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"Internationally Renowned Interior Designer Courtney Sloane Featured On “Material World”"
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"Material World” Aired In Over 48 Countries – Show Is An International Hit!
Courtney Sloane, President and Founder of Courtney Sloane, Inc. and Alternative Design, Inc., has gained international attention as a cast member on the reality television show “Material World” airing on the Discovery Home Channel in U.S. and on the Travel and Living Network internationally. The show featured internationally known designers who took viewers on irreverent, voyeuristic romps through the spectacular world of high-end interior design in the homes of the super-rich, from the Hamptons to the Hollywood Hills. The series aired in 48 countries worldwide and revolved around the glamour and glitz, huge budgets, demanding clients, and the teams of high-end designers who serve them. The show had its U.S. debut on July 2, 2006 on the Discovery Home Channel and continues to air on network on Sundays at 7 p.m. EST. For additional information go to www.discovery.com.
Following her worldwide television debut, the award-winning international interior designer, whose extraordinary sense of style and aesthetics have cast her influence into the worlds of entertainment, media and popular culture, transforming her into a “cultural trendsetter,” has now announced the fall launch of her new design consultation service, the Total Design Prescription. Courtney has always believed that great design is democratic and should be accessible to all; this is the mission of her design consultation. Thanks to this program, everyone can partner with Courtney to help make their design dreams a reality. For more information go to www.courtneysloane.net.
About Courtney Sloane
Sloane has won unanimous praise from a roster of clients who range from well-known personalities (Queen Latifah, Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, Damon Dash, among many others) to some of the world’s biggest corporations (Sony Music, Disney, The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, BET, Essence Communications, Fila/Enyce, Def Jam Vibe Magazine), just to name a few.
For her many and varied achievements in the competitive world of design, Courtney Sloane has been featured on the covers and recognized by New York magazine (as one of its elite “99 New Yorkers of 1999”), Interiors and Interior & Sources magazines, House Beautiful (who named her “one of the nation’s top 101 designers” for three consecutive years, 1997 to 1999), the Decorating & Design Building (who named her as one of the “emerging designers of the millennium”). Sloane works have been the focus of coverage in The New York Times, O, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle Décor, Hamptons, HG&C, Essence, Lucky, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Daily Variety. The Washington Times declared Courtney Sloane to be “way ahead of the pack… truly a designer for the millennium.”
In 1996, Courtney Sloane began a three-year stint as contributing editor at Essence magazine, dispensing advice and informational services in her monthly column, “By Design.” Another publication benefited from her expertise, when the renovation of Vibe’s Lexington Avenue offices won New York magazine’s Best Lobby In New York City award for 1996. That same year, Courtney Sloane won her first major award from Philadelphia’s prestigious Moore College Of Art & Design, honored alongside noted women designers Clodagh, Eva Jiricna, Debra Lehman-Smith, and Lauren Rottet. It was a significant commendation for the young African-American Jersey girl, in the company of senior members of her profession with decades of background experience between them. In 1997, she became a member of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum’s Professional Designers Advisory Committee.
As the work continues, Courtney Sloane has begun to “give back” to the community, via philanthropic activities and various non-profit ventures. After being chosen by DIFFA/Steuben as one of eight designers to create vignettes representing Steuben glass for display in May 2000 at the opening of the flagship store in Manhattan, she later participated in numerous DIFFA events to benefit AIDS. She was chosen to design the Arthur Ashe Institute For Urban Health annual commemorative award that honors contributors to sports, health and humanity. She serves as benefit chair of the African-American Design Archive of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in New York.
On the academic side, Sloane was educated at Rutgers University, the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), and Pratt Institute. She has presided on the Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Advisory Board since 1999. She was Principal For A Day (a PENCIL program) at Manhattan West Art Institute and keynote speaker at their graduation ceremonies in May-June 2000, respectively. Her work was featured in several books (and exhibit) including Women Designers In the USA 1900-2000: Diversity And Difference, produced by the Bard Graduate Center For Studies In the Decorative Arts. She has served as guest speaker at many design schools including New York School Of Interior Design and was invited to do the esteem Hiller lecture by the Design & Environmental Analysis Department at Cornell University (where the topic was “Making A Difference By Design”).
Gwendolyn Quinn
President
GQ Media & Public Relations, Inc.
1650 Broadway
Suite 1011
New York, New York 10019
212-765-7910 (office)
212-765-7905 (fax)
877-765-7910 (toll free number)
gwendolynquinn@aol.com
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