Keynote Address - Bunny Williams

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Bunny Williams:Keynote Address

Design BloggersConference

February 26, 2015

LIFELONG PASSION FOR DECORATING

Design and Living Well is in my DNA

Monticello - Charlottesville, VA

The Greenbrier – White Sulphur Springs, WV

MY MENTORSAnd What I Learned From

STAIR & CO.My responsibilities included writing out descriptions for the tags for every shipment that came in and matching them up to the invoices.

I learned to identify Hepplewhite, Chippendale, and Adam furniture; to tell the difference between Staffordshire and Worcester porcelains; to appreciate the characteristics of mahogany, satin wood, and burled walnut.

PARISH-HADLEY INC.

The only person I really wanted to work for was Mrs. Parish. So one day, I decided to walk up the street and see if there was an opening . . . There is no question that you couldn’t have a better education. You can’t buy that kind of education.

Being between Mrs. Parish and Albert wasn’t always easy, yet the genius of the company was the two of them together . . . I think that left on their own, they were not as good as the sum of the two.

Mrs. Parish was a master at furniture arrangement. She could put more

furniture in a room than anyone I had every seen. She was a completely

instinctive designer.

Albert’s own rooms were well edited and special because of the way he

could mix old and new things to create stunning combinations.

BREAKING AWAYAnd Starting My Own

Business

My office reflects my ethos, and I am always pleased when new clients get it.

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Organizing A Design Project

MY HOMESNew York City, Falls Village CT & Punta Cana

BUNNY WILLIAMS INC.Design Projects

BRANCHING OUTBecoming a Brand

www.treillageonline.com

www.bunnywilliamshome.com

LICENSED COLLECTIONS

Collection 1 launched Fall 2014 Collection 2 to launch May 2015

Collection 1, 2013

Fall 2014

Collection 1, 2014

Collection 2, 2015

3 Collections, 2012 -present

Bunny Williams for

Late Summer 2015

MORE. . .

Southern Living Idea House, Opening June 2015

86New York Historical Society, 2014

87Ronald McDonald House of LI, 2014

Kips Bay Designer Show House, 2013

Spring 2015

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