Nationally known interior designer joins forces with Pequot Lakes company – Pine and Lakes Echo Journal

PEQUOT LAKES — A Pequot Lakes furniture company has partnered with an award-winning and nationally known interior designer on a furniture line and hosted her for a week in August.

Joanne Palmisano, of Vermont, specializes in hospitality and product design and is the author of three interior design and home decorating books. She has over 250 online do-it-yourself projects for HGTV, DIY Network, Apartment Therapy and other online sites and magazines.

Palmisano discovered

Lonesome Cottage Furniture Company

(known nationally as Fireside Lodge Furniture Company), owned by Brandon and Jill Andersen, at the High Point Furniture Market in North Carolina a year ago while looking for a company to build a furniture line she’d designed for a resort.

She was impressed with their quality and custom work.

The collaboration resulted in six semitruck loads of furniture built at Lonesome Cottage in Pequot Lakes being sent to Clay Brook at Sugarbush Resort in Vermont.

Palmisano was in the Pequot Lakes area to work on the next collection in her collaboration with Lonesome Cottage/Fireside Lodge. That furniture line launched nationally Oct. 1 with a showcase set later this month at the High Point Furniture Market.

Along with the Andersens, Palmisano worked with Sara Pridgen, Jill Andersen’s sister who is the hospitality and interior design/national sales manager for Fireside Lodge Furniture Co.

“Sara and Joanne hit it off marvelously,” Brandon Andersen said. “And we landed one of our larger projects we’ve ever had, doing a large lodge.”

Palmisano said the partnership worked.

“I wanted a modern, rustic feel that was quality built to last and that would fit into the lodge I was working on,” she said. “We created this gorgeous line.”

The line for the resort included beds, dressers, nightstands, coffee tables, desks, side tables and console tables.

The resort approved the line, “and then we ordered a giant amount,” Palmisano said.

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After fulfilling the order for the Vermont resort, they decided to continue the collaboration.

“Sara said, ‘You know, we’d love to have you consider doing a collaboration with us.’ And I called her back and I said, ‘Don’t tease me,'” Palmisano said with a laugh. “That’s literally how it happened.”

They tweaked the furniture line just a bit from what they did for the resort for this month’s national rollout. The hospitality furniture collection is called re.curated, and again is designed by Palmisano and built at Lonesome Cottage.

“The primary focus of this line is to sell to boutique hospitality properties around the country,” Andersen said.

Palmisano liked Fireside Lodge’s focus on American, environmentally friendly and reclaimed products, which is her niche. She was also impressed with the production facility in the Pequot Lakes Industrial Park.

“Going through their production line and meeting all the people here, you can just see how much pride they take in their work and how much work goes into building these pieces,” she said “They are truly built to last.”

She also praised the company’s customer service and willingness to work together.

“It’s a down-to-earth, family-run, truly believe-in-your-product kind of relationship,” Palmisano said. “I feel like this is truly a win-win.”

• Author of four books: “Styling with Salvage,” “Salvage Secrets,” “Salvage Secrets Design & Decor” and “Rock Your Rental.”
• Created a design portfolio for small boutique hospitality spaces, including family-owned resort renovations, mom-and-pop inns restorations, restaurant and pub designs, motel makeovers for small-business owners
• Consulted with larger firms on larger hospitality projects, including large hotel concept design for guest rooms, lobby and restaurants.
• Worked with DIY Network and HGTV.

Source:

www.joannepalmisano.com