda, New York Times Magazine, Better Homes and Garden.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Kelly Hoppen- Kaitlyn Davies






Kelly Hoppen was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her love for design was influenced by her parents, her father worked in the fashion and her mother was a business woman dealing with antique maps and books. As far as her career, Kelly began at a young age of 17. She is famous for her color selections in using muted tones such as taupe. Kelly has devoted the past 25 years to design and developing a style involving straight lines, strict symmetry, neutral color and a splash of eclectic. She combines style, luxury, and simplicity which creates a successful outcome towards her work.
Her cool, modernist aesthetic is at once timeless and at the cutting-edge of style of today. She has appeared in pages of magazines like Architectural Digest, as well the books she has written such as East Meets West and Monochromatic Home. Kelly Hoppen is a world renowned British designer who has won international acclaim through her matchless design aesthetic.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Melissa Lundberg introducing Victoria Hagan




VICTORIA HAGAN


Victoria Hagan's mother was a fashion illustrator. When she accompanied her mother shopping, her mother would ask her opinion on the different fabrics, to which she always had a response. By the age of ten, Victoria was advising her friends as to what color they should paint their rooms. Visits to the Metropolitan Museum also influenced her decision in becoming an interior designer. She attended The Parson's School of Design. While attending the school she interned for the late Simone Feldman. “Meeting Simone was one of the luckiest days of my life,” says Hagan. “She was not only very talented, but stylish in a way I’d never seen before." She now serves on the Parsons Board of Governors.

Hagan has been practicing interior design for 20 years and established her own firm in New York City, Victoria Hagan Interiors, in 1991. When she first began practicing the New York Times described her work as "bound to be influential." In 2001 she launched Victoria Hagan Home, which features fabric and furniture. She has been named one of Architectural Digest’s “Top 100 Designers” and New York Magazine’s “Hottest Interior Designers”.Featured in publications such as Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Vogue, W, New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and
New York Magazine. She was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in December 2004.


VICTORIA HAGAN INTERIORS






















Victoria Hagan's design philosophyrevolves around her use of strong silhouettes, materials, and sophisticated neutral colors. She combines both traditional and modern elements within a space. Her designs are simple and comfortable.

VICTORIA HAGAN HOME
FURNITURE










FABRIC




Ellen Larson introducing...Nina Campbell

"When I was growing up, we were always moving house. My mum used to love decorating - I think that's what inspired my love of design. We just moved round and round Belgrave Square because she didn't know anywhere else and loved that part of London. There was no question of moving too far, because our dog had a girlfriend at the Brazilian Embassy in the square. Every time we moved he'd go missing for a day or two, and we'd find him in the garden with her.

I think he liked having the door opened by a butler, it was all very grand.

My home is going to be a very relaxed and comfortable home. The last thing I'd want is for people to come for dinner and think, 'Oh God we're going to that decorator's house, we can't sit down.' A home's a home after all."

· Nina Campbell interviewed by Laura Potter
The Observer, Sunday 30 July 2006


A PERFECT BLEND OF MODERNISM AND TRADITIONAL STYLES





A VARIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNS





Nina Campbell, the world- renowned interior designer, is known for her beautiful interiors as well as for her collections of fabrics, wallpapers, accesories, carpets, and home fragrance. Luxury, practicality, and a sense of wit remain paramount in all of Nina's sought-after collections.



WALLPAPER DESIGNS






Featured regularly in the international design press and the co-author of Elsie de Wolfe: A Decorative Life and The Art of Decoration. She has two retail outlets in London and an office in Atlanta, and her fabric, carpet, paint, and wallpaper collections are distributed worldwide.



A VARIETY OF FABRIC DESIGNS






“Ms. Campbell is renowned for her elegant style highlighted by a rich palette of colours and fabrics. Her glamorous and unashamedly luxurious approach to design has resulted in work for the Duke and Duchess of York, Queen of Denmark, Rod Stewart, Annabel's private club in London and Villa Nova in Barbados, but to name a few.”



Dulux Color Awards (a prestigious design competitions appointed Ms. Campbell as one of their judges for the 2007 competition.






PUBLISHED WORKS
Nina has written four books and each one shows how to create the look that she has been creating for her clients over the last 30 years. The books also show how Nina has set the trends for others to follow over the years and why she is known as one of the world's leading interior decorators.