Continuing our growth and desire to serve you even better, Townsend has taken on a new representative for the So Cal region.
The newest member to the Townsend Leather family is, Pete Bilbrey.
Pete is a seasoned veteran of the hospitality and design industries. Having formed his company IDR, Inc. (International Design Resource) in 1992, Pete has been involved in the Vegas Hospitality Market since 1999. You might recognize Pete’s name if you are in Southern California, The Desert, or Las Vegas areas, as he has worked with virtually every major design firm over the past 20 years.
International Design Resource prides itself on following up and following through with their customers. In all situations, throughout the design and product process they can be counted on. Pete and his team specialize in textiles and leather as well as upholstery, case goods, art, and outdoor furnishings. Their knowledge of these products have helped designers on projects for virtually every major Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, as well as Indian Gaming facilities nationwide.
Pete is a quick-reacting and hardworking individual who is anxious to provide to his customers the best service and products in the industry.
Townsend is proud to call him one of our team.
For your next project in the Southern California, San Diego, Orange County, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and Las Vegas areas , contact him here on our Find a Rep page, Pete Bilbrey
The much sought-after Soucie Horner, Ltd recently designed a residential living space that incorporated Townsend Leather in an interesting way.
Our Artesano Woven Antique Lace leather was used for the rug in the space. The rug is accented with our Couture White Pearl as the rug binding.
Yet another exciting design that Townsend Leather is proud to have been a part of.
Townsend Leather received a very nice Thank You card on behalf of The ShellStrong Fundation Townsend is proud to be able to help support their cause and efforts. Their Spirits for Strength Celebration raised over $40,000!
Read the story behind the great foundation making such an impact to benefit our local upstate New York area – The powerful ShellStrong Foundation story
D Home Magazine just did an article on Dallas based Designer Secrets and wanted to use Townsend Leather – Pantone Color of The Year inspired – leather for their feature.
See images of the article below, or view a selection from it with Townsend’s leather here, The Best Interior Designs in Dallas 2013 Townsend Leather
Townsend is excited to be shown in this article along with such incredible designers and impressive products and especially proud of this quote from President of Vision Design and Townsend customer, Dan Nelson,
“Textured leathers have brought a whole new dimension to upholstery. This selection from Townsend is particularly striking.” Dan Nelson
It certainly doesn’t feel like one-day away from spring here in upstate New York,
but still, we can’t help looking forward to spring and the coming trends.
This coming season we are expecting to see a big interest in Black & White schemes. Solids, stripes, patterns all playing with black and white combos.
Often used with a bright accent, but using the black and white as a base strong enough to work on its own.
We’ve explored the influence of fashion on interiors before and we can expect that to really hold true this Spring. Spring fashion this year will feature lots of black and white and that will in turn influence the rest of the design world.
With its timelessness and ability to be both modern and classic at the same time, its no surprise that Black and White schemes are becoming increasingly popular.
A successful B&W scheme uses a balance of black to white, not ignoring the clarity of the white for the strength of the black and not subduing the black as an accent to the striking white – but using both as backdrop and foreground equally to really play with the senses.
View our Black and White Selection or build your own, Townsend Leather Black and White Lightbox
Join the Facebook discussion and let us know where you are seeing Black and White.
Last week Townsend Leather was proud to host US Congressman Bill Owens representing the 21st District of New York State for a tour and conversation.
See the photos and a brief recap in our Townsend Leather News, Your Government at Work – Congressman Bill Owens
The New York government quite literally came to work last Friday, at Townsend Leather.
US Congressman Bill Owens representing New York State District 21 took some time out of his packed schedule to spend a couple hours at Townsend Leather.
Mr. Owens got the full tour to learn about all the processes, steps, and people that craft Townsend’s leather. He also spent time listening to concerns about the area and the state of current politics and had some deep and meaningful conversation about solutions.
Congressman Bill Owens is the representative for New York’s 21st Congressional District, a post he has held since 2009. From his website bio: As the Representative for the second largest congressional district east of the Mississippi, Bill is working with his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to help create jobs and economic opportunity for hardworking New York families.
Some of the experts at Townsend, Tim Beckett – Sr. Vp., Jared Eckler – President, and Terry Kucel – Chairman spent time giving the Congressman the tour and conversing about issues. Many of the topics focused around improving employment conditions in the Fulton County area and creating a more business-friendly environment in New York State.
The Congressman, his team, the newspaper reporters, and the NBC news team all seemed to be impressed with the facilities and the amount of hand-crafted-ness that goes into each Townsend Leather order.
NBC News 13 of Albany was there to report and featured a concise story on the visit and some of the topics discussed, WNYT News Video Clip of Townsend Leather
Everyone who met Bill was happy they did, he was a friendly and attentive person who is clearly passionate about the area and making it even better. We all felt proud to have him here at Townsend and see first hand the people and work happening right here in upstate New York.
We look forward to all the changes and growth we can expect to see at Townsend and in the area over the coming years.
