Nourison is the leading multi-category resource in today’s floor covering market. Our company offers comprehensive programs from signature handmade area rug collections such as Nourison 2000, to prestige designer lines like Calvin Klein, to the best-selling powerloom carpets of Ashton House, to the Grand Parterre collection which represents an unparalleled level of luxury and sophistication in broadloom construction. Throughout the United States and Europe, prominent retailers rely on Nourison for merchandise assortments recognized for their unique combination of beauty, craftsmanship, and value in virtually every price and construction category. With a consistent and monumental backup inventory on over 4500 sku’s. Our guest is Giovanni Marra, Marketing Director for Nourison. Explore Nourison's Website here Also in this episode: Kristin Drohan, one of America’s most versatile interior designers, offers complete design services and her own furniture line to elite clients throughout the country. Kristin, whose work has appeared in print and on-line publications nationwide, works with industry leaders of Fortune 500 companies, financial executives, technology company managers, doctors, corporate attorneys and other leading professionals from Boston to Atlanta. Kristin’s furniture line, which features a collection of durable, eco-friendly pieces ranging from sofas and sectionals to beds, tables and chairs, is featured in high end showrooms across the country. The furniture is manufactured in Hickory, NC using natural, toxic-free materials. Kristin offers a full range of interior design services, ranging from space planning and project management to kitchen and bath renovation and selection of fabrics and flooring. She is backed by a team of some of the country’s leading workroom professionals, window fashion specialists, contractors, installers, lighting designers and others. Her work has been showcased internationally in Mix Magazine and in such outlets as the Washington Post, House Trends Magazine, New England Home, New York Spaces, Justluxe and Decorati. She also was featured in a Washington, D.C.-area designer show house. Kristin’s 10 years of sales and management experience with major companies earlier in her career enables her to communicate more effectively with her high level, corporate clientele. She has had the opportunity to reside in a variety of locations around the country, a fact which has exposed her to and educated her about a variety of design styles and trends. She has built and/or remodeled seven of her own homes. She is one of the first 100 interior design professionals to be certified with the Sustainable Furnishing Council, a coalition of suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and other dedicated to promote eco-friendly furnishings. Kristin studied at the Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, OH. Check out her website at Kristin Drohan Paula Grace is a Top 100 Designer selected by Home and Design Magazine and named as one of the Best Interior Designers in the DC Area by CBS/DC. Her designs both, interior and furnishings, Signature Grace™ by Paula Grace Designs, have been published regionally and nationally. Paula Grace started her firm 11 years ago growing slowly as her daughter was young until the Paula Grace Designs, Inc. of today.  Now Paula Grace has three arms to her practice - interior design, product design, and speaking engagements and consulting. Paula Grace recently concluded a national speaking tour with Century Furniture – the topic – how designers form and maintain productive professional relationships with their clients. In October of this year, Paula Grace, along with three other DC designers, launched a showroom open to the public and trade in the luxury shopping destination for the DC area. Her furnishings are also regularly featured by Dering Hall,