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ASID Dream House- Rick Campos

2012-04-03T18:41:19Z

Personally Sarah Strader and Rick Campos have known each other for several years. Last spring they partnered on the Lido Goes Pop Event. This year when Rick was preparing for the ASID Dream Home, they were able to pull from Sarah's new "unreleased hand blocked textiles collection" for this special occasion. Rick wanted something unique and fresh for his urban library.

Sarah gave Rick a private showing specifically with flanking the back wall with silk hand printed drapery. Working with his custom color scheme and hitting a color between two selected shades on the Dunn Edwards color wheel. A perfect paring for the space as well to accent the tonal range represented in the wall covering. As always it was a true pleasure working with Rick, we are looking forward to partnering with him on future projects.

"Rick Campos is the owner of Christopher Tracy Interiors in Newport Beach, California and specializes in residential interior design. Rick is dedicated to creating practical and sensible design solutions that help people “live better”. An IDI alum, Rick’s uncomplicated design approach and knack for blending design styles places him among an innovative new generation of interior designers. He is an Allied Member of ASID and serves on the 2011-2012 Board of Directors for the Orange County chapter."

For more details- see Rick Campos Blog.

Luxury Living Collection- Customized

2012-03-26T17:38:03Z

Luxury Pillows is one of our favorite ways to bring big impact to a small space, however the production process is comonly overlooked by design clients. This will be a thing of the past after Orange County Designer Mary Ann Shanks of M.Shanks Interiors and her client experiance what an impact custom details make on the space thorugh applying all of the custom options we officer. Our firm know pillows will never be “just pillows” again, they perfectly trim the space with decadence.

Mary Ann had the oppertunity to work closely with the Costa Mesa Showroom located in the Stonemill Design Center, Estate of Design, and Jessica Johnson showroom sales expert, Jessica was able to paint the picture of what is capable though our Luxury Living Collection!

Take a peak as to what we created for Mary Ann Shanks, thorugh cusotm colors on the Moulin Rouge Collection.

Patterns: Danielle, Yoli and Becka (4" Stripe)

Textiles on the street!

2012-01-16T19:24:04Z

Daring to be different owner and designer Sarah Strader wore her new silk collection to an awards dinner in December hosted at the Disneyland Hotel. Not only is Sarah daring in her textiles designs she does not back down form showing off her passion in public. Sarah is known for her extraordinary ability to use color and pattern in decoration. She is constantly inspired by motifs from all around the world as well as natural elements. Interior Design has come a long way from white walls and light colored motifs. Now we can find inspirations form around the world in our own back yard, locally grown, and in colors that astound the senses. Take a bold leap with your clients and show them something that will have all their friends drooling over what you have created for their space.

Sarah is seen here with another award recipient Anni Truong, prior to entering the gala.

Pattern shown: is Yoli: ground is palm: white and raspberry cream.

What's behind the Designer!

2012-01-03T20:24:01Z

Sarah Strader has been submersed in the design world since she was a little girl.

Even when she wanted to rearrange her room, she was sketching floor plans and measuring all her furniture to ensure the new arrangement would fit. Sarah was very creative building houses for her dolls, with the magic of cardboard and wallpaper Sarah was unstoppable. Sarah attended a high school in Altamonte Springs Florida, where not only was she able to follow art she played 3 separate sports. Played as a varsity player on the undefeated golf team. With the support of her art education teacher who pushed Sarah to “think outside the box”, this would support her in her move to Detroit, Michigan’s prestigious Collage for Creative Studies to purse her art education. Sarah Majored in Interior Design with a minor in Furniture Design and Graphic Design. Though her declared major all students were required to follow though with a foundations program. This included glass blowing, gas welding, wood shop, figure drawings, painting, book making, chalk drawing, and extensive art history. Though out her education Sarah was privy to classes being held at the art museum, including a private showing of Degas’ original sketches from his private sketchbook.

Sarah’s education is unparallel for her industry, she has the ability to walk anyone through their space and have them fall in love with the potential of their space!

Since Sarah has launched her furniture and textiles collection she has filled a void in the industry. She brings such care and attention to details for what has been missing; the level of attention for her product also transcends in her design work and the customer service to all o f her clients.

Her textiles are unparallel to any hand printed goods on the market. 23 amazing patterns with an amazingly unique color palate.

The new look

2011-11-02T22:04:47Z

Every season there is a reason for change. The chnaging of the leaves, adding a scarf to your wardrobe, changing your makeup colors. Giving in to Fall never felt so good!

This Fall season Sarah has changed the beat of interior textiles. Her launch of her fall collection handbolcked on silks changed the pace of where handprinting textiles will be capable of going!

Lagre scale patterns, hand painted stripes, and bold bright colors like never seen before.

She has adopted a fasion show as her platform for her presentation. This is the second year that Sarah has had a collection launch that was unparrelle to any other product reveal. Set to love music, fun festive Moulin Rouge theamed garments to showcase wild color combintations, patterns, and textures in a turly unique presentation.

2011 Moulin Rouge Textiles Runway Showcase

2011-11-01T23:07:38Z

Moulin Rouge- Runway Spectacular

2011-07-19T04:28:06Z

Spectacular, Spectacular, No words in the vernacular,

Can describe this great event, You'll be dumb with wonderment!

Sarah Strader Design launches a new textiles collection in a Spectacular, Spectacular!

Bigger, Better and Brighter than ever before!

RSVP's required for this event to reserve your seat.

Please RSVP to jessica@sarahstrader.com

Full reception to follow the runway spectacular.

Pretty in Pink with Custom Bedding!

2011-07-12T23:03:53Z

A vendor came up to us and asked for our help on her granddaughter’s room. What an amazing project, kids rooms are always so much fun to design.

This was not your ordinary little girl; she is filled with energy and lots of spunk! We proposed a new spin on the ordinary “pink decor” we needed lots of flavor! Considering she is only two years old we needed something playful and a space she can grow into. Themed kids rooms seem to only work for a maximum of two years because no little girl wants to keep her Barbie poster hanging on the wall with all the matching decor.

As a focal point we anchored the room with a cherry blossom tree. We were able to customize the tree with our color scheme. The white and raspberry blossoms spanning across her bedroom were reflected in the mirrored closet doors appearing as if she was in her very own personal garden. The tree created for this room was a 6’-0” decal, considering the growth needed for the room we selected a decal as an alternative for a mural. The beauty behind the decals is they can be custom and fully removable without harming the paint.

Other accent decals in the room included her name above her bed and doves on her play set furniture. The play set was refinished from an espresso brown to a raspberry and layering the polka-dot fabric for custom cushions. We found the perfect fabric from Maxwell fabrics the custom duvet, euro pillows, chair cushions, as well as accent pillows.

Seat cushions were designed as a custom box cushion using two Maxwell fabrics. We used polka-dot pattern on the top side and solid raspberry on the bottom, as well as for the self-welt and ties.

The duvet consists of three fabrics: solid raspberry shown in a 7” trim framing the duvet. Front side center polka-dot pattern called “Smarties” and on the reverse a two-tone raspberry plaid. When the bed is folded back you see both patterns, it also allows her to change the pattern based on her mood.

Cassandra Pattern- Destination Inspiration

2011-07-11T18:19:59Z

Cassandra pattern was created as an embellishment of a vintage pendant. A burst of personality radiating form the center, stacking the pattern within a pattern and embracing it with a radial orb which consists of smaller concentric ellipses. Many small intricate patterns make up this large pattern. A truly great addition to any room in the form of accessories or a focal piece of furniture, this pattern is like your favorite cocktail ring! Fearless!

Cassandra’s pattern was featured in the Pasadena showcase house in Jon Jahr’s room on pillows.

The pattern’s names were selected from each model that walked in Sarah’s Original Runway show in 2010. Cassandra Pattern was also selected for her to debut in the runway showcase primarily because Cassandra is a budding star, young and determined to rise to the top. Cassandra is also Jessica’s sister (of the Jessica Pattern). The pattern holds a remarkable truth about sisters and patterns; they can display similarities and be vastly individual.

Lido - Goes POP!

2011-07-07T17:48:38Z

Two designers were selected to represent Stonemill Design Center in Lido goes Pop! Local Interiors designer, Rick Campos of Christopher Tracey Interiors and Sarah Strader of Sarah Strader Design were selected to design an empty space to coincide with the Newport Film Festival. Rick and Sarah worked together to create a design concept that would enhance this event and rock the design world. The goal was to select all products to showcase the Stonemill Design Center. Design concept “Hermes Meets Andy Warhol?” Lido Goes Pop to us meant “Pop Art” and “Pop of Color.”

The space was completely bare; we were given 5 days to set up, 5 days of display and 1 day to tear down! In true Designer Tradition we needed to start off with a dramatic statement “flooring”. What’s better than solid wood? Not many floors can compete with flooring that was restored from 19’ wine barrel’s. Everyone was surprised that we had flooring installed for a one-week event. We loved that our floor installers took pride in their work and it showed in the space, they worked with tight timeline. Gerridy’s also provided the flooring, the lovely shag rug for the back of the house along with a full wine racking system.

Kenneth McDonald provided accessories, outdoor furniture and perfectly with the mirrored sideboard which anchored the space. The sideboard also held a flat screen TV and all its components from DL Technologies.

DL Technologies showcased their ability to have the entire sound system, music, videos and lighting just at a touch of a button.

Representing Estate of Design was Sarah Strader’s Marquez chairs and the Marquez Ottoman as well as Sarah’s textile collection. To see the rest of Sarah’s collections you can visit the Estate of Design located in the Stonemill Design Center. All of the soft goods were prepared and installed by Creative Window Design.

Accents “Pop Art” displayed in fabric wrapped boards from Kenneth McDonald showroom. Art was provided by local artists in Newport Beach.

One of Sarah’s custom creations is the custom printed drapery show in the April pattern. We edited the April pattern and instead of using it in its original full print, it was ½ of the print printed in a custom to coincide with the rest of the design elements and color in the entire design.

Taylor Moody from International Wine Venture provided all the wine and sommelier services for our events. His company specializes in “Bringing the Vineyard to your Backyard.”

Sarah Loves a collobrative project and Rick Campos was a dream to work with, Rick and Sarah had so much fun together and overlaping design tastes never seem to hurt.

Price Tag- 900 sq.ft = $150,000.00+