Special Limited Time Charity Sale
to benefit DESIGNS 4 DIGNITY
NOV 21 – DEC 1, 2011 with a live charity
event Dec 1, 2011 in New York City
finds to benefit the non-profit organization
DESIGNS 4 DIGNITY who believe everyone
deserves a home they can be proud of,
regardless of their financial or social status.
Creative solutions fueled by an imaginative drive underscore the work of Interior Designer Christopher Coleman.
His exuberant work and innate color sense has evolved with the times. His style is colorful, bold and modern. He has a passion for creating spaces with a graphic simplicity of clean lines, mixing shapes and sizes and new materials which add textural interest.
Cited by New York Spaces Magazine as one of 50 Designers you need to know in New York City 2008, 2009, and 2010 and House Beautiful in its top 100 Designers ever year since 1999. This New York based designer believes that everyone deserves good design regardless of budget and he knows how to achieve it!
His unique signature style can be seen in publications around the world, from Miami, Moscow, Hong Kong, London and Caracas.
Coffinier and Ed Ku. Etienne has a Master of Architecture from France and is an International Associate of the AIA and a member of ASID. Their work begins with a strong structural and architectural base and continues into detailed, primarily custom furniture and furnishings. Custom-designed work has ranged from the architectural renovation of a home in Southampton to the creation of a forged iron staircase to Lucite coffee tables and includes almost all elements of a home or apartment. Residential work has included a loft in Soho, complete architectural renovation of a West
Village townhouse, apartments on Park Avenue, an apartment in Paris among many others. The company is currently designing a house in LaJolla in addition to its New York projects. Coffinier Ku Design has also been acclaimed for its restaurant design including Picholine for Chef Terrance Brennan, has participated in three Kips Bay Decorator Show Houses, and has been named one of New York Spaces Top 50 Designers.
DOUG AND GENE MEYER opened their design studio in 2004 after a lifetime of personal and professional admiration inspired them to work together. Since the brothers joined creative forces, the Kentucky natives, now based in New York City and Miami, have gained a reputation for a unique range of products from fabrics to rugs, furniture, accessories, as well as fashion and interior design projects.
Known collectively and individually as master colorists, each brother brings his singular perspective and visual references to each product and design produced by the studio. “But first and foremost our goal is to create useful and enduring products for other designers and the clients they serve that are appropriate to many different kinds of modern life styles.”
Before opening his own Design firm Aman & Carson in 1994, Jim worked with Ralph Lauren’s creative team on Ralph’s personal residences as well as the opening of the flagship store on Madison Ave. In 1995 he left Polo and became the Creative Director for Wathne working closely with the Wathne sisters (Berge, Soffia and Thorun), heading up store expansion and design. Since founding Aman & Carson over 16 years ago, Jim has worked on countless design projects throughout the country from Park Avenue apartments to beach front homes, to corporate interiors. Many of Mr. Aman’s client’s are industry leading architects, art collectors and socialites – he has worked on multiple homes and businesses for each client.
Over the last decade, Jim’s interiors have been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Palm Beach Cottages & Gardens, Town & Country, Traditional Homes, Shelter, and Quest. Book coverage includes Spectacular Homes, House Beautiful – Decorating School and New York Home Book. In addition, Jim’s design firm has been featured in numerous designer showhouses including the 2010 Kip’s Bay Showhouse and has been named one of the America’s Top 125 Interior Designers in House Beautiful.
In 2005, Jim along with his two business partners launched a full furniture line featuring high-quality, custom order pieces and the business has been steadily growing since it’s inception. Recently, his furniture was purchased for the set of Oprah Winfrey’s new
television show. Active in the New York Interior Design community, Mr. Aman is a graduate of Pratt Institute and resides in New York.
John Meeks has been creating luxurious interiors for residential and commercial spaces since 1997. His design career started with the creation of a couture clothing label (MEEKS-HA THAN INC ), which soon caught the eye of luxury stores including Henri Bendel and Martha Inc.
In 1994 John’s passion for architecture and interior design led to freelance projects for many high-end stores, specializing in window and promotional displays as well as set design and execution. His intuitive design vision, hands on approach and sophisticated aesthetic provide a combination that is truly unique. His natural progression into interior design was a swift one, which led to a Design Director position with Aman & Carson a leading interior design firm in New York in 1997. John’s projects vary in scope ranging from residential, commercial to event installations. He currently works with numerous Fortune 500 families throughout the country with most recent projects in New York, Palm Beach and the Hamptons.
John’s work has been featured in designer Showhouses, most recently the 2010 Kip’s Bay Designer Showhouse and has been published in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Palm Beach Cottages & Gardens, Town & Country, Traditional Homes, Shelter, and Quest Magazine. In addition
Amy Statuto is Principal of New York-based ASI Design Studio. Certified as a LEED AP in New Construction through the U.S. Green Building Council, Ms. Statuto has served on Hospitality Design Magazine’s Green Speak Panel as well as their H.O.T. (Hotels of Tomorrow) Panel. Inspired by the organic architecture ideals set forth by Frank Lloyd Wright, Amy seeks in all her endeavors to integrate natural elements by incorporating eco-friendly materials and promoting the preservation of the environment. Ms. Statuto’s design for Bloom, an organic restaurant in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, was nominated for a Green design award and has graced the cover of Hospitality Design Magazine.
A graduate of Parson’s School of Design and The New York School of Interior Design, Ms. Statuto has worked alongside some of the world’s foremost designers–among them, famed restaurant and hotel designer David Rockwell. Her firm, launched in 2009, specializes in design and development of a wide range of spaces including hotels, restaurants, and high-end residential homes. From the schematic phase through the construction phase, Ms. Statuto’s ability to combine classic and contemporary styles allows her to be practical yet cutting-edge to suit both the needs and the fundamental personal characteristics of her clientele. Her clients over the years have included Starwood Resorts and Hotels, Thom Filicia, Inc., Windows on the World, Kenneth Cole, John Mayer, Shepard Smith, Bloom Restaurant Group, culinary celebrities David Burke and Rachel Ray, to name a few.
Amy’s recent charitable projects include the revamping of a Battered Woman’s shelter for Safe Horizons, a non-profit organization that helps move “victims of violence from crisis to confidence.”
Jennifer Flanders is Principal of Jennifer Flanders Inc. Jennifer is trained as a high-end interior designer focused on exceptional creativity, personalized attention and meticulous detail for the discerning client. Jennifer oversees every facet of the design process and blends an innovative mix of traditional and modern elements, capturing timeless sophistication infused with a fresh, youthful flair. Her seemingly effortless designs are executed with proficiency and an intricate understanding of architecture, antiques, art, color, texture and the history of design.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and shortly thereafter cultivated her design skills and style with Ellie Cullman at Cullman & Kravis for six years, before establishing her own firm in 2002. She has designed residences in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Greenwich, CT and Westchester County, NY. Jennifer’s creative talents have been displayed at the 2007 and 2008 prestigious Hamptons Designer Showhouse, as well as at the 2009 Evelyn Lauder Breast Cancer Research Foundation showhouse held on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Jennifer’s work has been featured multiple times in Traditional Home magazine, which also named her as one of the Top 20 Young Designers to Watch in 2009. Jennifer chairs the Designs for Dignity NY committee and is dedicated to changing the lives of those in need through design.
John Rawlins began his professional career at Tucci, Segrete & Rosen, helping to shape the architectural identities of retail giants such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdales and Printemps
of Paris. In 2001, he was recruited by Bergdorf Goodman to be the Creative Director of a $100 million dollar renovation of the historic Fifth Avenue flagship mansion. Over the next four years, John helped lead the reinvention of Bergdorf’s, previously called the "dowdy grey lady” of retail, toward the exuberant fashion emporium it is today. In January 2004, Bergdorf Goodman CEO Ron Frasch signed on to lead Saks Fifth Avenue and asked John to join his team as Creative Director of Store Design. John quickly shifted gears and began to re-shape the physical identity of Saks Fifth Avenue. Within a year, a slick and sophisticated prototype for the company was created and is presently being introduced throughout the company’s 56 global locations. While at Saks, John collaborated with world renowned architect Frank Gehry in reimaging the NYC flagship store and was part of a thinktank led by Gehry and branding guru, Bruce Mau, focusing on heightening the Saks customer experience.
In February 2006, John was invited back to Bergdorf Goodman to design and oversee the renovation of the classic, main floor of the women’s store as well as developing a modernist design concept for the Men’s designer floor, to be realized in 2012. John resigned from Bergdorf Goodman in November 2008 to creatively join forces with his brother Christopher Rawlins at his architectural firm Rawlins Design Inc. Together they recently redesigned and expanded the shoe department for Bergdorf Goodman and a VIP personal shopping complex.
They have also created several retail boutiques and are now working on assorted public areas of the Fontainebleau resort in Miami. For luxury handbag designer Nancy Gonzalez, they created her first stand-alone shop in Seoul Korea in 2009 and recently opened a 2nd boutique in Seoul as well. They are currently creating additional shops for Nancy Gonzalez within Harrods department store in London, Harvey Nichols department store in Dubai and within Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills Ca. John has also recently completed CO-OP restaurant, bar and lounge at the Rivington Hotel in NYC and a pair of hair salons for “hair-stylist to the stars”, Ric Pipino. Aside from extensive retail and hospitality design experience, John is working on several highend residential projects and has served as a Production Designer for an independent film as well as an Art Director and Set Stylist for fashion editorials. His work has been featured in Interior Design Magazine, Surface Magazine, Wallpaper, New York Spaces, VMSD, DDI, paper, and Vibe Magazine.
Born in Moscow and Brooklyn respectively, Mint&Serf (a.k.a. The Mirf) are Mikhail Sokovikov and Jason Aaron Wall. After meeting in 1997, the duo took to the streets of New York City, which has served as a canvas for their creative vision and work that transverses relationships between street art and civic spaces. After launching The Canal Chapter in 2005, followed by The Stanton
Chapter in 2008 Mint&Serf have continued to produce a vast range of artwork including large-scale murals, paintings, sculpture, photographs, and graffiti. Most recently, Mint&Serf traveled to far east with fellow Streetartist LoveMe for LOVEMEMIRF, a collaborative project with art and design website www.And-A.com
www.mintandserf.com
A sense of finesse, the delightful surprise of common materials taken to uncommon heights, the sensitivity to light and nuances of color associated with refined painting. These are the qualities that pervade a Walz interior–be it a commercial setting or residence-created honestly and directly to enhance the quality of life of its occupants.
The reference to the fine arts is not an arbitrary association, but one grounded in fact. Until 1978 Kevin Walz was a painter, having studied fine arts at Pratt Institute and painting at the New York Studio School under Philip Gustion and Esteban Vicente. He turned to interiors (Walz Design, New York) when unsolicited commisions came from clients intrigued by the design of his own living/working loft located in the then-unfashionable section of Chelsea. Yet he cites painting and sculpture as his continual and primary sources of influence along with "non-architectural structures, industrial and agricultural forms."
Mr. Walz’s biography lists a selective array of finely detailed interior installations, architectural projects and signature collections of products, numerous awards and acclaim by the design press worldwide. Mr. Walz is the recipient of the American Academy’s prestigious Rome Prize fellowship and is in the Interior Design Hall of Fame. His designs have been exhibited in numerous museums and his art has been exhibited in galleries in Europe and the U.S. Kevin Walz designed the first and legendary collection of furniture made of 100% cork for KorQinc. Mr. Walz is a single father of two daughters. He has a studio in Rome, where he has lived for 17 years, and an office in New York.
Laura Bohn Design Associates is a New York based international Interior Design consulting firm. Laura Bohn strives to create a comfortable atmosphere using LBDA´s well-edited approach. Bohn will often set unexpected hues and shapes together to give rooms depth and richness that is not easily replicated. An ability to forecast current design trends and interpret client´s needs has made Laura Bohn a New York design authority.
LBDA projects have gained media attention, attracting clients as far as Europe, Japan and Saudi Arabia. The work of Laura Bohn has been featured on television programs such as CNN Style, A&E, Interiors by Design and HGTV, and has been presented in countless books and magazines.
Laura Bohn, a graduate of Pratt Institute, has long played an active role in the design community. She is the co-founder of The Designers Collaborative, a support group for top designers, as well as being a member of both the ASID and Decorators Club. Laura also serves as a visiting critic at local design schools and has taught at Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute. Laura has received two Roscoe awards for her fabric and wallpaper designs and has been inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame.
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