Get ready Fall Market, these bloggers will be taking over!

Get to know yet another four bloggers, their blogs, their mission and how they make design come to life on the web.

Here we go:

Barbara H. Karpf for DecoratorsBest

For the past twenty years Barbara, NKBA Kitchen Designer, has worked in NYC, The Hamptons, and the entire Metropolitan area. She is in “Who’s Who in Interior Design” and was selected as one of the “Great Designers of the World 2000.” She has also participated in many decorator showhouses, her work has been featured in numerous national publications and she has been a guest lecturer at The Architectural Digest Home Show in NYC.
When surfing the web she noticed a real niche to fill “To the Trade Only” designer fabric and wallpaper was unrepresented online. It was up to her to bring this industry into the 21st Century – thus DecoratorsBest was born.



Raina Kattelson for A Stylist’s Life

Raina was 21 when she started Woojee Wear, designing and manufacturing her own line of hip, European influenced kids clothes. It was sold across the country in boutiques and department stores including Henri Bendel’s.

After a while she felt the lure of the image and decided to take up the life of a stylist-styling fashion, beauty, still life and interiors. This work has brought her commissions as display designer, location scout and interior designer, designing homes as well as several restaurants. When not off on a styling gig Raina can be found with her husband and two daughters in New York's Hudson Valley gardening and renovating old houses.



Marni Elyse Katz for Style Carrot

Marni describes herself as a writer and editor living in Boston, obsessed and affected by the aesthetics of life. She had the chance to work for Rolling Stone Magazine and was an editor at a travel magazine and a woman’s magazine. These days, from the sofa she writes about the (material) stuff that life is made of. Wrap dresses, platform sandals, shimmery lipstick, dewy skin, shiny hair, green weddings, zebra skin rugs, modernist furniture, cavernous closets, emerging artists, bauhaus architecture, japanese gardens, kissing, and fantasies of all types.



Carrie Leskowitz for Carrie’s Design Musings

Having been in the fashion and design business for many years as a stylist, fashion show coordinator, and now the principal of Carrie Leskowitz Interiors, Carrie describes herself as passionate about all forms of design and fascinated by those who create it. She loves the design process and being challenged by design dilemmas. Her motto is: "A dash of drama goes a long way.”

Take a look back at this week’s previous posts to meet other great bloggers: Part I, Part II, Part III, and check back tomorrow for our final blogger round-up as we prep for Fall Market.

For live feeds and updates during Fall Market follow the DDB and our guest bloggers on Twitter:
#ddbmarket @danddbuilding @godesigngo @DecoratorsBest @astylistslife @stylecarrot @cleskowitz

Meet more fun, fierce bloggers

Back for another blog fix? Meet three more of the industries' best, making their way to Fall Market!


Suysel dePedro Cunningham & Anne Maxwell-Foster for Tilton Fenwick

Suysel’s love for all things beautiful started early. She has worked for renowned decorator Markham Roberts, and now lives in New York City with her husband, David, and their daughter, Cecilia.

Anne has worked her way from office assistant to project designer at two prestigious decorating offices: Ashley Whittaker Design and Brockschmidt & Coleman. Anne decided to fully pursue what had immediately connected her and Suysel: a mutual love for distinctive and striking design as well as a life filled with passion, hard work, laughs and delight in the details. Anne lives in New York City with her husband, Ryan, and their precious dog, Dallas.

Tilton Fenwick is a boutique interior design firm and recipient of the “Rising Stars of Interior Design” award by The International Furnishings and Design Association. They were selected to participate in the 2011 Hampton Designer Showhouse and were also chosen as one of Traditional Home Magazine’s 2011 Top 20 “New Traditionals.”


Mae Hacking & Elise Jones for Here in This House

Mae describes herself as a design and fashion enthusiast, who’s always taken an interest in design while working in the retail/fashion industry.

Elise has many, many jobs but describes herself as a keeper of her household. She has no formal training beyond years of living in an antebellum world and a night-school class of interior design.

Here in This House is an outlet for the creative and artistic pursuits Mae & Elise bring into their homes. It is a place to chronicle discoveries, to save ideas for the future (or for others to make use of), and to talk about the things that they make and do.


Jason Oliver Nixon for Demystifying Design

Jason and his blog partner John Loecke describe themselves as the (self-confessed) dynamic duo behind the Brooklyn based interior design firm MADCAP COTTAGE. They are all about the “F” words: fun, frisky, and fun-to-be-around. Their blog is an all-access pass to glorious design, from inspirational to aspirational.

Take a look back at yesterdays post to meet four other bloggers, here. And, check back everyday this week to meet additional bloggers!

For live feeds and updates during Fall Market follow the DDB and our guest bloggers on Twitter:
#ddbmarket @danddbuilding @godesigngo @hereinthishouse @tiltonfenwick @jolivernixon

Meet the Blogger: Ask Patrick J. Hamilton Whatever Your Heart Desires (1 of 2)

The DDB's Fall Market 2011 Bloggers Lounge will be your one stop fix for design and lifestyle. Co-sponsored by GoDesignGo and Editor at Large, the lounge will house 15 bloggers who will be camping out in style covering Market events. We're introducing you to the Bloggers Lounge line-up of Bloggers and today we want you to meet Patrick J. Hamilton of AskPatrick and regular contributor to Apartment Therapy.

Patrick J. Hamilton has no shortage of job titles, which include blogger, interior designer, writer, humorist, activist and stylist living specialist in Manhattan. His blog, AskPatrick, focuses on residential makeovers and interior design industry events. The RISD graduate is also a specialist in small-space solutions unique to Manhattan living, but is comfortable working on projects both large and small.

"I love working with a wide range of styles, from contemporary to traditional," said Patrick. "But like MANY Manhattanites, I live daily with the challenge of smaller spaces. I’m a big fan of tailored, timeless pieces in my own home. And I’m a big fan of texture!"

Patrick's signature approach “Invest, Save & Splurge” plays a large roll in all of his interiors and blog discussion and is known for his innovative and fresh perspective to each project.

"I draw from a wide range of inspiration in my work, creating environments that are functional, comfortable and highly expressive of each individual client," Patrick said. "It’s all about the mix and never about the pedigree."

His work has been seen on HGTV in Small Space, Big Style and Rate My Space, HGTV.com, HouseBeautiful.com, TheKitchn.com, Ohdeedoh.com, and ApartmentTherapy. He was also the winner of Apartment Therapy’s first annual Smallest, Coolest Home contest, and the winner of the first Bloomingdale’s Big Window Challenge. He has styled features and photo shoots for Ladies Home Journal, The Alpha Workshops, and Florida Home & Garden. In the past, Patrick has also worked for Design on a Dime, The Alpha Workshops and the New York Designing Men: It Gets Better video.

He is a New York contributor to ApartmentTherapy, where he shoots and writes House Tours, and has also covered the ICFF, interviewed design world luminaries and covered the second season of HGTV’s Design Star. Patrick also recently appeared in It Gets Better: NYC Designing Men, a video for the It Gets Better Project supporting The Trevor Project.

Stay tuned to GoDesignGo for our interview with Patrick to learn more about Patrick is most looking forward to during the DDB's Fall Market.