Tag: Business of Luxury Design

BOLD Summit Attendee, Lane McNab of Lane McNab Interiors

Lane began her adult life as a singer, graduating with advanced degrees in vocal performance and then spending several years as a highly-acclaimed soprano in leading roles throughout the Bay Area. After taking time off from singing to manage the demands of a growing family, Lane began to focus entirely on her other passion: designing interiors.

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Lane apprenticed on numerous projects with a local design and construction firm as a designer and assistant project manager before founding her own firm in 2012. Custom and semi-custom pieces are a feature of many of Lane’s designs and she works with local artisans to create one-of-a-kind pieces for clients throughout the Bay Area.

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Lane McNab Interiors has developed a tried and true system for design implementation with an emphasis on a stress-free, detailed execution and client experience. A deep devotion to the transformative power of beauty in people’s lives, once through music and now through design connects Lane’s passions.

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Lisa Davenport of Lisa Davenport Designs

Lisa Davenport, of Lisa Davenport Designs, entered the world of interior design in a less-than-conventional way. Upon completing a degree in Commercial Design, Lisa was in search of a career she could be passionate about.

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Some time later, Lisa returned to Paier College of Art and studied interior design, refining her signature hand-rendering technique. Since then, Lisa has worked with clients in the interior design industry for over twenty years, and still continues to find the magic in her job every day.

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Although she may have an easygoing personality, Lisa’s biggest pet peeve is lack of attention to detail. Un-fluffed pillows quake with fear when she enters a room. A crooked picture frame will stop her in her tracks.

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Lisa finds that the best part of working with clients is the relationships she builds with them. Getting to know her clients on a personal level helps Lisa cater to their style so that their home feels like an extension of themselves. When you talk, Lisa listens.

Becoming Luxury and the Birth of the BOLD Summit

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Becoming a luxury interior design firm is not about putting on a facade or charging exorbitant fees. It is about functioning on such a high level that you are able to go beyond the ordinary and sufficient. It is about elevating the focus from mere necessity to that of delight and inspiration. Becoming a luxury design firm is hard-won and not for the faint of heart, because one must become luxury from the inside out.

There are a few steps to creating that special luxury touch and they may not all be apparent to you from the beginning. Ask yourself how you can go the extra step and make each experience memorable and uniquely of your firm. But remember, you don’t have to be alone on this journey!

I work with you to plot out the course in a very tangible way so that you, first of all, have clarity. And I find that — as simple as that sounds — it’s actually hard to come by. It requires outside input and it’s helpful when it comes from your peers and people that have already done it before and are doing it successfully in the current environment.

I developed the Business of Luxury Design Summit to create a sanctuary. Up until the BOLD Summit there was no place to brainstorm and collaborate with peers and get all kinds of information from experts that can really address those needs on your level.

It’s very much a holistic process. Bringing in all of these various experts to nourish this design community seemed right on target with what my mission is and has been for the last decade: to empower the designer and advance this industry.

BOLD Summit Attendee, Corinne Brown of The Brown Design Group

Corinne Brown is known for creating warm, inviting and personal homes. Clients describe her as uniquely intuitive and a quick study. As the owner and Principal Designer of The Brown Design Group, Corinne has found a way to combine her passion for design with a mountain lifestyle.

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She now works from The Big Red Building, a spectacular design studio which she designed and built to house the largest sample library within a hundred mile radius. Her keen eye, experience and ability to derive inspiration from the mountain lifestyle provides a special sense for what is important to her exclusive clientele.

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Corinne and her team at The Brown Design Group have created an impressive portfolio of work, including outstanding mountain vacation home interior design, but she is most proud of the relationships that have been built with their clients, which continue through the years. “I think that we connect because we can provide designs that make them feel most comfortable and happy in real life. I find inspiration in their very personal desire to create a home”.

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Nar Bustamante of Nar Fine Carpentry

Nar Bustamante established himself with his wife of 20 years and two children in the Sacramento area in 1999. Born in Mexico City and raised in the Bay Area, Nar began working on homes during his summers at age 14. By age 24, Nar had founded his first construction company in Santa Fe, New Mexico building many new luxury green alternative homes.

 

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Homes crafted with adobe, straw bale, pumice crete, radiant heat, passive solar and many more alternative methods and materials. Through the years, Nar built a passion for quality craftsmanship and innovative design, bringing to the Sacramento area a new sense of style and design for the home connoisseur.

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Nar has worked on kitchens and baths, full-home remodels, commercial spaces and showrooms, and multi-unit dwellings. As a nationally awarded designer, Nar is passionate about Sacramento, the people and the opportunity to serve you!

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Lisa Staprans of Staprans Designs

Lisa Staprans has over twenty–five years of interior design experience, having worked on high profile award winning residential and commercial projects around the country. Based in bucolic Portola Valley, California, Lisa gains inspiration from the beauty of nature that surrounds her as well as the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley.


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Lisa honors the “soul of design” through all of her projects. She believes that artistically driven and emotionally connective interiors have the ability to transform ones entire state of being.

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She embraces an ethos of social and fair trade responsibility, seeking out craftspeople and manufacturers who share the same philosophy. Her travels throughout the world have led to collaborations with indigenous artisans that can be seen not only in Lisa’s interiors but also in the beautiful things created and procured from her travels available for sale on One King’s Lane and Chairish.

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Phil Norman of Norman Design Group

Phil Norman is design director and creative founder of Norman Design group located in California. In true entrepreneurial spirit, after graduating from the College of Design at Iowa State with a dream of creating a design firm made up of exceptional people doing extraordinary things, Phil made his big journey across the country to the west coast, where he knew no one.

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In the twenty years since then, he has put together an incredible design studio where his team members expertly collaborate in a way that genuinely benefits the client. Phil’s passion for Interior design is as strong today as it has ever been, which is evident in his beautiful, innovative, and versatile designs.

POWDER-ROOMPhil is a professional member of ASID and is certified with the NCIDQ.

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What are Attendees Saying About BOLD Summit?

Have you been wondering what designers who have actually attended BOLD Summit have to say about their experience? In this short and sweet video a few of last year’s attendees share their thoughts with us, post summit. Take a look!

If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We are more than happy to chat with you for a bit. Our phone number here in the office is 503-208-2757.

 

The BOLD Summit is the MOST INTENSE 2 Days of Business Development and Collaboration in the Industry!

EFFICIENCY | STRATEGY | FINANCE | GROWTH

The busier you are, the more you NEED to stop for two days and get strategic and streamlined!

We are so excited to be able to offer you the opportunity to learn from and meet with all of these incredible powerhouses. Not only will you have the benefit of hearing each of these industry experts speak, but many will be hosting small group, round-table discussions and breakout groups. Can you imagine what a difference it will make for your business to have personalized advice and instruction from these wise and successful trail blazers? Editors from Interiors Magazine and Traditional Home will even be doing personal portfolio reviews. You will not see these design community luminaries like this anywhere but the BOLD Summit!

BOLD Summit 2015 Presenters

The BOLD Summit is the most intense 2 days of business development and collaboration in the industry.