A Letter from the

President

Fellow Members – It’s been a

busy first half of the year for

IFDA. Our second annual

Take a Seat charity auction

was a huge success,

showcasing the design talent

of many of our interior

design and furniture design

members, while other members volunteered their skills to

organize and promote the event.

What makes IFDA unique among industry organizations is that our

membership body truly crosses all facets of the furnishing and

design worlds. It’s great to watch how different professional skill

sets complement one another when the group comes together.

Getting involved is the best way to maximize your IFDA

membership and share the benefits of the networking and

professional development this organization offers. If you are

interested in becoming more involved, or joining a committee,

please call or email the IFDA office and we’ll get you in touch with

the committee chairs.

All the best for a happy summer.

—Kara Marmion

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Contributors:

Rose Gilbert, FIFDA—Editor

Anna Israel—Editor

Mervyn Kaufman, FIFDA

Su Hilty, FIFDA

Kara Marmion

Maureen Klein

A Letter from the President 1

Coming Events 2

Take a Seat Scores Successful

Encore

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Spotlight on...Chris Madden 3

Members Making News 4

Welcome, New Members! 6

Bigger than the Boomers!

Millennials Change the World

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A Word from Our Sponsors 7

In This Issue:

Coming Events

Cocktails, Conversation & Connections

Mon, July 7, 5:30—7:30 pm

Metro Grill Roof Garden @ Metro Hotel

45 W. 35th Street

Networking—Bring your business cards!

Cash Bar

IFDA Summer Social Thurs, August 7, 6:00—8:00 pm

GE Monogram Design Center 150 East 58th Street, 10th Floor

Cocktails, networking, and fun with the GE chef for Members & Invited

Guests

IFDA Color Trends Event Mon, August 18, 8:30-10:30am

NY NOW @ Jacob Javits Center 655 W. 34th Street

Lower Level, Room 1 A 02-03

Learn the latest trends with DJ Carey, Cottages & Gardens, and

Renee Hytry Derrington, Formica & Laminex

IFDA Trip to MAISON&OBJET PARIS

September 5 - 9 Special prices & amenities await all

travelers. Details to come.

Take a Bow Wed, October 1, 7:30 – 9:30 pm

AXOR Hansgrohe 29 9th Avenue

Celebrating the NY Take a Seat Event & Skyping with 5 other IFDA Chapters during their Take a Seat

Kick Offs Benefiting Habitat for Humanity

Take A Seat Scores Successful Encore

Take a Seat rated a standing ovation when the New York Chapter staged a repeat performance of its hit event at the Room and Board SoHo retail store last month for a crowd of 250-plus enthusiastic attendees.

Twenty-eight one-of-a-kind chairs had been created or up-cycled by designers and artisans for the second iteration of the gala auction that started last year in three chapters– Japan, New York and San Diego. Take a Seat has now doubled its reach with six chapters participating, including Arizona, Florida, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and Northern California.

New York started the “chair roll call” on May 14, with the help of media partner

New York Cottages and Gardens (NYC&G), and editor-in-chief Kendell Cronstrom.

Chairs were on display in Room and Board’s front windows and on the store’s floors for a week. The live auction starred TV personality Libby Langdon as emcee, and auctioneer Harrie E. Copeland III, who knocked down bids totaling more than $9,000 to benefit Habitat for Humanity, NYC and chapter professional development.

With names like Miss Welty, Tango Indigo and Fit to be Tied, each one-off chair had its distinct personality. Fashion designer Betsey Johnson dressed hers in poofy pink. Industrial designer Karim Rashid spent more than eight hours doodling vibrant symbols over one of his iconic OH chairs. NBC’s American Dream Builders designer, Vanessa DeLeon, took light and flight to new heights with her electrified butterfly beauty.

Enthusiastic event chairs were Lisa McMahon, a public relations specialist, and Tamara Stephenson, designer and blogger. New this year is the dedicated website IFDAtakeaseat.com, created as a courtesy by Arizona IFDA member and social media specialist Charlene Kingston. Adrienne Hart, AZ, and Caroline Rogow, FL, are leading the international Take a Seat teams, and Karen Wirrig and Maureen Klein, co-founders along with Yasue Ishikawa, are acting as advisors.

Additional auctions will take place in October, preceded a simultaneous Skype kick-off party on October 1, when all six chapters will toast the nationwide exhibits.

LISA McMAHON PLAYS VANNA WHITE --Take

A Seat Co-Chair shows off the spindle-back

chair created by Sara and Moncef Touijer.

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Spotlight On…CHRIS MADDEN Celebrity designer, TV personality, businesswoman, author of 20 best-selling books, Chris Madden, IFDA, was resting on her laurels when we phoned to SPOTLIGHT her remarkable career -- which includes being

honored in the 2003 CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE.

Chris remembered another IFDA event, a Plaza Hotel luncheon where she was guest speaker. “But I had laryngitis. Couldn’t talk!” Today, she speaks up to praise IFDA: “So generous and supportive…An organization we should all support!” Relaxing in St. Thomas, she and husband Kevin Madden, former House & Garden publisher, have put in “enough 80-hour workweeks,” Chris reported. Now their son Nick has joined their thriving Chris Madden Inc., based in Port Chester, NY.

Galley ‘Slave’ — Some 40 years ago, when the Maddens honeymooned in St. Thomas, Chris’ resume included a stint with Sports Illustrated. That got her a chef’s job on a yacht returning from the America’s Cup -- “Before I wrote my cookbooks!” she laughs. But not before she’d been photographed in Mademoiselle – as a six-year-old. Or won a scholarship to FIT (she still serves on their board).

After a post-grad backpacking journey around the museums of Europe, Chris handled public relations at some of New York’s great publishing houses, including Random House, Putnam, and Farrar Straus and Groux, where she met bold-face names face-to-face: Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe….

Then she was downsized out – “A kick in the pants” that compelled her to launch Chris Madden Inc., in l976. She also launched her writing career with Interior Visions 1988), Rooms with a View, (1992), and Kitchens (1993). The books caught HGTV’s eye and she became one of their first hosts.

Enter Oprah — Interiors by Design ran for eight seasons (1995-2003). Fans included Oprah Winfrey,

and Bingo! In 1997, Chris became the first design correspondent on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also published A Room of Her Own (11 printings, 100,000+ copies sold), featuring the natural habitats of remarkable women. The book led to remarkable friendships….with the late poet Maya Angelou, for one, and with Oprah Winfrey herself.

But back to the business story: an eponymous furniture line with Bassett Furniture Co. launched in 2000, sold $100+ million in two years, and spawned a 12-year partnership with JCPenney, where Chris developed a line that expanded to 2,000 pieces and $2 billion in sales.

Next? Watch for two new product launches at the Fall Market in NY: bedding from Idea Nuova, and bath from Sunham.

Doing Well = Doing Good — Now Chris is heeding her own advice -- “Follow your passion and you bring joy to others.” In 2007, Project Katrina furnished storm-racked homes in Mississippi with her JCPenney products. The next year, she partnered with Blue Star Mothers of America in Operation Cozy Comfort, replacing regulation army blankets with Chris Madden plush blankets from JCPenney.

As she observes. “We who are blessed really can give back.”

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Madden and husband,

Kevin, in Mississippi.

Members Making News

HERE TODAY, GONE TONIGHT: DESIGN ON A DIME—“It took months to plan and only a few hours for all the items to sell at this festive evening,” according to Tamara Matthews-Stephenson, designer/blogger and IFDA VP Communications. “April 24 -- part show house, part charity sale for Housingworks -- came and went in a flash,” she recalls.

Here’s how Design on a Dime, now in its l0th year, raises funds to help people living with or affect by aids: “Designers (60 of us) are given a 10 X 12-ft. space with three walls…and creative license to whip up whatever we desire.” “After our hard work the event is open to the public, Champagne is served, there’s a press hour and pre-shopping VIP time, then before the shopping begins. The velvet rope comes off and the items start flying off the shelves with proceeds going to this very worthwhile cause.” Tamara’s French-flavored beach room may have disappeared like Cinderella at midnight, but you can still see it at nestnestnest.blogspot.com. KIPS BAY SHOW ENCORE AT VILLARD MANSION?— This year “was most definitely the year that put the Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse back on the map of high drama and the utmost in luxury-living,” reports IFDAer/ Showhouse Committee Member Charles Pavarini III.

Between the Villard Mansion venue, the McKim, Mead and White-designed architectural landmark opposite

the Palace Hotel, and the “awe-inspiring” exhibition of design magic inside its “spectacularly proportioned rooms,” Charles said he hopes the 42nd annual show house “has inspired designers, architects and aficionados of great design in a way that will set the bar for residential design of the 21st century.”

Drawing top design talents and some 20,000 visitors, the May-long open house is a powerful fund-raiser for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, whose programs benefit 11,000 youngsters in the Bronx. A Kips Bay Show House veteran himself, Charles is already looking forward to next year and – he hopes – to an encore performance in the Villard’s 19th- century architecture with its “original paneling, Beaux Arts motifs, and properly-trimmed fenestrations.

“If only,” he says, “the rest of us might have the opportunity to flex some design muscle in a Villard House in 2015. Let’s only hope the showcase can return for more of what made this year so memorable.”

SEEDING THE FUTURE OF SURFACE DESIGN— Penny Sikalis, former IFDA President and VP of SURTEX, presents the Grand Prize in the 2014 SURTEX designext Student Design Competition to Tori McLean, a third-year student at the Winchester School of Art, U of Southampton, UK. Now in its 28th year, the competition drew entries from art schools all over the globe. Tori and three

other student winners were invited to exhibit their designs in the Javits Center. The SURTEX show is devoted to selling/licensing original art and design.

MAKING LIGHT OF HARD WORK – Many hands on deck smoothed the sailing for Tamara’s seaside room setting. Helpers having fun: Michael Tavano, MT Custom; Tamara; fellow IFDA members Lisa McMahon; and Maureen Klein

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Members Making News

NEVER MIND Shhhhh! Out to spread the word about the IFDA Educational Foundation, VPs Kim Price, (left) and Susan

Hirsh (right) greet Ross J. Francis (center), Trustee/Chairman of the Friends of the Library at the New York School of Interior Design. They attended a reception in the Mario Buatta Materials Atelier, honoring Billy Kwan, newly named Library Director by NYSID’s President David Sprouls.

TWEETING FOR HER SUPPER?—Eagle-eyed Su Hilty, FIFDA, home from her Alaskan voyage, triumphed in the Architectural Digest's Twitter

hunt during the AD♥200Lex event that sent party-goers sleuthing through showrooms to find -- and Tweet about -- items selected by Editor in Chief Margaret Russell. Su's reward: dinner for two at Jean-Georges; something to, er, tweet home about!

COLORFUL NEW ASSIGNMENT— IFDA’S Office Manager and stellar design student Rose Hittmeyer is summer interning at Silver Sponsor Benjamin Moore’s show room in the D&D Building. She’s on duty Mondays/Wednesdays, then back to her other-day job

as chapter administrator (Tuesdays/Thursdays/Fridays). Rose’s mentor is show room manager Dionne Gadsden. Come August, Rose will be back at FIT for her last semester as an Interior Design major.

ECO-TALK ON EARTH DAY – Mervyn Kaufman, FIFDA, (right) greets Campion Platt, ranked among Architectural Digest’s ‘AD 100’ top interior designers.

DIVE IN, U.S. DESIGNERS & ARCHITECTS! – Win a round trip to ISH in Frankfurt, the world's largest trade show for water and energy in building solutions, courtesy of the new Hansgrohe+Axor Das Design Competition. Hansgrohe’s first-ever design competition deadlines September 2, according to Luky "Jade" Ng, IFDA, Hansgrohe Design Studio Manager. For full details and entry form, visit http://dasdesigncomp.com.

COLOR IN THE CONSULATE— Hasmin Espitato, the Vice Consulate in Florence, admires ‘Light Tribute’ by IFDAer Paul Thomas, now hanging in the US Consulate there.

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Welcome, New Members!

Saly Antoun, FIT student and volunteer at IFDA. Also a member of ASID and IFDA, Saly is serving her second year as head of fund-raising for the FIT ID Club. Her involvement in the interior design field also includes student competitions, and interning for Robin Baron Designs as an assistant to Robin and the design team.

Toni Sabatino, Tony Sabatino Style, Newport, NY. An award-winning kitchen designer who worked with a cabinet manufacturer and then a distributor, Toni built a portfolio of

1,000 kitchens -- everything from floor plans and product specifications to complete delivery and installation -- before launching her own firm. She is a recipient of the Best of Houzz Award for both 2013 and 2014 in the customer satisfaction category, and serves on both the K+BB Editorial Advisory Board and the Thermador Design Council.

Jesse Walp, Buffalo, NY. A design instructor and shop supervisor at Villa Maria College in Buffalo, Jesse is a sculptor and furniture-maker who exhibits both his arts, locally and nationally. He was born in Wellsville, N Y, grew up in Southern Mississippi, and began his design studies at Mississippi State University, and then went on to study Furniture Design and Woodworking at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he earned his MFA degree in Sculpture. After graduate school, he taught and exhibited at various community art centers as a resident artist before accepting his current post in Buffalo.

Bigger Than The Boomers!

Millennials Change the World

Millennials—that generation of adults born after 1982—are carving out a niche of their own in today's home marketplace, according to a recent Better Homes and Gardens readership survey.

Its thought-provoking results were announced by Jill Waage, the magazine's editorial director for home content, at the 2014 International Home Builders Show in Las Vegas and repeated April 28th at an IFDA/New York Chapter event hosted by Country Floors in Manhattan.

"Millennials are swarming into the home marketplace armed with information, ideas, and a passionate desire for personalization," Jill said. "Home builders, designers and remodelers should know that this generation expects you to work with them as collaborators, not just contractors."

*Other Survey Findings:

• Millennials believe owning a home is part of the American dream (79%) and home buying remains a sound investment (77%);

• Lack of a down payment is their greatest obstacle to making that dream a reality (35%);

Those surveyed believe their next home is more likely to be a fixer-upper (23%) than newly built (18%).

• Millennials making home improvements are convinced that now

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is a good time to fund such projects (35%)

• Millennial respondents want homes that are more energy efficient (40%).

• Among the readers surveyed, 45% say they are currently planning or doing some kind of home improvement; of these projects, 75% also involve furniture and accessories, and 34% include altering

the function of at least one room—a nursery, home office or craft/hobby space.

• Six out of 10 of those surveyed are using a tablet or smartphone to access home-related information: ideas, inspiration or actual items.

*How Big is the Millennials' Market Segment? According to a report by the Boston Consulting Group, it currently amounts to some $1.3

trillion in direct annual spending. That report also notes that within the next 15 years Millennials will outnumber Baby Boomers 78 to 56 million.

According to Jill, "This generation wants homes that reflect their individuality, and their sheer size will reshape the home market for decades to come."

AND NOW, A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS: IFDA NY GOLD SPONSORS

AMERICAN HARDWOOD

INFORMATION CENTER: American

Tulipwood is on the fast track in

London!

For London Fashion Week – a striking

construction in natural tulipwood (aka

Poplar) created the backdrop for

clothing brand 1205 Designs. Seems

the “rawness” of the species – its

variable color and exciting grain

patterns – was the perfect match for

this trendy line.

In the Phoenix Brewery Office

Complex -- an impressive sculpture-like

enclosure of stained tulipwood

disguises an unsightly staircase, and

significantly improves the acoustics in

this former west London warehouse.

Tulipwood was chosen for its physical

characteristics and affordability.

At the V & A -- located in the John

Madejski Gardens at London’s Victoria

and Albert Museum, Infinity Bench

demonstrates the potential of

thermally modified tulipwood -- and

other American hardwood species -- in

outdoor applications. Perfect for

exterior use, “modified” tulipwood

limits moisture absorption and resists

decay, while exhibiting dimensional

stability.

HUNTER DOUGLAS: New Frontiers

in Light Control.

Light control tops almost everyone’s

list when it comes to window dressings,

and Hunter Douglas Silhouette®

window shadings take that concept to

the next level. Its soft fabric vanes,

floating between two sheers, transform

incoming light from harsh and

unyielding to gentle and diffused for an

improved ambience and enhanced light

control.

The new Silhouette® A Deux™ dual

roller system combines light-filtering

and room-darkening capabilities in one

window shading, in one headrail.

Among other enhancements, the

collection now offers 287 SKUs of

luxurious fabrics from which to select,

including four new choices:

Myst™: A sophisticated metallic-

accented vane with a colored face

sheer brings shimmer and surprise to

Alustra® Silhouette window shadings;

French Linen: Also exclusively featured in The Alustra Collection,

Tulipwood in the Phoenix Brewery Office

Silhouette® A Deux™ in the Bedroom

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French Linen has a casual face sheer

inspired by the look of refined linen;

Mystere™: A richly textured

horizontal vane fabric and

coordinating colored face sheer bring

beautiful light-diffusion to rooms;

Monaco™: A distinct, cross-

textured fabric vane sports

wonderfully colored front sheers for

added vibrancy at the window.

MOEN, INC. Introduces the New Align

Faucet Suite,

including two single-control faucets, a

two-handle version, matching tub and

shower trim, and matching accessories

and grab bars. There is a single-

control that is only 4.8” tall (5.8”

handle up) to accommodate the

A117.1 rules for faucet height with

wall-mount medicine cabinets and

mirrors. The Align is shipping now.

NY NOW Debuts “Maker Project” at

Summer Market. A new three-

pronged initiative, connected with the

nation’s growing “Maker Movement,”

will debut at NY NOW, August 16-20,

at New York’s Javits Center. NY

NOW’s “Maker Project” will include

showcases of individual makers and

products, a four-part seminar program

addressing the movement’s evolution,

impact and opportunities and

exclusive free access to a special “NYC

Makers: The MAD Biennial” exhibit at

MAD Museum.

Elements of the “Maker Project”

include:

Exhibits: A new Etsy Wholesale

pavilion, a Grommet Wholesale

showcase, two maker-focused

collectives – American Design Club and

JOIN Seattle – and two existing NY

NOW ‘incubator’ showcases;

Education: Four Maker-focused

seminars: “Modern-Day Matchmaking:

Technology & Tools for the 21st

Century”; “Knock-Out Knock-Offs:

Design Integrity in the Internet”; “The

Maker Movement – Forging A New

Paradigm,” and “Entrepreneurship &

Lessons Learned from the Start-Up

Trenches;”

Events: Free admission to “NYC

Makers: The MAD Biennial,” on view at

MAD, as well as a 20 percent discount

on full-priced items at The Store at

MAD upon presentation of a Summer

Market badge.

Information and registration is

available online at nynow.com.

STACY GARCIA, INC. – Showing up at

HD Expo (Hospitality Design) in Las

Vegas last month, Stacy Garcia’s

product launches and previews

included: The Foundry for Bernhardt

Hospitality, Hudson & Sutton

Collections for Hospitality Designs, The

Curator for Brintons, Connoisseur for

Durkan, Fizz for Lexmark , and more!

In honor of the newest collaborations,

they served up Morning Mimosas,

threw a Pink Champagne Party, and

dished out coffee and Kahlua. A Stay

Inspired scavenger hunt led tour

attendees through each of the new

products. Players who visited all of the

Stacy Garcia partners were entered to

win a personalized Louis Vuitton Tote!

See the winner and more details from

the show on the Stacy Garcia blog, Life

-Styled.net!

The Align Faucet Suite

NY NOW’s Maker Movement

Following Stacy Garcia’s Scavenger Hunt

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IFDA NY SILVER SPONSORS

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At Galerie Protégé: Opening July 12, through August 15: The Annual: Curated by Jaclyn Acker. Works by the staff and family of Chelsea Frames and Galerie Protégé

Reception : July 12th 6-8pm. Artists:

Terri Beckles, Alcides Rivas, Allison Henri, Samuel Fuentes, Brigitte Caramanna, Nicole Sands, Robert Dimin, Justine Hill, Ethan Millspaugh, Gloria Godall Luch.

CLIFF YOUNG, LTD. -- The brand-new

Cliff Young Signature Rug Collection is

in! The refreshingly organic,

contemporary collection was designed

by Cliff Young Ltd. and made by hand

in Nepal, featuring an incredible array

of patterns, textures, colors and

techniques. Like all the Cliff Young

signature pieces, the rug collection is

fully customizable.

The inspiration for the rug collection

has come from art, nature, organic

patterns and dynamic visuals that

surround us, and the fibers, colors and

techniques used are enhancing that.

Wool, silk, linen, and aloe in myriad of

colors are playing beautifully with each

design in telling a story.

See more about Cliff Young Signature

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KRAVET INC. -- Diane von Furstenberg Designs for Kravet Collections.

Kravet announces the launch of a new

collection of home fabrics and

trimmings from the legendary designer

Diane Von Furstenberg.

The line showcases her renowned

aesthetic and sense of print and color,

as seen in many of her iconic patterns.

Von Furstenberg effortlessly brings

high fashion into the home with prints,

wovens and draperies, and custom

trimmings designed to accent the

fabrics with an exotic edge. The

collection has a strong foundation in

black-and-white with pops of color,

and incorporates the iconic designer’s

signature bold animal prints, such as

Spotted Cat and Funky Zebra.

Geometric and abstract prints are also

featured, for an eclectic blend

designed to be mixed and matched.

Cliff Young’s Rug Primer

Alcides Rivas, Untitled, 2012

Diane von Furstenberg for Kravet Collections

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