What an exciting moment! We are thrilled to announce the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners [and an honorable mention] in our Seasonal Living Design Challenge, a rendering design contest held in collaboration with the eDesignTribe.
What a difficult job it was for us to judge the 16 entries who spent many, many hours going over every aspect of every entry and giving points for how well each entry adhered to each contest rule, and giving extra points to those who adhered to each rule AND who went above and beyond.
Without further ado, meet the winners!
The overall first-place winner is interior designer Rebekah Correll, principal of Transparent Interiors, with her gorgeous entry that perfectly expresses the indoor/outdoor essence of our brand.
Rebekah: Many well-deserved congratulations! You’ve won our VIP trip to #Spring2022 High Point Market [ #HPMKT ] in High Point, North Carolina, and a US $500.00 gift card!
Rebekah wrote an exceptional blog post, *Embracing Seasonal Traditions*, which shared her design thought process and which included embedded 3D walk-arounds of her #SLDesignChallenge entries.
Read her post by clicking on this link: https://transparentinteriors.com/blog/embracing-seasonal-transitions.
Rebekah travels around the world full time with her husband and eDesign gives her the opportunity to work with clients anywhere they are located. She’s a very talented interior designer and we invite you to follow her on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/transparentinteriors .
This is another view of the *Wellness Terrace* Rebekah created for the #SLDesignChallenge, and you’ll be seeing more of her work in upcoming issues of Seasonal Living Magazine and on our social channels.
We could definitely envision ourselves enjoying that outdoor bathing experience, could you?
Our second-place winner is interior architect, Elaine Chan, principal and creative director of C Mod Interiors.
Elaine: Congratulations! You’ve won our $500.00 Amazon gift card!
Elaine’s past work as a creative curator for the Giorgio Armani brand is evident throughout her entries. Like Mr. Armani’s clothes, her entries are layered, tailored, elegant and linear. Elaine founded C Mod Interiors in 2014 to offer online design to residential clients and we invite you to visit her website by clicking this link:
https://www.cmodinteriors.com
and to follow her on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/cmodinteriors.
Elaine’s blog post about her entry is an example of how she went *above and beyond* and we invite you to read it here: https://www.cmodinteriors.com/post/let-s-the-challenge-begin
Here’s another view of Elaine’s work, this time showcasing two different models of our FIZZ Collection indoor | outdoor sectionals.
Our third-place winner is interior designer, Gloribell Lebron. Gloribel is the principal of G. Lebron Interiors/
Gloribell: Congratulations! You’ve won our $250.00 Amazon gift card.
Gloribell’s entry showcases the MEDITATION dining table from our Provenance Signature Collection by Laura Muller, beautifully, along with the accompanying bench, shown on the left wall.
See this Instagram reel Gloribell created, showcasing her entry and follow her on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CYCap7zFfPQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Gloribell also created a vertical view of this rendering, from a different angle, shown below.
As you may recall, Gloribell, who is fluent in both Spanish and English, was one of the 11 designers chosen to participate in Seasonal Living Magazine’s Virtual Designer Showhouse.
Gloribell’s outstanding ability to layer neutral textures to create livable indoor | outdoor environments is evident in the design work shown on her website, which we invite you to visit by clicking here:
https://www.glebroninteriors.com
Congratulations, Rebekah, Elaine and Gloribell, on being the winners of our #SLDesignChallenge!
And now, we’d like to introduce the winner of our Honorable Mention, Canada’s Amanda Vernon, principal of Grit Interiors.
Amanda: Thank you for going above and beyond in your use of social media to support your entry in our contest. We so appreciate your efforts and look forward to showcasing your work on our website and on our social channels.
See this stunning Instagram reel Amanda created to support her entry.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CYmKMvwh4k7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
We invite you to visit Amanda’s website on this link:
https://www.gritinteriors.ca
For the #SLDesignChallenge, we collaborated with Jenna Gaidusek, founder of the eDesignTribe rendering platform. Jenna and her team were also our rendering collaborators for Seasonal Living Magazine’s Virtual Designer Showhouse.
Jenna, thank you for another excellent collaboration experience. We appreciate your efforts to make our rendering design challenge as exciting and engaging as it was for the participants.
Want to learn even more about the Seasonal Living Design Challenge? You can see the blog post created by the eDesignTribe by clicking below:
https://www.edesigntribe.com/featured-designer-blogs/sldc
As mentioned above, the judging process was a lengthy one as so many of the entries were very close in assigned points.
For those of you reading this that may not be as familiar with the rules for the #SLDesignChallenge, the judging wasn’t based solely on the quality of the renderings or the beauty of the design, but on many other factors, too.
The rules were all explained here, for those that chose to sign up to participate.
CEO, Gary Pettit, has this message for everyone who participated, with a special thank you to his fellow judges, Jenna Gaidusek and Laura Muller, the designer of our Provenance Signature Collection.
Laura’s indoor | outdoor Provenance Signature Collection for us, utilized extensively in the renderings by the participants in the Seasonal Living Design Challenge, has been so well received that it sold out at Fall 2021 #HPMKT.
Her design for our TRANQUILITY round cocktail table helped us win our 6th ARTS award last month at the 32nd annual #ARTSawards ceremony which we wrote about, here:
https://www.seasonalliving.com/2022/01/exciting-news-we-won-the-arts-award/
Laura recently wrote two blog posts, one about her collection, and one about her podcast interview with Gary Pettitt, where they were interviewed by Benno Duenkelsbuehler, owner of the Third Growth Option podcast, about their collaboration.
Read her blog post about her collection for us here:
https://fourpointdesignbuild.com/seasonal-living-launches-new-signature-collection/
And read her post about the podcast interview here:
https://fourpointdesignbuild.com/so-you-want-to-design-products/
Laura, thank you for everything. The amount of time you invested in helping us judge this close contest is so appreciated.
Lastly, we invite you to meet and follow all of the participants in our Seasonal Living Design Challenge on Instagram, by searching the hashtag: #SLDesignChallenge.
Once again, congratulations to our winners!
We look forward to celebrating Rebekah and our other winners at the upcoming Spring2022 #HPMKT with a very special event and hope you will join us. Stay tuned for details.
One last time: thank you to all who participated. You WOWED us, and we couldn’t be more impressed with the quality of your work and the effort you made.
With genuine thanks.
The Team At Seasonal Living
Gary Pettitt, CEO and Founder
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