Keita Turner Design finished room vignette for Housing Work's Design on a Dime 2013 Benefit.
I was honored to be invited to participate in the 2013 Design On A Dime fundraising event benefiting Housing Works, as one of the designers creating room vignettes with furnishings donated and then sold to the public for deep discounted prices! On April 25-27, 2013, Housing Works presented New York City’s most popular interior design benefit event at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea. Design on a Dime features more than 50 of the world’s top interior designers, who create unforgettable room vignettes with new merchandise, which is donated and then sold for 50% to 70% off retail pricing! Design on a Dime’s founding chair, interior designer James Huniford, was joined by an incredible group of co-chairs, including: Yetta Banks (Viacom), Genevieve Gorder (HGTV’s “Design Star), Evette Rios (ABC’s “The Chew”), Sabrina Soto (HGTV’s “High Low Project”) and Lara Spencer (“Good Morning America”).
The objective was to take a 10' x 12' blank white room - then curate and design the space filled with merchandise that is donated through our own resources. Opening night, everything goes on sale to the public at deep discounted prices. Housing Works’ annual Design on a Dime event raised a record $1.1 million towards their housing expansion program for people living with HIV/AIDS in New York City. In its 9th year, the 3-day interiors sale and reception was attended by over 3,000 people who shopped 62 rooms designed with floor to ceiling product for sale. Proceeds from the multi-day event and sale will fund two housing development projects serving clients in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Design on a Dime will furnish 12 apartments in Housing Works’ much anticipated Jefferson Avenue Residence slated to open in the summer of 2013. Additional funds will help turn a vacant 6,000 sq ft. lot, into a beautiful and safe home for 27 single, formerly homeless adults living with HIV/AIDS.
The inspiration for our Housing Work's Design On A Dime room vignette was spurred from a lifestyle of easy living and relaxed weekends filled with long drives in the classic vintage convertible, walks through sawgrass paths to the beach, bike rides to the local farmer's market, and lazy afternoons hanging out on the front porch.
The concept of our room vignette was also driven by a small capsule of our new vintage textile and contemporary decorative throw pillow line, LIVVY & NEVA, that I introduced in my Design On A Dime vignette.
A small capsule of our new vintage textile and contemporary decorative throw pillow line, LIVVY & NEVA.
A tie-dye vintage scarf pillow from our new vintage textile and contemporary decorative throw pillow line, LIVVY & NEVA.
A vintage Jim Thompson cotton napkin and linen pillow from our new vintage textile and contemporary decorative throw pillow line, LIVVY & NEVA.
