When it comes to interior design, Vita Huang brings an international perspective. Based at our Richmond Design Center, British Columbia, Canada, Vita is fluent in both English and Mandarin. (more…)

Meet Manuella Moreira, our Featured Designer of the month! Manuella is one of the talented designers at our Flatiron Design Center in New York City. We caught up with her recently to ask a few questions about her work. (more…)

Meet Ally Fountain, our Featured Designer of the month! Ally is one of the talented designers at our Bellevue, Washington, Design Center. We caught up with her recently to ask a few questions about her work. (more…)

For someone so visual, so image-driven—someone who knew from the age of 7 that she wanted to be an artist (“I thought I would get to wear a beret and hold a paint palette.”)—Karen Pease Marino certainly has a way with words. (more…)

It’s a long way from Poland to Passaic, New Jersey. And yet you’d never know it by talking to Krystian Kolano, a guy who’s perfectly at ease in a job he clearly loves at the busy Ethan Allen manufacturing facility just across the river from New York City.

Krystian’s journey to America began at age 14 when he moved with his parents and younger brother from their home in Wilcza Wola, a village in southeastern Poland. They settled in Garfield, New Jersey, and while it was worlds away, Krystian found his niche. He made friends, played soccer, and attended high school (where he met his future wife, Agnieszka, whom he married in July). He graduated from Bergen Community College with a degree in accounting, and worked for a moving company until an Ethan Allen help-wanted ad caught his eye. (more…)

Ethan Allen has always been “all in the family” for Roxanne Wright.

But although “everyone” in her family worked for the company, including her parents and grandparents, the pleasant Ethan Allen veteran—a production scheduler who also oversees inventory control in our Orleans, Vermont, manufacturing plant—never planned to stay. (more…)

Blake Lackey’s coworkers have described him as upbeat, courteous, and a “genuinely kind and conscientious young man.” Unsurprisingly, Blake—a product engineering technician at Ethan Allen’s Pine Valley plant in Old Fort, North Carolina—doesn’t take himself too seriously.

The work that Blake does is an integral part of the Ethan Allen story. He says he’s a “middleman,” but his role is more complex than that. It’s his job to deconstruct a product idea and plan out its manufacture. “We take a model from the design group at our corporate headquarters and break it into manufactured pieces,” he explains. “We then create the machinery necessary to make those pieces.” Once manufactured, the furniture parts are also assembled at the plant, so Blake and his associates witness the entire process as it unfolds—“from design plan to finished piece.” (more…)

Trend alert! Décor that features mythological creatures gets its moment to shine—and we’re slayed by how beautifully it coordinates with a variety of styles! (more…)

Alec Waters is standing in the 30,000-square-foot Ethan Allen photo studio in New Milford, CT, telling secrets: He’s revealing his part in making beautiful rooms come to life. Today, a photographer is shooting down from a loft space, camera fixed on a podium, aimed at a raised platform below, where an area rug lies perfectly flat, under lighting that is perfectly even. Alec explains how they built the platform to facilitate shooting the heavy rugs (and rigged it to fold up against the wall when not in use).

Another day. Another problem solved. (more…)

You could call it serendipity. But that would only be part of Carolina Pascua’s story. Indeed, Pascua was in the right place at the right time when Ethan Allen ventured into Honduras in early 2011 to explore the possibility of opening a manufacturing plant there. (more…)