Before We Introduce You To Seasonal Living Magazine’s Luxury Virtual Showhouse Sponsors…..
We thought you’d enjoy reading a bit about the story behind how the Showhouse came into being and, if you’d like, we invite you to learn about even more of the backstory by listening to us discuss it on our sponsored podcast with Luann Nigara by clicking here.
It all started back in February of 2020, when Gary Pettitt, the owner of Seasonal Living and the publisher of Seasonal Living Magazine, began thinking about new, innovative, fresh ways to inspire design aficionados around the world.
In addition, he was thinking of relevant ways to contextually showcase his indoor/outdoor products and those of his fellow furniture, lighting and kitchen bath manufacturers to their mutual interior designer customers, given the realities of the pandemic.
Out of those dual desires, Gary conceived the vision for Seasonal Living Magazine’s Luxury Virtual Designer Showhouse, a first of its kind event in the history of the world.
Why is the claim, *First Of Its Kind In The History Of The World* able to be made?
Because this 20,000 square foot estate home, designed and built entirely and only in the virtual world, is the first ever to not only be tourable and shoppable from the safety of your home but it also has both augmented reality product highlights -meaning you can click the QR codes associated with some of the products and see them in your own homes AND you can view it, via virtual reality, on your phone, using Google’s CARDBOARD glasses!
We were honored to have Business of Home, a well known industry trade publication that reaches the international interior design community, break the story of our Virtual Showhouse to their readers.
We invite you to view the link to it at the end of this post.
It’s such an exciting adventure to be on and we are grateful for the 15 sponsoring brands and the 11 nationally known participating interior designer/influencers who said, “YES* when asked if they would like to be a part of it, and who have trusted us to make this vision a reality.
We invite you to meet all the designers in more detail, in this post.
You will be able to get a sneak peek into some of the rooms in Seasonal Living Magazine’s Luxury Virtual Designer Showhouse when it debuts during our online VIP launch festivities event that will take place on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 6 pm ET, on YouTube! Get your complimentary registration to attend, here.
Being hosted by famed podcaster, Luann Nigara, of *A Well Designed Business*, we hope it will help you kick off #Holiday2020 in a fun, inspiring and exciting way.
We invite you to make our Signature Showhouse cocktail recipe, #MarbleOverSilk, developed specifically for the event for us by Nick Type, with you. Click here to get the recipe.
If you do make it before the event, snap a pic, tag us at instagram.com/seasonal_living_trd AND use our hashtag, #SLDS21, and we will reshare some of our favs in our Instagram STORIES, with live links back to YOU!
We hope you will join us! You’ll be able to say Hi to your friends and colleagues in the livestream YouTube comments if you have a YouTube channel!
It will be such a fun way to gather, virtually, to kick off the holiday season and the New Year ahead!
After the event, you’ll be able to tour the entire Showhouse at your leisure starting on page 22 of the Special Showhouse Edition of Seasonal Living Magazine.
Get your complimentary subscription now, by clicking here.
ARE YOU READY TO MEET THE PARTICIPATING SPONSORS?
First, please follow all of our sponsors on their social channels, easily, by clicking the MEET THE SPONSORS buttons on our Showhouse Registration Page, here.
Over the course of Summer 2020, we spent many hundreds of hours on the phone and in ZOOM meetings with potential sponsors. The 15 industry leading brands in the image above and the images below had the vision to say *YES* to being part of something brand new. That’s leadership.
In alphabetical order:
ROBIN BARON DESIGN
Robin is both one of our 11 participating designers and a sponsor, and we are thrilled to have this New York City based celebrity designer and nationally known speaker joining us.
Robin’s blog, Simplifying Fabulous, is enjoyed by lovers of design around the world and we invite you, too, to subscribe to it, here.
Robin’s collections span several categories, including rugs, lighting, casegoods, and upholstery. She is also well known for the stunning custom hardware she utilizes on her nightstands, consoles, and credenzas. See all her collections on her website, here.
COSENTINO
Headquartered in Spain, Cosentino is a major global brand, well known for supplying beautiful and long lasting quartz based surfacing materials to residential and hospitality designers around the world.
Cosentino’s new DEKTON SLIM product, with its 4MM ultra thin highly compact surface, is perfect for use on both horizontal and vertical surfaces, indoors and outdoors. You will see many beautiful applications of DEKTON SLIM in Seasonal Living Magazine’s Virtual Designer Showhouse. Learn all about DEKTON SLIM here, and why it’s perfect for outdoor surfaces.
THE HOWARD ELLIOTT COLLECTION
Well known to interior designers for their beautiful decorative mirrors, available in a wide range of different custom paint colors and in metals, The Howard Elliott Collection also includes a vast array of furniture, artwork and decorative
accessories. Headquartered in Addison, IL and in business since 2001, this manufacturer is also involved in a wide array of community based initiatives. Read more about The Howard Elliott Collection on their blog, here.
FABRICUT
Fabricut is a global textile brand, beloved by interior designers for their wide range of offerings, including textiles from their own brand, Fabricut, and their sub brands, S. Harris, Vervain, Trend, and Stroheim. They are also the exclusive US distributors for Liberty of London textiles and they own Clarence House. Beyond their gorgeous textile offerings, they also carry furniture, ready made custom window treatments, drapery hardware and a beautiful line of trims.
Get inspired by following them on Instagram, here.
They also have a licensed line of outdoor fabrics with interior designer Vern Yip that is stunning and which can be purchased by your interior designer for you. We’d love to see some of them used on our own outdoor sectionals here at Seasonal Living!
GLOBAL VIEWS
The first sponsor to say, “YES, we’re in”, was Global Views. Their stunning licensed collection with Ashley Childers (shown in the image below), is a runaway hit. You could have your interior designer furnish your entire home, from just Global Views, given their wide selection of stunning products, including accessories, art, lighting, and furniture. See the entire Ashley Childers collection, here.
Read more to find out why co-founder David Gebhart was given the 2018 Arts Award Lifetime Achievement Honor, here.
JAIPUR LIVING
Jaipur Living is a purveyor of gorgeous rugs, throws and pillows, but what really sets this manufacturer apart is its story. Founded by Nand Chaudhary and now run by his two daughters, Jaipur Living’s Foundation has helped to build sustainable communities all across India. By originally employing the *untouchables* – based on a centuries old caste system that included women, the poor and artists, and providing them with a living wage, dignity and secure work, Jaipur has made a difference in hundreds of thousands of lives.
That’s the kind of brand the designers involved in our Virtual Showhouse look forward to supporting with their continuing business in the future, and we hope you will, as well. Read the entire Jaipur Living story, here
MINKA GROUP
Minka Group is well known to brick and mortar retailers across the globe for its gorgeous lighting. They are a major exhibitor at North America’s largest wholesale lighting show, LIGHTOVATION at Dallas Market, and have announced a major showroom expansion there, so if you are an interior designer reading this, don’t miss their newly expanded showroom during the January 2021 LIGHTOVATION show!
Encompassing the sub brands, George Kovacs Lighting, Minka Lavery, The Great Outdoors, Metropolitan Lighting, Ambience and Minka Aire (fans), the Minka Group offers a lighting and/or ceiling fan option for every need and style. They have a beautiful website which we invite you to visit, here.
NATHAN ANTHONY
We are thrilled to have multi award winning fashion forward upholstery brand, Nathan Anthony, as part of #SLDS21. Well known for their unique shapes, often incorporating couture seaming, tufting, and channelling, they are a darling of *in the know* luxury designers everywhere. Owned by the husband and wife team of Tina Nicole and Khai Mai, this dynamic duo manufacturers all their showstopping designs out of their factory in Southern California.
Customization capabilities abound with this brand, and we invite you to have a look at their Instagram feed, here, to get inspired.
NIERMANN WEEKS
This ultra luxury brand/’s products are highly coveted by collectors of the world’s finest works in metal. Bespoke finishes and custom sizes in their lighting line are what they are best known for, but they also carry a wide range of stunning furniture and accessories. (Don’t miss seeing the beautiful metal planter they created for NYC doyenne and designer, Charlotte Moss, on their Instagram feed.)
Do you need a custom finish on open metal shelving for a kitchen, bathroom, laundry room or library? This is the company that can create it for you.
Founded by Joe Niermann and later joined in business by his wife, Eleanor McKay, Niermann Weeks is now in the capable hands of their two daughters, who work with the Annapolis, Maryland based team, everyday.
Learn more about the history of Niermann Weeks, here.
REVEL WOODS
The SELECTOR on Revel Woods’ website makes it easy to specify exactly the type of hardwood flooring that is perfect for your residential, commercial or hospitality projects. If you haven’t tried it out yet, we invite you to click here, to see why interior designers love it so much. Rochester, NY based Revel Woods is also committed to only selling sustainably sourced hardwood flooring, and has gained a well earned reputation amongst interior designers for outstanding customer service.
We recently specified flooring from Revel Woods for our Spring #HPMKT Interhall showroom, (which, unfortunately, got cancelled) and had superior customer service from owner, John Dupra. Thank you, John, for handling our order so expeditiously and making sure we were satisfied with the color. We highly recommend your company to our readers.
SEASONAL LIVING
As the originator of our magazine’s Luxury Virtual Showhouse concept, we are also one of the sponsors, and invite you to browse our digital catalog, here, if you are thinking of purchasing artisan produced, modern indoor/outdoor furniture, lighting, planters and/or decorative accessories for your residential/commercial/hospitality spaces. Headquartered in Austin, TX, we warehouse our inventory right outside of Dallas, and due to planning ahead, are able to ship most of our line immediately.
We are grateful to have won the prestigious #ArtsAward 5 times and to now be in the Arts Award Hall of Fame, the first indoor/outdoor manufacturer to be honored in that way.
If you are in need of modern indoor/outdoor furniture, lighting, or decorative planters and accessories, please contact the participating Virtual Showhouse designer who lives closest to you. Find all of their contact information on our Designer Showhouse Registration Page on the MEET THE DESIGNERS button, here.
SHERWIN WILLIAMS
We are thrilled to have global brand, Sherwin Williams, as our paint sponsor. Their recently introduced *Emerald Designer Edition Color Collections*, containing 200 new paint colors for interior designers, is already being widely adopted by designers who appreciate Sherwin Williams’ quality and customer service.
Sherwin Williams’ Color Snap Visualizer tool, for desktop, IPhone and Android, makes it, literally, a snap to see how any paint color in any of their collections will look in your own home. It’s so much fun to play with and you can save and send your favorites. Try it out now, here.
We appreciate companies like Sherwin Williams who are early adopters in using the tools of technology to spur excellent customer experiences, online.
SIGNATURE KITCHEN SUITE
Known for their uncompromising mission to think through how their appliances can best pay reverence to food, as embodied by their hashtag, #TrueToFood, we are thrilled to have global luxury appliance brand, Signature Kitchen Suite, also known as @SKSAppliances on Instagram, as an inaugural sponsor.
Signature Kitchen Suite has the only 48″ range that has sous vide incorporated into the cooktop, as well as the ability to cook with induction, gas or steam and they’ve also recently introduced a 36″ version, as well.
Their wine storage refrigeration units also contain industry leading benefits for wine connoisseurs, and we invite you to learn more about them, here.
We invite you to explore their LG Styler, too, on the product link featured in our Laundry Room/Decontamination Room in the Virtual Showhouse, when our Virtual Showhouse goes live on Dec. 3rd at 6 pm ET.
You won’t want to miss this innovative appliance, beloved by interior designers, many of them who own it for themselves, that decontaminates anything placed inside of it.
And if you haven’t registered to attend our complimentary, exciting online event launch party on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 6 pm ET, we invite you to do it here, now.
STRESSLESS
Global brand, Stressless, is well known for the longevity of their extremely well made individual recliners, but they also make reclining sofas, office chairs, and now, dining chairs that adjust to your body.
We love the fact that some of the models within their individual recliner collection are also offered in 3 different sizes, so that everyone in the family can achieve maximum comfort.
And some of their new individual recliners now have the ability to press a button and swivel the chair, fully reclined. So perfect for those who crave the experience of total relaxation.
Enjoy this video that showcases the adjustability of their new dining chair collection, here.
For those of you who love the simplicity of Scandivanian design, Stressless’ clean lines, functionality and comfort will wow you.
UNIVERSAL FURNITURE
Universal Furniture is a staple in almost every interior designer’s list of *best brands* to specify for their clients. Widely known for their on trend, affordable and wide ranging selection of furniture styles, they are also known for working with well known interior designers like Contour Interior’s Nina Magon, and celebrities like Miranda Kerr, (who is married to Snapchat founder, Evan Kirstel) to produce bespoke licensed collections that reflect the distinct and unique points of view of those individuals.
Universal’s collection with Miranda Kerr, shown in the image below, is named, *Love, Joy and Bliss*, and every time we look at it, that’s exactly what we feel.
We invite you to explore this collection in more detail, here.
Now that you’ve met our sponsors in more depth, we want to thank all our participating designers and participating sponsors who have written blog posts of their own about Seasonal Living Magazine’s Luxury Virtual Designer Showhouse.
We’d like to share a few with you.
Enjoy this one from sponsor Nathan Anthony Furniture, all about our participating designers, this one by Veronica Solomon of Casa Vilora Interiors all about our participating sponsors, this one by Carla Aston, which gives you a sneak peek into the room she is designing as well as this one by sponsor and participating designer, Robin Baron, which does the same.
In addition enjoy this video by participating designer, Arianne Bellizaire, where she shares with her audience about how excited she is to be participating.
We also want to thank the non participating designers who’ve gone out of their way to support their fellow designers who are participating by writing their own blog posts about the event. Read this one by Janet Lorusso, this one by Judith Wright and this one by Lisa Peck.
Lastly, we want to thank the posts being written by members of the team who have helped us execute this vision. Read this post by Leslie Carothers, CEO of Savour Partnership and this *behind the scenes* post by the woman who rendered and built the exterior of our home, Annilee Waterman, part of Jenna Gaiduseks’s edesigntribe.com team.
The edesigntribe.com team is responsible for all exterior, interior and room rendering for Seasonal Living Magazine’s Luxury Virtual Designer Showhouse.
And, as promised, here’s the post written by Business of Home, that helped us break the story. Thank you, Business of Home.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP US GET THE WORD OUT, TOO, ABOUT THIS *FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD* EVENT?
Here’s 3 things you can do that are easy and quick.
1. Pin any image on this blog post to Pinterest.
2. Share our complimentary registration URL with your online friends, https://bit.ly/DesignerShowhouse and/or this blog post.
3. Share any blog post written by any of our participating designers or sponsors. If you need a list of them, please let us know by emailing us at editor@seasonallviing.com.
This image shows the Virtual Showhouse in the early morning sunlight.
After our VIP launch event, you will be able to experience the Showhouse, anytime you wish, via your computer’s mouse or your Oculus headset, as a shoppable 360 walkaround immersive experience, with augmented reality highlights, within the pages of a Special Edition of Seasonal Living Magazine, where the Virtual Designer Showhouse will live online, forever.
As Steve Jobs famously said, #thinkdifferent. And we are trying.
Thank you to everyone coming along on this exploratory ride with us! We appreciate all of you.
The Team At Seasonal Living
Gary Pettitt, Founder and CEO
www.seasonalliving.com
www.instagram.com/seasonal_living_trd