Bailey Li Interiors

@interiorista_baileyli
designedbybaileyli.com

Orange, NJ

Discipline: Interior Design
Region: United States - Mid Atlantic

Bailey Li is a Decorative Artist, Interior decorator, and Designer/Curator of insanely stylish spaces. Bailey discovered her passion for decorating homes while working as a successful Real Estate agent in 2003. Drawn to the architecture & character of the homes in the historical districts of So.Orange and maplewood NJ she began providing home staging services to homeowners that were looking to sell. In order to appeal to the influx of professionals from NYC she mastered the skill of combining antiques and rare vintage pieces with modern colors, elements & textures. This resulted in stylishly blended interiors that made the homes sell almost immediately. Naturally once their homes sold, her clients were calling her to decorate their new homes as well. She realized she had a gift, a natural talent to create spaces that made the inhabitants feel amazing. She began to focus more on decorating and designing. It was then that she was able to truly express her full creative vision and watch it translate into stunning environments. She is known for her ability to select unique antique/vintage pieces and combine them with artistic and modern elements resulting in beautiful, functional, original spaces.

Beth Diana Smith

@bethdianasmith
www.bethdianasmith.com

New York/New Jersey

Discipline: Interior Design
Region: United States - Mid Atlantic

Beth Diana Smith is the CEO and Principal Designer of Beth Diana Smith Interior Design, an interior design firm that marries visual interest and livability, with skillful curations of art, pattern, and color. Beth has been featured on NBC and HGTV, and in various outlets including House Beautiful, Elle Decor, and the Business of Home.

Cheryl Riley

@cherylrriley
www.cherylrriley.com

Jersey City, NJ

Discipline: Fine Art
Region: United States - Mid Atlantic

Cheryl R. Riley's art is concerned with similarities between seemingly disparate cultures through the lens of memory, history, iconography, rituals, attire, implements and symbols.  She is currently working on two sculpture series dealing with aspiration, transcendence, staging and representation. 

Cheryl's involvement with the art world is wide-ranging and long-standing.  Her public art projects are installed in San Francisco, Sacramento, Atlanta and New York.  

With artworks in the collections of connoisseurs as well as museums, including the Smithsonian and SFMoMA, she is a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Individual Artist and Vermont Studio Center Civil Society Institute Fellowship Residency grant recipient.

Cheryl teaches and lectures at top art and design schools nationally. She served on the executive committees of museum and non-profit boards, as well as stints with grant-maker selection committees. 

She has written articles about artists of the African Diaspora and curates collections for private individuals and corporations while conducting periodic lectures on THE ART OF ART COLLECTING and THE ART OF BUSINESS.

Halden Interiors

@haldeninteriors
www.haldeninteriors.com

New York/New Jersey, USA

Discipline: Interior Design
Region: United States - Mid Atlantic

Halden Interiors has earned a name for itself as one of New York’s stand-out, full-service design firms.

Every detail curated at Halden begins from a place of deep exploration. The ability to interpret our clients’ needs and expectations is the cornerstone of our interior design philosophy.

At Halden we are unapologetically client-centric. We achieve design excellence because we care about individualism, that’s why our design process begins by listening and then we keep listening.

In the hands of principal designer, Kesha Franklin, residential and hospitality spaces are transformed into stylish and well-appointed environments. Each space is expertly refined and functional.

Our aim is to design luxury interiors with personality-stimulate the senses, evoke energy, inspiration and a feeling of total well-being.

Every step we take with you, through the design-research process, from curating the design concept and architectural detailing to furniture and art selections, is about visually articulating shared ideas and creating a stimulating living environment that you love being in and can retreat to.

Past commissions include, loft apartments, luxury residences, gut renovations, brownstones, holiday homes and city pied-a-terres.

Johanna Howard

@johannahowardhome
www.johannahoward.com

Montclair, NJ

Discipline: Textiles
Region: United States - Mid Atlantic

Johanna Howard Home and Accessories is a line of Sustainable Luxury Alpaca home décor products featuring the finest alpaca wool fiber.  We combine a modern high design Scandinavian/American aesthetic with the ancient textile traditions of Peru. We do not believe that luxury goods have to be produced in a way that is exploitative of the environment or the people who create them, or that consumers have to sacrifice quality for sustainability.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Johanna Howard grew up in a culture that prizes high design and aesthetics.  Her mother owned a small custom-clothing atelier and combined impeccable craftsmanship with a unique sensibility.   “My mom didn’t knit snowflakes and reindeer. Her bold designs broke with convention and she used innovative colors and patterns.”  And this marriage of artisan quality and unique design continues to define Johanna’s look – inspiring such items as the innovative Beast Pillows.

Johanna moved to the U.S., and developed her design skills in the fashion capitals of Los Angeles and New York as a succesful women’s clothing designer.  But on a trip to an alpaca farm with her daughter, inspiration struck. She was immediately taken with the luxurious feel of the alpaca wool and also the fact that it was a far better environmental alternative to cashmere.  As a designer, mother, and entrepreneur she immediately recognized the fantastic opportunity before her. Within months, she was in Peru meeting people who are continuing a 6,000 year-old tradition of knitting and weaving with alpaca.  “Taking the rich traditions of Peruvian artisan knitters and weavers and blending it with my love and passion for colors and textiles is what makes what we do so special.”

“We create lasting, high-end, quality products that have a positive impact on the world we are leaving to our children as well as the homes in which we are raising them.”  Alpaca farming is done in harmony with the environment and does not destroy grasslands and create deserts like cashmere production. And alpaca wool is lightweight, water repellant, warmer than wool, and hypoallergenic.  Joining this “treasure of the Andes” with gorgeous designs that enhance any home, and collaborating with fair trade and women-owned studios in Peru, we are able to create an unparalleled product which is the essence of Sustainable Luxury (TM).

Lisa Hunt

@creativehunt
www.lisahuntcreative.com

Maplewood, NJ

Discipline: Fine Art
Region: United States - Mid Atlantic

Lisa Hunt is a Maplewood, New Jersey-based artist and designer. Her screen printed and collaged works on paper and panel explore the spatial and meditative relationships found within repeat patterns. Through the use of graphic shapes and symbols, Hunt’s work draws inspiration from a broad range of influences including West African textiles, African American quilt-making, typography and the Art Deco movement. Hunt’s work draws a connection to adornment throughout history while commenting on contemporary materialism and value by accenting her primarily neutral palette with gold leaf.

In 2021, Lisa Hunt will be a founding fellow at the New Hope Colony Artist Residency, and her work will be featured at International Print Center New York and the Trout Museum. Previously, Hunt’s pieces have been exhibited at the Texas Contemporary Art Fair and have appeared in Elle Decor, Interior Design, and Luxe Interiors + Design. Hunt is a founding member of the Black Artists + Designers Guild and is represented by Uprise Art and Stella Ripley Contemporary.

Studio Cooke John

Nina is available for speaking engagements; inquire below.

@ninacookejohn
www.cookejohn.com

New York, NY; Montclair, NJ

Discipline: Architecture, Interior Design
Region: United States - New York

Studio Cooke John is a New York-based design studio with a strong focus on high-impact, residential architecture, as well as design for international cultural institutions.