Award Winning Designs

Beasley & Henley Interior Design opened its doors in 1993 and has since grown into one of the most innovative and respected design firms in the country. Their fresh and very artistic approach to interior design is seen in the fine Private Residences and Luxury Models they design. With the most exquisite furnishings and interior detailing complementing their client’s lifestyles and discriminating tastes, Beasley & Henley’s masterful combinations of textures, colors and details touch emotions and create the unexpected.

The experienced Beasley & Henley design team is distinguished by its excellent reputation, creativity and client focus, resulting in award-winning and intriguing settings. Offering services from architectural detailing to the selection of magnificent interior finishes and furnishings, Beasley & Henley works with renowned Architects, Builders and Private Clients across the country to create exclusive interiors.

Have a Seat!

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Just looking around and see lots of great new chairs.  Some of these are new introductions at Neocon, the always interesting June market that takes place in Chicago.

 This fun TWIST chair is designed by Stefan Heiliger and offered through Sandler Seating.  It has a foam shell and inner supporting steel frame sitting stylishly on a flat cross base.

Leave it to the talented Karim Rashid to wow us! His new Chakra chair, available in a variety of colors, is offered through Raynor Contract.   

Then, totally changing course, check out these great Versace chairs. Usually Versace hits me as over-the-top and depending how you use these chairs, they can still fit into that category. If they are used with care, I think they can make a great statement!

This is the Salome chair in metallic leather.

I also love it in this striking black and white fabric.

And of course, you can’t have Versace without having a Queen!  This is the glamourous and tasteful Queen Privilege Chair.

A bit more sedate, but still in shining metallic is this gorgeous chair by Modani.  Its timeless solid wood frame  and hand carved flowers give it a traditional look while its metallic finish and faux crocodile leather lining creates a beautiful look for a contemporary interior.

Back at the office, this next fun office chair has a few creators.  The Very Task chair is by Michael Welsh and Nicolai Czumaj-Bront’s from Haworth. The creative back is screen-printed in custom colors on nylon mesh by NoPattern Studio’s founder, Chuck Anderson.

Love this chair!  The Perillo is a contemporary lounge chair by designer Martin Ballendat, and is part of the always creative line-up by Dauphin. It is made of one continuous sheet of material, thermoplastic and polished chrome.  One of my favorite things about this chair ? It is reportedly 99.9% recyclable!

How DO You Do That? Making a small space larger.

People are always asking us “How do you do that?”

They often say “I would never have thought of that!” 

Designers are creative and sometimes crazy people, but a lot of times there is a method to our madness.  In our latest “How DO You Do That?” we are sharing designer secrets, interior design knowledge and do-it-yourself tricks to make things easier when you are trying to put your own room together.

We made this small, typical apartment space larger with just a few tricks of the trade!  In this small space you can see how we used color to warm up the room, contrast and friction to make things more intersting and open,  different types of artwork to solve different space problems, varying wood tones, Lucite chairs to fix a tiny dining room and modern track lighting for flexibilty and to save space.

 

You can read the full article at http://blog.beasleyandhenley.com

Exclusive and Gorgeous – the HYDE Collection!

I am always on the lookout for great designs and when they are paired with great marketing, forget it! I melt. That is precisely what happened with Mansour Modern’s push for their exclusive HYDE collection. I saw it and couldn’t resist!

The incredible creations of Mansour Modern are a delight to the senses. This high-end rug manufacturer offers not just quality, but trendsetting rugs that are textural and visceral, sophisticated and chic.

Taking their most popular designs Mansour translates them onto natural cow hide, hence the HYDE collection. 

The rugs are custom sized and created by sewing individual hide-squares to develop the beautiful designs.  One of my favorites is the gorgeous Greek Key rug. 

It could be the reminiscences of my youthful escapades in sunny Greece, but more likely I am transfixed by the easy flow of this interpretive design.  The cow hide texture is supple and natural with full-on brilliant Aegean blue sparkling throughout this beautiful pattern.

I loved the design so much I called the creative mind behind it all, Ben Soleimani. 

If you have read this blog before, you know I can’t get enough of talking with imaginative people and Ben is definitely one of them!  Gracious and soft spoken, he is also passionate and driven, which makes him such a force in competitive world of rugs and carpeting.

“I like to be a trendsetter but it takes hard work”, laughs 38- year-old Soleimani.

In fact, he says he finds Color and Design relatively easy.  It is creating new textures and finding new materials that pose the most challenges. And I suppose, requires the most creativity, an area inwhich he obviously excels.

Says Soleimani “I can see 400 years of techniques, colors and materials in the rugs I look at today. There is lots of history.”

And he should know.  Ben Soleimani has been in the rug business is entire life – he is part of the family that owns the generations old Mansour Rugs.

In his Hyde collection, Soleimani sees the future.  The materials are full of life and movement. 

The  dyes, which come from all over the world, are rich and varied, and the skillful application of all them to his artful designs make this collection a success.

He believes simply that, “Good things… you have to work for them.  When you do, you make a difference.”

With Mansour Modern, he certainly has!

 

Interior Designers Yell - LOOK AT ME!!!

Based on a huge survey of Interior Designers and Design Firms by Interior Design Magazine, a respected design trade magazine, a lot of designers should be shouting:

LOOK AT ME!

Interior Designers spec 83% of materials specifications for jobs vs 16% by architectural firms.

$2.05 million is the average dollar value of products an interior design firm specifies a year.  These products include building products, paint, ceilings, doors, windows, appliances, cabinetry, flooring, lighting, textiles, surfacing, furniture, kitchen bath products, etc

How Do You Want to Pay for That?

66%  of firms charge hourly rates
43%  of firms charge using mixed fees, meaning an hourly rate and mark-up combination

What are an Interior Designer’s Top 3 Favorite things to do?
34% Meet with Clients!
19% Drawing and/or Designing
15% Specing product

Can You Multi Task?

86 is the average number of projects that an Interior Design firm works on in a year
23 is the average number of projects that Residential-only firms works on in a year

Largest Category of work for Interior Design Firms:

#1 Office
#2 Residential
#3 Hospitals

The Top 3 Business Issues Faced by Interior Design firms are:

#1 Economic downturn
#2  Fee appropriateness
#3  Increased client demands

“We are a service business, and like anyone else, reducing fees or selling product at cost would put us out of business. We won’t be there for our clients in the future.” Troy Beasley, Design Principal, Beasley & Henley Interior Design

The Top 4 Client Issues Faced by Interior Design Firms are: 

 #1 Acquiring Clients
#2 Getting clients to understand the value of design
#3  Getting clients to pay for what the work is worth
#4  Getting clients to take design risks

We’re on a Mission!

80% of designers feel that they have a mission to further design “We always strive to redesign, reinvent and rethink what we do”

“Our job is to create something that our clients couldn’t have imagined themselves.  Our mission is to elevate their knowledge and expectations of what good design is all about.” Troy Beasley, Design Principal, Beasley & Henley Interior Design

 Link to the full survey:   http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6724247.html