For the past eighteen years, Tom Stringer has quietly created dream havens for some of America’s most prestigious families. Through his multi-disciplinary design firm based in Chicago, Stringer designs classic interiors with a thoroughly modern sensibility. While his work ranges from the design of private estates to restaurants and yachts, it is always accented with custom furnishings designed exclusively for his clients.

Stringer’s interior design work has come to national attention with publications in Traditional Home, Architecture and Design, Shelter, Florida Design, California Home, and other magazines. House Beautiful has named Stringer to its Top 125 Designers in 2003 and 2004.

Texstyle is introducing Stringer’s classic, contemporary touch with furnishings in a series of travel inspired collections designed exclusively for us.

A frequent and adventuresome voyager, Stringer’s furniture and rug collections for Texstyle reflect the architecture, design and natural surroundings of distant places. While the forms of his first upholstered furniture collection are inspired by the great hotels of Europe, from Stockholm to Rome, the patterns and palette of his carpet collections reflect the more exotic locales he has visited.

“Whether strolling city streets, on safari or diving tropical reefs, I always bring home the texture, shapes and colors I experience while away,” says Stringer. “Incorporating those elements into my design work is a way of making my memory of those wonderful experiences permanent.”

San Francisco based Brian Graham has utilized his talent for design in a wide array of concerns, most notably corporate interior, showroom and furniture design.

"Because I am an interior designer by training I always consider the way in which my furniture will be specified by a designer to be as important as the object itself," says Graham. "I believe the furniture I've designed should serve in support of their vision for an interior environment."

Inspired by a broad array of influences from art deco to mid-century modernism, Graham has created four distinctive new collections of lounge furniture for Texstyle.

"The role of lounge seating is at once both functional and sculptural," says Graham. "Each of the new designs I've created reference history while introducing something new in the way of function, material, or detailing."

Brian's work has been nationally recognized with design awards from the American Institute of Architects, The Institute of Business Designers, The International Interior Design Association, The American Bar Association, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture & Design, The International Facilities Management Association and The Industrial Design Society of America.

Interior Design Magazine inducted Vicente Wolf in its Designer Hall of Fame, and House Beautiful named Wolf as one of the most influential designers in the United States. He was selected as one of the Top 100 designers in Metropolitan Home’s “Design 100” and Architectural Digest’s “AD 100”. Wolf’s work has been featured in various design books and magazines, including Interior design, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Elle Décor, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home, and House & Garden among others.

Wolf recently combined efforts with Texstyle to create custom designed furniture for L’Impero Restaurant in New York City, winner of the 2003 James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design.

Wolf has recently combined efforts with Texstyle once again to create a new line of upholstered furniture, Vicente Wolf for Texstyle. This line, guided by Wolf’s principles of integrity and simplicity is due out in Spring, 2004 and will be featured in Wolf’s New York showroom, VW Home.

Philippe David received his diploma from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Art in Paris. He joined the textile design studio “Craft” before being chosen by Thierry Mugler to create textiles for several fashion and home furnishing collections.

Philippe David first established himself in the U.S. market by designing a series of textiles for Mr. Robin Roberts, President and founder of Clarence House. This led to further commissions from such prestigious fabric houses as Nobilis, Rubelli, Bousac, Yves St. Laurent of America Home, Donghia Fabrics, and Fujie Textile in Japan. His first carpet and rug collections were created for Saxony Carpet in the U.S. Additional rug collections were created in Europe for Sam Laik, Pansu.

In his latest collaboration with Texstyle, Philippe David expresses his strong interest in nature, fibers, textures, evocation of plants, and minerals. Traveling was also instrumental in elaborating this line: Brazil, Guyana, India for the colors and spirituality. Above all, this collection shows his great passion for drawing and painting.