3/12/24

It’s 17 years this month since Carolina Gentry and Beth Dotolo based Pulp Design Studios! We will hardly imagine how the time has flown by. We’ve completed a lot and have celebrated some BIG milestones, so we thought we’d spotlight 17 of our most fun moments at Pulp. And keep tuned, now we have even larger plans for our future!

1. Increasing to Seattle

Do you know that we began out collectively in Dallas? Beth moved to Seattle to open a second location just a few years after Pulp launched, and it has been a tremendous transfer that expanded the attain of our enterprise.

2. D Dwelling’s Greatest Designers

This month additionally marks the fifth 12 months in a row that Pulp has been named one of many high design companies in Dallas! That’s an enormous honor and we’re so grateful to our purchasers and to D Dwelling for recognizing us annually.

3. Pulp’s Cloth Collections

In 2018, we had been thrilled to launch our first material assortment with S. Harris, impressed by journey and journey. It’s been in style past our expectations! And we had been so excited to launch a second assortment for the business and contract world quickly after. Additionally FYI – lots of our materials can be found as wallcoverings and completed items, too!

4. Kips Bay Dallas

There are moments that actually push a design agency to a brand new stage and Kips Bay Dallas undoubtedly did that for us. Pulp was assigned a clumsy house that included 2 rooms joined by a hallway and loo. We love design challenges so we made the many of the inside house with a Clever & Depraved theme, showcasing a house workplace for a busy feminine entrepreneur and a hidden “sinner’s den” the place she might spend her down time letting free! The inventive outcome undoubtedly had folks speaking and we acquired numerous press for our design.

5. Pulp Properties

The Pulp duo is at all times considering out of the field, strategizing new methods to take advantage of our skills in numerous arenas. So we not too long ago created a brand new division known as Pulp Properties. Below that division, we opened a shoppable trip rental in Palm Springs and a business property in Dallas. The Dallas constructing homes women-led inventive companies, together with our personal Pulp workplace. Search for this division to increase much more within the coming months!

6. DXV Design

One other pivotal second for Pulp was once we had been requested by DXV to be a part of its Design Panel in 2016. We had been requested to create a rest room with merchandise from DXV that will additionally pay homage to an iconic cities. Apparently, we had been assigned Palm Springs, which after all we liked. That midcentury trendy lavatory design helped showcase our signature adventurous fashion and actually made a giant splash within the design world when it was featured in DXV’s nationwide advert marketing campaign.

7. Advisors and Ambassadors

With a forward-thinking method to each commerce and creativity, Pulp has established a singular viewpoint that mixes luxurious design with a aptitude for the sudden. And that has meant that many manufacturers have turned to us to symbolize them and to information their future methods. We’ve been honored to function advisors and ambassadors for Home Lovely, Ann Sacks, Thermador, NKBA, DXV, and extra.

8. Award Winners

With regards to beautiful rooms, Pulp has been honored to obtain many awards for its creativity and elegance. These embrace the Luxe Purple Awards, the Grey Awards, and awards from Trendy Luxurious. In truth, we’re finalists this 12 months for just a few Grey awards, which shall be introduced in only a week (fingers crossed)!

9. Pulp Strikes Out

Pulp Design Studios works all throughout the nation and we’ve not too long ago expanded with new places of work in Los Angeles, Lubbock, and Portland. We’re thrilled to have purchasers from Tennessee to Hawaii to New York, and all over the place in between. With our 5 places of work, we are able to deal with tasks in any location.

10. Haute {Hardware}

It’s wonderful to consider immediately, however the one factor that actually began all of our product design and licensed collections was slightly star. We had been in search of a really particular {hardware} design and will by no means discover it. So we designed it! And immediately that Starburst Pull remains to be a BIG vendor for Pulp, now out there in 4 fabulous finishes.

11. Kismet Assortment

From that {hardware} assortment, Pulp launched the Kismet Lounge line in 2017. It options textiles, throws, coasters, candles, and extra. Motifs embrace an Eye of Ra, the Gemini faces which are impressed by our founding duo, and the Icon sample, from our personal Pulp brand!

12. Launching ICON

Talking of an icon, we took our personal path in 2019 and launched an in-house journal known as ICON! This beautiful and shiny publication – on its eleventh challenge! – showcases Pulp’s newest tasks, affords improbable design and residential ideas, and provides perception into how the inside design course of unfolds. Search for a brand new challenge that shall be out this spring!

13. Commercially Talking

Pulp isn’t simply recognized for residential design. Our groups have additionally crafted interiors for workplace areas, eating places, wineries, and extra. We deliver our out-of-the field designs to any mission!

14. Conventional Dwelling Showhouse

One factor most individuals don’t notice is that you haven’t any management over what house you’re assigned in a showhome. Generally you get a difficult space of the home, but it surely’s what you do with it that makes ALLLL the distinction! Once we had been assigned an entry and stairwell for the Conventional Dwelling showhouse in Dallas, we introduced that iconic daring fashion that we’re recognized for. It created a showstopper second earlier than visitors had been even 10 ft into the home!

15. Pulp TV

Video was a HUGE gamechanger for the Pulp workforce. We had been early adopters of the medium, that includes interviews with our purchasers, walkthroughs of our tasks, and behind-the-scenes seems at our product and inside design processes. Pulp TV is a part of our media arm that features our in style weblog and ICON journal.

16. Better of the Press

Pulp has acquired SO a lot editorial protection over our 17-year historical past and we’re pleased with each single piece. A few of the wonderful press we’ve acquired contains Architectural Digest, Conventional Dwelling, Elle Decor, Veranda, Home Lovely, Forbes, Wall Road Journal, Luxe and PaperCity.

17. Design Guide Function

Pulp’s Clever & Depraved house was showcased in Carl Dellatore’s Extra is Extra is Extra: Right now’s Maximalist Interiors from Rizzoli. Our house was undoubtedly maximalist, and we liked being featured in such an iconic e-book. And as for future books … keep tuned!

Thanks for following us and serving to us have a good time 17 improbable years. We sit up for huge and daring strikes within the years to return!