SUZANNE LOVELL

For more than twenty years, Suzanne Lovell has been practicing the art of interior design. She holds a professional degree in architecture and is widely recognized as an expert in art, antiques, textiles and furnishings. Prior to working as an architect for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, she studied with Olivio Ferrari at Virginia Tech, the top-ranked architecture program in the country. He was a Bauhaus trained, Swiss-German architect who believed a focus on craft was paramount to the profession. Suzanne's extensive travels have exposed her to design and craftspeople from across the globe, lending her work a multicultural influence. Ms. Lovell has long been respected for the intelligent integration of architectural interiors with sophisticated furnishings, textiles and art.

Suzanne Lovell is principal of Suzanne Lovell Inc, a Chicago-based architectural interior design firm specializing in residential interior architecture, design and decoration. The firm takes a thoughtful and rigorous approach to design by employing extensive research with meticulous attention to detail. Her vast portfolio of work has not gone unnoticed as Suzanne has been featured in a variety of publications and was included in Architectural Digest's New List, AD100: The World's Top Designers and Architects. Suzanne works in both her Manhattan studio and her corporate headquarters in Chicago.

In addition, Ms. Lovell, along with Sam Kasten, one of America's foremost hand weavers of custom fabrics and rugs, launched Twill Textiles. Twill is a sophisticated line of mill produced fabrics that resonate with the look and feel of handmade product. Suzanne is now able to combine her passion for weaving as craft, her design background, her architectural skill and her business acumen, to create textile collections. Her intention for the growth of Twill is to showcase textiles influenced by weaving traditions from a variety of global cultures.

Suzanne resides in Chicago with her husband and two children. Fly fishing and bicycling take her on adventures around the world that lend directly to her designs through color, texture, proportion and scale.