Recently completed projects include the Lexus Hybrid Living Suites at Fairmont Hotels in San Francisco and Washington DC, as well as the Venice Beach Eco Cottages. Her work has also been featured at DIFFA's "Dining By Design" and the Jane Goodall Institute's 30th Anniversary Celebration in Los Angeles. Currently, she is working on residental projects across the country and a new restaurant in Pasadena, California.
At her by-appointment-only Atelier in Venice Beach, LaPlante and her staff offer vintage, antique and sustainable-new furnishings including LaPlante's studio collection with designer James Saavedra, jak, which made its debut on the Sundance Channel set from Project Greenhouse at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
LaPlante is the executive producer of "Brilliant Green," a special for Ovation TV, which will air this winter. She has appeared as an expert on television programs including Discovery Home Channel's Greenovate and Sundance Channel's Big Ideas for a Small Planet as well as in segments for Good Day New York, KTLA, Good Day Dallas, Good Day Atlanta, and Martha Stewart Radio on Sirius. Features of her work have appeared in Elle, Vanity Fair Online, Flaunt, Lucky Magazine, 944 Magazine, Western Interiors, California Home and Design, Blackbook Magazine Online, Hospitality Design, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Sprig.com, Treehugger.com, and Dallas Morning News, among others. Her blog is available to read at kellylaplante.com.
LaPlante's first book, écologique (benefitting The Blank Theatre Company and Global Green USA) was released last summer to rave reviews. She also recently developed thegreengrades.com, a website which presents expert reviews of various green furnishing companies as well as highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. LaPlante chairs the sustainbility committee for The Blank Theatre Company and serves on their board of directors. She is also serves on the board at ecoracing.org.
Kelly LaPlante
Organic Interior Design
310 /581 . 6789
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