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Townsend is proud of our environmental impact and are continually striving to make it even more positive.  This past Earth Day we, once again, held an annual Townsend-Team celebration of the Earth and green-goodness.  Our focus this year was to get outside and really connect to the beauty of nature.  

We encouraged all Townsend Partners to wander the Townsend campus, picking up trash, breathing the fresh air, taking in the wonder of the natural welcoming green spots that Townsend has to offer.  

“Earth Day is a chance to do something that will make a positive environmental impact, and the first step to making positive change is – to get outside and enjoy nature’s beauty, appreciate the areas we have, and get in touch with our outdoorsy selfs.”

The Townsend campus has so much greenery to offer, we turned it into a bit of a game/scavenger hunt.  Partners went out for walks in groups and searched out 6 different marked “Green Spots” where they could deposit any trash they found on their way, could read some interesting Green Facts, and pose for a green-centric selfie or group photo.  

Everyone got involved, even our favorite Earth-friend superhero, Captain Planet!

Green searchers even had a chance to win big ca$h prizes, just for getting out/getting green.  

From Townsend’s Facebook page:

“The Townsend Leather campus is loaded with beautiful, green, nature-filled areas. In honor of Earth Day, we have been getting outside and wandering the grounds for a “scavenger hunt” of ‘Green Spots and Photo Ops’. Captain Planet even stopped by! We at Townsend Leather take our responsibility to the Earth seriously and aim to make a positive environmental impact in the ways we do business and the grounds we maintain. We also take our responsibility to FUN seriously and make a game out of everything we can, especially if it means getting outside to see the Townsend Community Gardens, the outdoor break areas, the upper-lands meditative scenic outlook area, the pond, the pavilion, the flower gardens, and all the areas in between! Here are just a handful of the fun photos from today’s Get Out / Get Green event…

Townsend Partners, tag yourself and share your “Green Spot” Townsend photos! The power is yours! Happy Earth Day to you! And an even happier good-weather day!
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At Townsend we love Earth Day and we love any reason to get outside and enjoy Earth’s beauty.”

 

We have so much greenery to love at Townsend, our pond, our pavilion, our upper meditation flat lands, our outdoor break area, our community garden, our deep woods walking path (complete with a beaver), the geese, the wandering deer… so much nature to love.

At Townsend we love Earth Day and we love any reason to get outside and enjoy Earth’s beauty.

  

Our endless pursuit of leather exploration and R&D allows us to craft some truly stunning creations.  

We take inspiration from anywhere and everywhere to push the boundaries of leather and design.  Whether it is a new Pantone Color of the Year, artwork from an up and coming designer, a wood panel, or a walk in nature, our “aRt&D” craftspeople are constantly being inspired and creating. 

If you ever wanted to take a peak behind the curtain of color creation, take a moment to see the very short video below.  Speed through the process – of color reading a Pantone color chip with the technology and advanced techniques of getting the perfect color formula built, then hand measuring, mixing, testing, and refining by eye.  Our color matching experts are a perfect blend of technological advancement and legacy craftsmanship.  

Pantone’s Color of the Year, Ultra Violet, has clearly been an inspiration to our team and many designers across the globe.  Shades of violet are easy to spot, once your eye is tuned to them.  Like this image, you may find your desk is actually a Ultra Violet amalgamation. Click the Ultra-Violet-inspired image to see a selection of Ultra-Violet-inspired leathers in our Sample Store. 

 

The Pantone Color of the Year has inspired even the youngest of designers.  A future-designer, artful-eyed, master-digital-crafter, and daughter of Townsend’s own Sr. VP. of Sales and Marketing, Olivia, compiled two UV inspired art-boards, which in-turn inspired our aRt&D team to create a cosmically UV inspired “Abstract Art” leather.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See more of our R and D leathers and efforts, get inspired for your designs, or reach out and let us know your craziest leather dreams and inspire our craftspeople.  

R and D

Townsend’s ART & D Team is at it again…

Abstract Art

As you browse the most recent edition of Boutique Design Magazine, keep your eyes out for yet another Ultra Violet inspired leather of ours.  Featured in Boutique Design Magazine, you can see our UV inspired Taj Cowhide nestled between some classic Taj colors.  These leathers have moxie!  And not only that, but the can stand up to the hardest conditions, because they have Superior Rated Durability.  Visit www.townsendleather.com/superiordurability  to find out more.  

Superior Rated Durability

 

Find Your Sense of Zen…With Our Namaste Collection 
 
The Namaste Collection was inspired by our venture into finding more zen in our everyday lives. In this fast-paced world and industry, ensuring our employees find balance in life is important to us. One way we’ve done this is through incorporating the practice of yoga into our workplace culture.
 
Townsend Leather prides itself on our focus to craftsmanship and quality, our production process is so efficient and balanced that the leather manufacturing becomes a zen experience itself.  Watch the short video below to experience a brief glance of these supple, calming, luxurious leathers being hand-crafted here in the Townsend Leather facility. 
 

 
This collection has taken all aspects of Yoga and the divine world that Yogis practice and turned it into a beautiful, calming, and luxurious leather collection that is offered in eight tranquil colors with coordinating patterns and sheen. Produced with proprietary techniques and materials, the products in this collection, Prana, Shanti, Raja & Karma Cowhide, were created to be soft in touch and color and were inspired by the quiet beauty of nature our and our connection to it through the practice of yoga.
 
The story featured in The String this month is about the production of our first order for this new collection! Townsend was so proud to produce more than 8,300 SF of two of these new products within the Namaste Collection.  Shanti Cowhide Innocence and the coordinating Raja Cowhide Innocence which were both specified for the casino on Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam. Take a look at our behind the scenes story of how this beautiful and luxurious feeling product was produced for this project!
 
The Namaste Collection encourages a sense of calm and balance through interior designs and we hope it brings peace and beauty to each project where it is used. Read more about our story of this collection and our Townsend Leather partner bringing Yoga to our company after becoming a certified instructor.
 
 
And if you need just one more moment of zen… go ahead and zen-out to this short video of our gaufrage roll embossing…
 

 

We are in love with our newest luxury leather, Captivating Crossroads Cowhide!

It is like a love letter to your design, serving as the strong faithful support as a subtle background when it needs to be, but it can also take the lead – make the first move, and be the star stand out.  With an interwoven line embossing and hand tone-on-tone tipping this is hand-crafted luxury at its finest.  

We invite you to be captivated by its beauty and take a sneak peek behind the scenes at some of it being made.  

This video shows just a couple of the hands-on steps in creating this masterpiece.

 

https://townsendleather.com/leather/samples/product-lines/Captivating-Crossroads-Tipped-Cowhide-(CCRO-T)

Since Love is in the air, please take a moment to revisit a handful of reasons to Love Leather.  Read it, share it, dwell on it, leather is soo easy to love.  

For the LOVE of Leather – The Complete Series

The stories of where we’ve been and where we are going…

We believe there are stories everywhere, in everything.  We are driven by stories, we share stories, we are inspired by stories.  So with the new year comes a new theme for Townsend Leather, Stories Everywhere.  Stories, like floating word bubbles, that should be collected, enjoyed, and shared like the beautiful, attention-grabbing balloons that they are. 

The past few years we have been thinking of year’s in terms of a theme (Superheroes Work Here, Townsend Rocks, The Magic Of Leather…) it is a fun way for us to think about and craft our many events throughout the year and it always relates to the work we do and the way we interact with our customers.  This year we are going to put our focus to Stories.  Your stories, project stories, people stories, the story of each product – each hide – each hand that touches it… stories everywhere. 

Please share any and all your stories with us: www.townsendleather.com/stories

2018 will kick off our new theme, Stories Everywhere.  We will use this theme to help shape marketing elements this year and it will influence some fun we have around Townsend.  We will be looking this year to capture, collect, and share as many stories as we can.  Stories of Townsend, of Partners, of customers, of design, of anything!  These stories might take the form of phone-captured photos that you of our people and products at Townsend or out around the world, or might be stories of new exciting leathers, or might be actually long-form written stories where we share successes and learnings with each other.  There are stories everywhere, we just need to grab them out of the air and share them with each other. 

Please join us in celebrating the stories of Townsend, the stories of you, and the stories of leather all throughout 2018.  You can share stories directly to us at this link: www.townsendleather.com/stories and invite everyone to share stories with us too.

We have so much to look forward to this coming year, but let’s take a moment to reflect on the magical story filled year of 2017 that we just had.

One of our favorite magic moments was being awarded the honor of being a “BEST PLACES TO WORK 2017” by the Albany Business Review.  A small team of dedicated Townsend Partners attended the award ceremony and celebrated in style!

 

We closed out our year with our Annual Holiday company-wide Luncheon, where we all come together for a catered in-house lunch and share stories, hugs, laughs, and memories taking a breath from the crazy year we just had and moving forward with lessons and inspiration.

Each year we hold our Ugly Sweater Contest at this luncheon, and it never disappoints.  Along with stories form the year, superlative awards, and a message from the president it is a heartfelt and memorable time for all. 

 

So so much happened this year, it is impossible to capture everything, but we tried!  Take a look at a year of fun, magic, and craft from Townsend Leather all packed into a couple minutes – our year in blurview…

 

A few of our superstar Townsend Leather Partners are known for their wacky “who, what, where” hijinks, so we even had a moment to see their silliness play out on the big screen this year…

 

 

 

We are looking forward to the stories, continued magic, and incredible things that 2018 will bring.  We have so much new leather to craft and share, www.townsendleather.com/new and are always working to create even more fantastic things, www.townsendleather.com/randd .  And we can’t wait to see what comes of our newest expansion as we start work on revitalizing a historic building down the street from us, and we excitedly look forward to all the potential the new building holds for us and our team. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There will be so many stories to share this year,
please share yours with us,

www.townsendleather.com/stories

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Stories are what have always made Townsend and its partners more passionate, inspired, and determined to achieve such great heights.  Whether the story is about a customer, competitor, a need, a setback, a challenge, or the achievement, we love stories that need a hero or a great effort, or that celebrate one! 

Our company recognition is based upon telling stories about how our partners overcome, anticipate, help others, and make our magic happen!  If a company’s culture is defined by how they work, and its purpose is defined by what they stand for, then its partners’ engagement is defined by how they feel about both.  The way we feel about our work is often conveyed with pride, emotion, compassion, and joy through the stories we share.  Our partners know Townsend is known for designing, creating, and producing the highest quality leather on-schedule, a job they take seriously, and in itself, is what creates a lot of pride in making a career out of working with such cool people on such cool things!  Their careers become a calling, a passion, and/or a livelihood when it is given a narrative.

The stories of this leather, that effort, this person, that team, this color, that print, under these circumstances, make the difference to our name and to our customer and their end user, and it was felt.  No matter how we earned it before, it is the stories we create today and tomorrow that keep giving meaning, purpose, and fulfillment to us, from the newest employee or customer, to the one who has seen it all!  Going into our 49th year, the stories we create and tell still drive our future and build on our mutual legacies – from our suppliers, to our employees, to our external sales team, and finally our customers, without whom there is no story to tell.  On behalf of our whole team, I thank you.  We hope to create a million stories of achievement, success, wonderment, inspiration, a little suspense, a touch of drama, and of course, many happy endings in 2018 together!

Jared Eckler  Townsend Leather President

 

 

We are so grateful to each of you and the magic you brought Townsend this year.  We are grateful for your skills and efforts and passions.  We are grateful for the wealth of stories and excitement you bring to your work and relationships.  2017 was a successful year and has set us up well to create a truly story-worthy 2018. 

 

Townsend Leather is thrilled to be gaining Tracy Kaiser of Kaiser Hospitality as their new Sales Representative servicing Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. 

Tracy has a true passion for both leather and providing exemplary service to his clients and with 8 years of previous experience selling to the A&D community, furniture market, and Hospitality industry, Tracy alongside with his Project Manager, Christina Jasso, are dedicated to assisting clients with their leather needs for every project.

“When we can help a client at the right time – when they need it the most – and a project comes together – that’s inspiration for us” – Kaiser Hospitality

Tracy looks forward to meeting with you to show Townsend’s complete leather line out unsurpassed custom capabilities.  Contact him at:

Phone:  (917) 312-9373
 

www.townsendleather.com/findarep

Todd Kaiser of Kaiser Contract has joined Townsend Leather to offer our superlative leather, speed, and customer service to the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California.  

Based in Napa, Todd has been a member of the California A+D community for the past 15 years.  He takes pride in his relationships and helping our clients reach their goals.  He enjoys wine, travel, golf, reading, Tahoe, and being an truly obnoxious fan of the Golden State Warriors.  

Todd represents a group of upscale and domestic lines including leather, casegoods, upholstery, and outdoor furnishings.

Townsend Leather is excited to partner with Todd as we grow rapidly in this key market.

To start collaborating with Todd please contact him at:
 
Phone:  949-689-2112
 

www.townsendleather.com/findarep

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