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Newport Showhouse Guild Announces Designers for 2006 Designer Showhouse
NEWPORT, RI – March 22, 2006 - The Newport Showhouse Guild announced today the selection of twenty-three leading interior designers to participate in the Guild’s 2006 Designer Showhouse. This year’s event, “Charity by Design,” will be held at Carnegie Abbey Club in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Newport County and the Star Kids Scholarship Program. The Designer Showhouse is open to the public from May 5-June 3rd, 2006.
“We are thrilled with the talent and energy these designers are bringing to this year’s Showhouse,” said Caroline Slee, President of the Newport Showhouse Guild, “We are quite literally breaking new ground with two new homes on the beautiful Carnegie Abbey site, overlooking Narragansett Bay.”
The newly constructed homes, built by the Horan Building Company of Newport, are a first new constructions in the 11-year history of the Designer Showhouse, Ms. Slee noted.
The 2006 Designer Showhouse participants include:
Annie/Gary Gesualdo, East Coast Designs
Carol Swift, Swift-Morris Interiors - Newport
Carol Swift, Tiedemann Collection - Newport
Christine Hannon, Hannon Art Works
Debbie DeCristofaro, PJ’s Flooring-Windows-Interior Design
Eileen Marcuvitz, Plum Interiors
Gaye Weatherly, Weatherly Tile & Stone
Irina, Pastiche of Cape Cod
Jan Girouard, All About Redecorating
Janet Luczak, Passion for Fabric
Jay Luiz, Kyureo
Joy Sawyer, Joy Sawyer Interior Design
Judith Rosenthal, Designing Spaces
Judy Rignanese and Jo-Ann Vignone, J Interiors
Julie Shramko, Luxe Design
Kathleen Bright Sullivan, Pastiche of Cape Cod
Linda Butler
Marc Bordet, Bordet Interiors
Mark Horan, Horan Building Company
Mary Lou Smith
Roselle McConnell, Infant Interiors
Stacy Carlson, Lou Lou’s Décor
Stasia Powers, Artful Sinks
“I am honored to contribute to this Newport tradition of giving back,” said Carol Swift of Swift Morris Interiors in Newport, one of the design firms participating in the Showhouse. “From a design perspective, the houses at Carnegie Abbey present an opportunity – and a challenge – to bring a newly built home to life. And enriching life is what the Guild and the showhouse are all about.”
The Newport Showhouse Guild has raised over $300,000 for the Newport charities benefiting women and children.
For further information on the Showhouse, go to www.newportshowhouse.org, www.carnegieabbeyclub.com, or www.horanbuilding.com.
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