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Top 40 Most Inspiring Women In Home - As Named By Home Furnishings Business Magazine

For The Historical Record: The world's first all virtual showhouse debuted 3 years ago this month. This was a project of my company, Savour Partnership, for my then client, Gary Pettitt, CEO of Seasonal Living Trading Company. It was an influencer marketing program with 11 participating designers and 15 sponsoring brands. I onboarded the designers and the brands were onboarded by myself and Gary, via dozens of Zoom meetings during the first year of Covid, 2020. The link to the Virtual Showhouse has been redone, and I invite you all to take the tour here: https://lnkd.in/gNbZ9cRA It was a feat of enormous technical difficulty. Thank you: Annilee B Waterman, CPBD, RID - for designing the interior and exterior architecture from your imagination, via the brief given to you by Gary. Sarah Durnez - for working so very hard on 3D modeling everything everyone will see in the Showhouse, with an assist by Lauren Brantley, MA. I hope you 3 will always be remembered for this feat of technical brilliance. See the participating designers and brands in the first two comments and realize: THEY MADE HISTORY. The designers were the very first ever to take on a challenge like this, and the brands were the very first to agree to sponsor something that had never been done before. THAT is #thoughtleadership #innovation. FYI: The Showhouse is on a new platform, which previously existed on another platform that was more difficult to navigate. What you are seeing below is the living room that Carla Aston designed for the Showhouse - keep in mind that this room doesn’t exist > this has all been 3D modeled & rendered by Sarah Durnez. #virtualcollaboration #virtualevent #designershowhouse #hpmkt #andmorehpmkt #lvmkt #dallasmarket #lightovation #iloveids #asid #kbis2024 #businessofhome #BOHinsider #interiordesigners Savour Partnership - innovation in digital marketing for interior designers and brands within home related industries.

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Leslie Carothers

Top 40 Most Inspiring Women In Home - As Named By Home Furnishings Business Magazine

8mo

These are the 15 brave brands who said "Yes" to sponsoring something that had never been done before. They had no visual to go on..they simply went on faith that we would deliver. Thank you, Neil MacKenzie, Brian Berk, Beverly Kastel, Robin Baron, Patty Dominguez, Zach Elkin, John Dupra, Tina Nicole +++. I hope your thought leadership will always be remembered.

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Leslie Carothers

Top 40 Most Inspiring Women In Home - As Named By Home Furnishings Business Magazine

8mo

The participating designers were: Arianne Bellizaire Laura Muller Ariana Lovato, AKBD, CLIPP [ kitchen ] Robin Baron Erika Ward Gloribell Lebron Jeanne Chung [ who took on the entire upstairs ] Rachel Moriarty Carla Aston Veronica Solomon I hope all of these designers will always be remembered for being THE FIRST. Thank you all for so much work when you had no idea what you were getting into!

Caroline Hipple

Chief Creative Officer , Hooker Furnishings

8mo

Innovation is your middle name, Ms Leslie. And thank you for that!

Beverly Kastel

Marketing and Branding Leader

8mo

Thank you Leslie! You are always ahead of the curve! Happy to have been a part of this special project!

Lauren Brantley, MA

Professor | Interior Designer | Lafayette, IN

8mo

Thank you Leslie Carothers for the kind mention in this post. It was a pleasure to be apart of this project; a great opportunity I will always remember.

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