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Suzanne B. Allen & Company Design, LLC
strives to create design with unusual comfort as well as great style
to delight the most discerning eye, executed with meticulous attention to detail.

The Firm offers:
A collection of Furniture with Personality^TM designed by Suzanne Allen, 18th and 19th century Antiques selected in Europe by Suzanne Allen Interior Architecture, and Design for residential and commercial clients.

Inspired by her 25 years of "digging" in Europe, Suzanne Allen has developed a style that offers a uniquely appealing combination of classical proportion, romantic curves, sumptuously sculptural surfaces, and a subtle palette of color and texture. Designs are conceived and executed with unusual and extensive detailing of everything from architectural woodwork to upholstery, practical kitchen design and luscious gardens.

Suzanne is among the few designers with a strong decorative arts training and sensitivity to architectural integrity; she not only understands interior decoration, but how to put it together in a fresh and unexpected way with architecture, furniture, light, and ergonomics.
The result is design with an easy, distinctive, graceful and handsome elegance,
with a depth and substance clients savor for years.

Suzanne Allen began her career as a designer at age 6;  her early training in antiques, decorative arts and design began the next year.  Her professional career began at McMillen, Inc. in New York, where she worked with Louis Rey and Betty Sherrill. Her design projects have often involved complete interior gutting and redesign, and have ranged from the design of workspaces and trading floor with fiber optics for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Bank in New York to the interior design of the Washington residence of a senior Saudi Prince.

Suzanne Allen founded the Firm in New York in 1980 to provide a full service design team devoted to delivering the details of planning, execution, and service,  as well as the inspiration needed to conceive and deliver the highest quality design. Great style, always with a subtle but unusual twist, and a commitment to quality and service has enabled the Firm to quietly build a customer list for its Furniture which includes most of the top interior designers in the U.S., as well as a widely admired interior design practice.

The firm's interiors and furniture design have been featured in publications including:
House & Garden, House Beautiful, Elle Décor, Veranda, Southern Accents,
Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Homes,  and The New York Times.

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What customers are saying about Suzanne Allen Design

"Every time I walk into one of your rooms, it makes my eyes dance."
- a design client in the Southeast

"Your Lyon chair is the best looking chair in America."
- well-known New York designer

"My favorite chair (The Napoleon III Tufted Chair)."
- says another well-known New York designer

"Scrumptiously divine design with extreme comfort. "
- says a long-time Interior Design client in the Northeast

"Our chair is beautiful!
My customer says it is the most comfortable chair she has ever sat in."
- a designer in New Jersey

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Our Collection of European-Inspired Furniture with "Great Style"

Sister Parish once said, "every room needs a personality chair." Easier said than done.
Today's top designers are familiar with the challenge: except for a few hard-to-find antiques,
there is almost nothing really neat in the market, even in "To The Trade" showrooms.

Suzanne B. Allen & Company Design, LLC has created a handsome collection of
upholstery, tables, mirrors, etc, based on some of the most unique furniture that
Suzanne has designed and collected over the years,
updated for modern usage and produced for sale "To The Trade Only".
As Sister Parish suggests, each piece has charm,
character and actually starts conversations.
Suzanne affectionately calls these "great lookers you can live with."

Inspired by twenty-five years of "digging" for 18th and 19th century antiques in Western Europe
and with an eye for the unusual in character and scale, Suzanne has created
a collection of graceful furniture with personality to delight and inspire.
The designs are refined yet with playful movement to delight the eye.

They offer distinctive lines, pitch perfect proportion and scale,
luxurious comfort, and many delightfully unusual details.

While Classically-influenced, each piece is versatile -
so an architect or designer can easily adapt them to modern as well as traditional spaces.

Ten new designs were released in early 2003 to take the collection in some wonderful new directions.
Sneak previews have already produced great accolades from the select designers in New York.
Suzanne B. Allen & Company Design, LLC is dedicated to providing the utmost in
style, quality and comfort, delivered with exceptional service.
All designs are hand-made, hand-finished and in stock, available immediately.
Upholstery is executed in the traditional European manner (i.e., 8-way hand-tied coiled springs).
Traditional horse hair and numerous trimming applications are available.

To sit in one of our upholstered pieces is to enjoy true comfort.

The Company's furniture is available "To The Trade Only"
through Christopher Norman in New York and Los Angeles, or directly through the Firm.

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18th & 19th c. European Antiques & Our Custom-Designed Furniture

Suzanne B. Allen & Company Design, LLC, maintains a selection
of late 18th and early 19th century French, Swedish, English and Italian antiques
personally selected by Suzanne Allen with an eye for the unusual in character and scale
and available to the trade at our headquarters in Athens, Georgia.

The Firm also offers uniquely handsome sofas, chairs, tables, lamps, shades, fabrics, etc.,
custom designed and fabricated to meet the specific requirements of each client.
As with the Firm's collection of new furniture for sale "To The Trade Only",
sumptuous comfort; delightful line, scale and proportion; unique details in upholstery,
and paintwork are the hallmarks of our antiques collection and custom designed furniture.

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Interior Architecture and Design Practice

Suzanne B. Allen & Company Design, LLC was established in New York 1980
to offer residential and commercial clients a full-service design team with a highly developed sense of style,
knowledgeable in a complete vocabulary of stylistic approaches.

Our purpose is to help each client realize their specific needs; addressing lifestyle,
geographic location and architectural integrity.
The Company adheres to the philosophy of seamless integration of architecture and interior design,
employing the highest quality of materials and furnishings,
coupled with inventive interpretations of traditional
as well as contemporary detailing and craftsmanship.
Our design work reflects careful consideration of both design and practicality,
with careful planning and management of the project from design through installation.
The result is handsome and comfortable, carefully - executed interiors with really great style -
a continuous delight to the eye yet comfortable to live with.


Examples of recently completed design projects include:
Morristown, NJ Complete interior & furniture design of an historic house including a divine dining room for a couple from Toronto She is a serial entrepreneur in the insurance industry, he a corporate attorney turned musician - who love to cook and entertain. This historic house features a custom canvas mural accented with subtle acid-green silk curtains and wonderful 18th century antiques. Every item (except antiques and furniture from the Suzanne Allen collection) was custom designed and fabricated to accommodate the owners eclectic tastes, busy lifestyle, modern art collection, and a high tech music studio.

Athens, GA 1920's Neo-Classical. Four separate construction projects Architectural redesign of the original structure and subsequent additions with complete custom interior design of all items throughout for a busy couple - he an entrepreneur, she an accomplished fund raiser - with an unusual art collection and love of entertaining indoors and in the gardens. From the "before", three tiny separate rooms in the original were transformed into a handsome, practical and functional kitchen for day to day family life and large-scale entertaining, with an adjoining, but separate library/family room. The master bedroom was redesigned from a small guest room and tiny bath into a large, light-filled suite with an adjoining garden and large limestone bath. Finally, an added wing with wonderful architectural porch, pool room and wine cellar . . . all a delight to the eye and where every square foot is enjoyed daily.

Athens, GA 1940's Georgian-style with interior architectural redesign, several garden "rooms" outside, and custom interior design throughout. An accomplished gourmet who enjoys nothing more than a spontaneous repast for 12, she is also a serious Garden Club of America gardener. The original very large living room was designed and constructed as a personal museum for a collection of rare antiques, displayed against the walls in the 1940's and 1950's. The addition of bookcases with grand architecture, the use of several supremely comfortable seating groups with very good European antiques sprinkled everywhere and unusual paintwork have created a warm and intimate everyday space, which also regularly accommodates groups from small to very large.

Atlanta, GA Complete architectural and interior redesign of 1920's Georgian house. She is an entrepreneur who found a neat but "falling in" structure. In less than 24 hours, Suzanne designed the transformation of the wreck into one of the most desirable "hidden treasures" in the city through judicious architectural changes and her design throughout. A great French-flavored kitchen and smashing Living Room with two fireplaces, great Italian & French antique furniture and miles of books in superbly detailed bookcases.


Examples of Current Architecture and Interior Design projects include:
Athens, GA Classical-style guesthouse: architecture, interiors, and gardens for an accomplished gourmet and gardener "Downsizing from the main house (where the children will soon live) to an amazingly gracious guest house. Key to continuing her love of entertaining, the dining room will remain sizable for large numbers, the living room will accommodate 20 seated with 30 feet of floor to ceiling handsome bookcases, and a large bedroom with an 18th century French canopy bed, all of which will open onto a large terrace with genuine French doors, sited on axis with the main house with a large garden between to provide both a great space and privacy for all.

Chester County, PA Architecture, interior, and garden design for an addition to 1700's stone farmhouse for a professional couple with two young children He is a widely published biomedical researcher who loves to cook, she has created a nationally recognized set of programs to encourage and assist girls interested in careers in science. The challenge is balance the desire for space (to expand in, since the old house has typically small rooms) and the need for a modern, large efficient kitchen/family room, with the architecture of the original structure and presence of out buildings that present a spatial dilemma.

Bald Head Island, NC Complete design of interior architecture and interior design for an island summerhouse accessible only by boat. The entrepreneurial couple plan to "relax" and entertain often,
yet minimize their effort with "bullet proof", "no maintenance" interiors.
The challenge? Suzanne Allen style and comfort on a "Crate and Barrel" budget.
Stay tuned!

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Suzanne B. Allen

Inspired by her years of "digging" in Europe for 18th and 19th antiques,
Suzanne Allen has developed a unique style that offers a wonderfully appealing combination
of Classical proportions, romantic curves, sumptuously sculptural surfaces,
and unusual detailing of everything from curtain poles and pelments
to murals, upholstery, cabinetry, kitchen design and garden design.

Suzanne is among the few designers who not only understand interior decoration and decorative arts,
but architecture, furniture, lighting, and comfort. Suzanne's design is accessible to the customer
yet unexpected to the trained eye. Her conception and execution of an overall design and supporting details provide
a handsome richness, depth and substance that the customer continues to discover and savor over many years.

Suzanne has been steeped in architecture and design since birth.
Born and raised in the South amidst Classical architecture and antiques, she has traveled widely since birth.
By age six she knew she wanted to be a designer,
when she and her best friend drew and water colored houses and interiors.
Suzanne received her first specialized design education at age seven,
while "digging" through antiques shops with her mother and aunt,
who would challenge her to find "the one great thing" at each shop.
Since college, Suzanne has made hundreds of research trips to museums and to visit her sources
for antiques all over Western Europe to make purchases for clients and resale.

Suzanne spent her early years in the design profession in New York, where she began
her professional career with McMillen in New York, working with Louis Rey and Betty Sherrill.
Her design projects have often involved complete interior gutting and redesign,
and have ranged from the design of workspaces and trading floor fiber optics for Manufacturers Hanover in New York
to the interior design of the Washington residence of a senior Saudi Prince.

During her years in New York, Suzanne realized that there was very little furniture available
that met her needs for both great comfort and unusual style,
and so began to have her own furniture designs custom fabricated for design clients.
After six years in New York, Suzanne returned to the South,
and launched her design firm in Atlanta, Suzanne B. Allen & Company Design, LLC.

In 1996, after 20 years of custom designing furniture for her clients,
Suzanne realized that there must be many discerning designers who would be thrilled
to have access to her really neat furniture designs, and in 1997 launched her first collection of furniture
"To The Trade" at Christopher Norman in New York.

Since then, her Company has provided designs to clientele that includes most of the most respected designers in the US,
who depend upon Suzanne B. Allen & Company Design, LLC for furniture with warmth, character and charm,
unique and unusual design; exquisitely crafted, elegantly styled, incomparably detailed; and unmatched service.

Suzanne's interior design work has been featured in periodicals including:
House & Garden, Veranda, Southern Accents, the New York Times, Atlanta Magazine,
and in books including: Classic Atlanta and The South;

Our "To The Trade" furniture has been published in:
House & Garden, Elle Decor, Veranda, Southern Accents, The New York Times.

Suzanne is a graduate of Ashley Hall in Charleston, S.C. and the University of Georgia
and continued her formal design education at Parsons and Harvard.
An outstanding flower arranger and active member of the Garden Club of America,
Suzanne also devotes her time to help with efforts such as the restoration of Schutze's Swann House in Atlanta,
the Institute of Classical Architecture in New York and the Decorative Arts Board of the Georgia Museum of Art,
where she is currently working on plans for a large exhibit of Southern Piedmont Furniture and a Decorative Arts Forum for 2005.

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Randolph Taylor

Behind great Design, invisible to the client,
there is meticulous planning
and management of numerous highly specialized craftspeople.

Randy Taylor joined the firm in 2001, bringing his 20+ years experience
in "high tech" marketing, operations and strategy
- along with a lifelong interest in the decorative and fine arts -
to the "high touch" business of Design.
Educated at MIT and The Wharton School of Business,
Randy was a fine art photographer in prior to his first involvement in technology startups in 1978.