Eddie Ross Featured Guest Curator at Etsy Today

Photo: Jaithan Kochar

Top Design Season Two contestant Eddie Ross is spotlighted today on The Storque. Eddie selects his personal favorites from among etsy's amazing offerings.

From the Mailbox

The leading lights of the design world descended on Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries Monday evening for a cocktail party and auction preview co-hosted by Christie’s and ELLE DECOR. Guests browsed through galleries highlighted by paint colors by event co-sponsor Ralph Lauren Paint and admired furniture, fine art, and decorative objects to be featured in the auction house’s two-day Interiors sale on April 1 & 2. Read more here.

Pictured: Nathan Thomas and Margaret Russell

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Nathan Thomas is interviewed over at Design*Sponge. And offers a tantalizing little tid-bit about his latest foray into television!

Eddie Ross' online empire has expanded to include a fantastic vintage finds shop on Etsy.

Jonathan Adler Does Barbie

TD lead judge Jonathan Adler is part of the big Barbie 50th Birthday Bash. Click here to see images of the real life Malibu Beach House designed by Adler. And, there's even a Project Runway tie in!

Nathan Thomas' DWR Challenge: How'd he do?

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Nathan Thomas' DWR Challenge

Nathan Thomas Design Challenge at Design Within Reach, NYC
Thursday, February 12, 7:30-9:30pm

Nathan Thomas will be faced with a new design challenge at Design Within Reach's Upper West Side location. His brief? Create a warm and welcoming personal work space using the items on hand. The twist? DWR will throw in a few curve ball pieces sourced from local Housing Works (www.housingworks.org/) thrift store. After Nathan presents the results of his inspired choosing and combining, there will be time for questions and to meet the him.

Click here for more.

Image from NathanThomasStudios.com

Eddie Ross on BlogTalk Radio

Eddie Ross will be appearing on Olivia Wild's Blog Talk Radio show tonight! Sunday, February 9th at 9:00PM EST. Click here to listen! The show will be archived in case you missed it.

Ondine Karady in the Washington Post

Read the story here.

Margaret Russell and Eddie Ross at the CFDA Auction

Bloomingdale’s Chairman and CEO Michael Gould and ELLE DECOR Editor-in-Chief Margaret Russell co-hosted the Right-Off-the-Runway Designer Chair Auction, held by Bloomingdale’s, Bernhardt, and The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) on Bloomingdale’s 59th Street new furniture floor on January 28.

The charitable silent auction featured nine one-of-a-kind designer chairs to benefit the CFDA Foundation, including designs created by such esteemed designers as Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, Monique Lhuillier, Ralph Lauren, Zac Posen, Anna Sui and Diane von Furstenberg.

Each of the nine designers took a traditional Bernhardt “Bloomingdale’s” chair and created a special piece inspired by their own spring 2009 runway collections. In addition, Bloomingdale’s will create its own limited edition version of the chair to be sold in the store, from which a portion of the proceeds of sales will benefit the CFDA Foundation.

Nathan Thomas Feature in Elle Decor

The March issue (now on newsstands) of Elle Decor features Nathan Thomas's winning design. Click here for more information. Congratulations again Nathan!

From the Mailbox

Season 1 contestant Erik Kolacz and his firm participated in the Chicago Merchandise Mart 2008 Dream Home. They designed the beautiful foyer above. Click here to read more.


Ondine Karady has been on a media roll this month and shared with us this full page spread in the February 2009 issue of Cosmopolitan!

From the Mailbox

Ondine Karady will be featured in the February issue of Cosmo and the March 2009 issue of Traditional Home (see image above).

And, most exciting - Ondine was one of an assuredly small and highly select group of designers asked to submit their portfolios to the office of a certain Mrs. O! While she was not ultimately selected (that honor went to designer Michael Smith), it must have been an huge thrill to be asked!!

And, speaking of the political - here are Ondine and Andrea Schroder - both looking gorgeous of course - attending the Huffington Post Pre-inaugural ball. Ondine was right on trend with her bright yellow clutch (yellow is the color of the year!) Check out Andrea's blog for more inauguration images.

Top Design Mini Reunion

Eddie Ross took his now famous flea market shopping tour on the road last weekend to Atlanta. And, who did he get to spend time with? Two TD Season 2 favorites - Kerry Howard and Natalie Williams! Click here for Eddie's sneak peek into Kerry's lovely home.

From the Mailbox

Andrea Schroder is appearing on Blog Talk radio on January 11th at 9:00PM EST. Click here for more information.


Eddie Ross has taken his flea market tours on the road with a trip to Scott's in Atlanta. Looks like he'll be visiting with Kerry Howard and Natalie Williams while he's there!