In the world of contemporary design, Vicente Wolf has been at the top for 28 years. He heads his own company, Vicente Wolf Associates, and showroom, VW Home, located in a light-filled loft in New York City. 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/jamie stern 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/jamie once again to create a new line of upholstered furniture, Vicente Wolf for texstyle/jamie. 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.

The opportunity to partner with texstyle/jamie stern and to create an exclusive line of MIKEL PATRIK rugs provided an opportunity that reinforces my vision and body of work, studying the complexities and exploration of color, form and scale, which transcends well into ‘floor art’,” said Michael Patrick Thieme, owner and artist of MIKEL PATRIK. The collection offers three unique rug designs with each design having been taken directly from Mikel Patrik’s paintings. Each design is available in three colorways. Stitch represents a concentric square rug, Strata is a striped design and Pixel, appropriately named for its aesthetic, is a design of small scattered rectangles. Those familiar with PATRIK’s work will recognize the names from his paintings.
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“When we were exposed to Mikel Patrik’s vibrant work in Dwell magazine, we immediately became intrigued with the obvious correlation of his painting to hand tufted rugs. Mikel’s background as an architect smoothed the transition and Mikel Patrik’s Rug Collection came to life.

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/jamie stern, 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.

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.

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/jamie stern.

"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.