save the date: designer sale | 10.24.09 | costa mesa

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

save the date: designer sale | 10.24.09 | costa mesa

Announcing another HIGH-END DESIGNER TAG SALE
Saturday, October 24, 10am-2pm

466 East 18th St., Costa Mesa, CA 92627

Vanessa Squared Productions, founded by interior designer Vanessa De Vargas and design editor Vanessa Kogevinas, is proud to present our second HIGH-END DESIGNER TAG SALE SHOPPING EVENT in conjunction with Amanda Malson and Jolene Ballard of Domicile Interior Design.

The Designer Tag Sale is an upscale interior designer yard/tag sale hosted by Keri Shrimpton that will feature over ten of Orange County and Los Angeles' top designers selling items from their personal inventories including small furniture such as side-tables, lamps, rugs, pillows, art, accessories and more at incredibly low prices! At our tag sales nothing is over $200, and prices run as low as $5. Lots of holiday gift potential!!

Domino and Sunset magazines recently held similar successful events.

The following interior designers are confirmed: Vanessa De Vargas of Turquoise, Jolene Ballard and Amanda Malson of Domicile Interior Design, Zak Graff of Barclay Butera, Lindsey Dann of Former Furniture, Krista Ewart of Krista Ewart Design, Natalie Umbert of Atelier Natalie Umbert, Rick Campos of Christopher Tracy Interiors, Steve Jones of Better Shelter, Keri Shrimpton of Keri Shrimpton Design, Krista Browne of Krista Browne Designs, Dianne Kraus of Green Tangerine, and Sabina Vavra of Madison West Interiors, Jonathan Lo of Happy Mundane, and Gary Bates of Refab Clinic.

Vendors include m[E] Material Environment, Richie Design, The Red Velvet Company, SMARTY, and Yelp will participate as a media sponsor.

The Designer Tag Sale also features mini-consultations and appraisals by designers, a silent auction, a raffle and more. Entertainment includes a bar, light passed appetizers and beauty treatments.

Gift bags are offered to the first thirty attendees including gift certificates, coupons, and other fun items. Any left-over designer inventory is donated to The Sheepfold (a women with children’s shelter). Entry fee is $10. Cash only; designers will not have credit card capabilities.

We greatly look forward to your participation and support!

For more information please go to http://designertagsale-oc.blogspot.com or contact:

Domicile Interior Design info@domicileid.com; 714.552.8280; www.domicileid.com www.domicileid.blogspot.com

Vanessa Kogevinas at vanessakog@gmail.com; 310.740.0766; www.vanessakogevinas.com

Vanessa De Vargas of Turquoise; turquoise.la@gmail.com; 310.578.1722; www.turquoise_la.com

Keri Shrimpton of Keri Shrimpton Design; kshrimpton@mac.com; 949.500.8379; www.kerishrimpton.com

Bio information:

Domicile Interior Design

domicile interior design is a full service interior design studio specializing in residential, hospitality, retail and commercial interior design and an array of home good products. Domicile believes in forging meaningful relationships with all their clientele. Their goal is to create a home that reflects the client’s needs and personality through a unique and personal process. Domicile deftly blends old and new with a west coast influence to produce chic, eclectic and comfortable interiors.

Amanda Malson of Domicile has worked as an interior designer within the high-end residential and hospitality design fields in both San Francisco and Los Angeles for the last eleven years. Her experience has included overseeing the design and management of several multimillion-dollar projects and a position at the Los Angeles based design firm KWID where she gained valuable boutique hotel experience. Her signature style is based upon traditional classic principles mixed with a sixties and seventies modern era aesthetic pulled together by soft contrasting color palettes.

Jolene Ballard of Domicile studied interior design at Iowa State University where she received her BFA. After working in Des Moines, Jolene relocated to southern California where she took a design position at Gensler where she completed many high profile office environments. Her ability to combine modernism and classicism while mixing high-end style with low-end flea market finds create relaxed, eclectic and stylish interiors that parallel her personal style. Jolene is LEED accredited, CID certified and is the co-president of the IIDA Orange County chapter.

A native Californian, Keri Shrimpton of Keri Shrimpton Design pursued other career goals before returning to her first love of interior design. Her passions for traveling and visiting flea markets inform Keri's style, which is best described as modern eclectic with hints of classicism.

Vanessa Kogevinas’s career in publishing and management has spanned over fifteen years, including positions at Architectural Digest and as a founding editor of Western Interiors and Design magazine. She is currently serving as a Contributing Editor for California Homes magazine and a new interior design-related website www.editoratlarge.com <http://www.editoratlarge.com/> . She has recently founded her own consulting firm, Get It!, as well as VSP with designer Vanessa De Vargas

Vanessa De Vargas is an LA-based interior decorator and furniture designer who launched her Venice Beach design label and interior design firm Turquoise. She has been named an ‘up-and-coming designer to watch’ by Angeleno magazine, is a regular contributor to Apartmenttherapy.com and runs a successful E-Decorating business. She recently founded VSP with design editor Vanessa Kogevinas.