Country Floors and ELLE DECOR Tile Design Winner Announced!
What an amazing evening!!! We have enjoyed working with ELLE DECOR's Market Editor Carisha Swanson and Interior Designer Antonino Buzzetta over the past 6 weeks to pull this all off. #TTGPR we kick butt! More to come with ELLE DECOR in the near future. For now check out this awesome event recap and photo slideshow.
Country Floors Tile Design
Challenge Awards Ceremony with ELLE DECOR, Announces Mariana Ribeiro
as the Winner!
April 28, 2016, New York NY-The talk of
Chelsea New York was none other than Country Floors Tile Design
Challenge Awards Ceremony with ELLE DECOR. The evening of April 27,
2016 hosted more than 150 guests who attended the gorgeous showroom,
located on 15 East 16th Street, New York, NY, to announce
the official Country Floors Tile Design Challenge winner that was
first launched March 18, 2016.
Red carpet guests included
Model/Socialite Farah Zuilaikha, Celebrity Fashion Stylist Jay
Johnson, ELLE DECOR Vice President & Publisher Barbara Friedman
and Interior Designers Antonino Buzzetta, Clem Bachman, and Alfonsina
Romera, to name a few.
With displays of the finalist’s tile
designs spread throughout the showroom, an eight-foot-long white
leather tufted bar with sponsored Country Floors vodka cocktails by
Finlandia and complimentary hors 'd oeuvres, guest had plenty to look
at as well as enjoy.
A presentation was held at 8pm by
Country Floors Marketing Manager Justine Sturtevant. ELLE DECOR
Publisher Barbara Friedman followed with introductions from judges
Yasin Sengul (Country Floors Showroom Manager), Carisha Swanson
(Market Editor ELLE DECOR), Antonino Buzzetta (Interior Designer),
hand picked by ELLE DECOR to participate as a judge. All top
finalists were in attendance to include: Olga Shevliakova (NYSID),
Cheryl Sadlowski (NYSID), Jessica Edwards (F.I.T), Jean Delaporte
(Parsons School of Design), and the WINNER, Mariana Ribeiro (Parsons
School of Design).
Marian Ribeiro is a 21-year-old student
from Brazil that attends Parsons School of Design. Mariana's tile
design was selected the night before by all three judges, and
included Don Schmoll (Marketing Director, Hearst Design Group), Munir
Turunc (Country Floors owner), Justine (Marketing Manager), and
Ahlilah Longmire (President/Founder The Tesla Group PR & Events).
All have been working directly with Country Floors to produce the
Tile Design Challenge with ELLE DECOR and were the facilitators of
the awards ceremony event. Considerations behind the winning design
included creative direction, current trends in the marketplace, if
the tile design fit within the compounds of the Country Floors brand
and displayed the potential to actually be produced.
Mariana Ribeiro received a $500 Blick
Art gift card and will be featured in ELLE DECOR. In addition, her
design will be featured at the upcoming International Contemporary
Furniture Fair (ICFF). It is still being decided if her tile design
has met all of the specifications and requirements to go into
production. The winning tile design will remain in the Country Floors
showroom throughout spring. The evening ended with a check in the
amount of $1,000 being presented to Housing Works NYC on behalf of
the challenge. Sarah Morrow (Director of Major gifts) accepted the
check on behalf of Housing Works NYC. All guests received a gift bag
to include the current issue of ELLE DECOR, branded Country Floors
tape measures, USB look books, promotional cards of Country Floors
new tile collection.
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