Design ADAC with Thomas O'Brien & Veranda Magazine

On Wednesday, April 26th, Thomas O'Brien and a few members of our team left High Point furniture market a day early to travel down to Atlanta for Thomas' keynote presentation for Design ADAC.  Presented by Veranda Magazine, who is celebrating their 30th Anniversary this year, Design ADAC is an incredible event for interior designers in the Southeast, and we were thrilled to be a part of the festivities. 

Thomas presentation was a visual tour of his ideology on creating a home calling it "that certain feeling: practical and beautiful".  Over 175 guests attended the presentation, which was followed by a book signing and scrumptious lunch in our Century showroom. 

Here are some of our favorite photos from the event!

 

Thank you to all who attended, Veranda Magazine and ADAC for such an amazing event!  A special thanks to our amazing Atlanta team for hosting us all!

Charlotte Moss for Century Icons

This spring has been a whirlwind.  Celebrating our 65th year, my grandfather started Century in 1947, we had a lot on the agenda for April and May and so I find myself sitting here almost in July writing about this spring!

One highlight has been the official launch of our Charlotte Moss for Century Icons collection.  At Design ADAC on May 2nd, we celebrated with about 200 guests the launch of Charlotte's new collection for our Icons program.  Extremely thoughtful, detailed and entertaining, Charlotte kicked off the day with a standing room only presentation, and then together with the incredible team from Veranda, we enjoyed a fun and southern style reception in our showroom. What a day! 

Full house for Charlotte's keynote presentation.

 The Charlotte Moss for Century Icons display in our Atlanta showroom.

 Fun and tasty fare catered by The Hungry Peach (those deviled eggs rock!)

 Charlotte signed her book for the designers and friends who came.

 Dara Caponigro, Editor-in-Chief of Veranda

with Eric Schenk, Century President & CEO and his wife, Patty.

Special thanks to Charlotte Moss, Matthew Kowles, the entire Veranda team-- Jennifer Bruno, Dara Caponigro, Angela Jett, Felicia Pesis, Mendy & Linda Dahlia, and the marketing team at ADAC--Katie Belveal, Kristine Turner and MacKenzie Johnson for creating such a wonderful day for everyone.

The East Coast Launch of Juan Montoya for Century Icons

We celebrated the East coast launch of Century Icons: Juan Montoya in Atlanta last week. Juan had been invited by ADAC management to be a key note speaker for their month long series entitled "Design Defined".

So we packed up the truck which included several, never seen before pieces from Juan's collection and set about creating some magic. And of course Juan did not disappoint - the room is amazing!

Thought I would share some photographs (and remember I promised a pic of Juan making the bed) ....

My newest, favorite piece (so hard to choose, I'd be lying if I didn't admit to having multiple favorites) is the "Strap Dining Table" #I19-301. I especially loved how Juan staged the table for how "he sees it being used .... beyond a formal dinner party" with a cozy setting for two at the opposite end of a table that also provides space for reading and displaying one's library.

The Juan Montoya collection is available to-the-trade through Century Designer Showrooms, please visit our website for more information.

Juan graced us with a wonderful presentation in Atlanta, showing an inside look at some of the spectacular homes he has designed. Afterwards, we hosted a reception in the Century showroom which included a meet & greet with Juan as well as a book signing.

We could not have asked for a better nor more lovely turnout of designers! A very special thanks to Juan Montoya as well as the entire ADAC team including Susan Zinger, General Manager of ADAC, and our local Century team Mary Ellen Taylor, showroom manager, and Dale Story, showroom sales for making this event such an amazing success!

Century Icons: Juan Montoya

We recently celebrated the US launch of 'Century Icons: Juan Monotya' in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center's West Week . Juan was on hand for the unveiling and graciously presented a slide show of recent projects as well as signed copies of his newest self-titled book, "Juan Montoya".

What a tremendous turnout - thank you to Brian Millard our showroom manager and all of the PDC staff for their efforts in making this a successful launch.

We were so blessed to have Juan's creativity and input in creating the display of the furniture. It is amazing to watch such an incredible talent at work, at every level - from the combination of textures on the sofa (velvet, grosgrain ribbon and a backed sheer), accessorizing the etageres to actually making the bed (if only I had a picture of that). Just magnificent! Thought you all would love to see some photographs from the big day!

Century Icons furniture is available exclusively through Century Showroom across the US. Our next event with Juan will be in Atlanta's ADAC on May 19th. Hope to see you there!