As a finishing touch, interior designers often encourage their clients to select new personal stationery that reflects the renovation of their home. To achieve the ultimate class, sophistication, and stunning beauty we know people expect from personal correspondence notes, we have recruited three of the country’s most renowned interior designers – Martha Angus, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy, and Jay Jeffers – and will use their work as the inspiration behind our first-ever personal stationery competition. At the competition’s conclusion, the three designers will pick their favorite card for their own extensive personal correspondence.
The top ten awards will be determined by Minted’s audience ratings. The first prize will receive $500. The second prize will receive $250. Prizes 3 through 10 will each receive $100 each. In addition, the designs chosen by each interior designer will each receive $150, for a grand total of $2,000 in prizes.
For this challenge, the guest judges are doubling as our inspiration.
Over the last twenty years, Angus’s fresh yet classic, comfortable but still refined, approach to interior design has built her an extremely loyal following. A painter at heart, her work combines contemporary art with a diverse mix of modern and timeless furniture. She began designing in New York City where she worked on projects for a number of well-known clients including Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, and the Lauder family. Since starting San Francisco and New York based, Martha Angus Inc., her work has been featured in California Home + Design, Western Interiors and Design, and Elle Décor. See her work at MarthaAngus.com
Widely regarded as a “dean of interior design,” Diaz-Azcuy has had a far-ranging influence on the contemporary practice of interior design. His elegantly composed rooms speak volumes for his spare, intelligent, and disciplined touch. He has designed everything from the Sir Michael Kadoorie residence to the Spa and Pool of Hong Kong's celebrated Peninsula Hotel. A critically acclaimed book about his design, published by Rizzoli and written by Diane Dorrans Saeks, came out earlier this year. See his work at ODADA.net and in Saeks's book.
The head of the San Francisco and Los Angeles-based Jeffers Design Group, Jeffers is known for his extensive use of patterns and for his unexpected and whimsical additions to a room. He often infuses period antiques with modern pieces. His work is at once elegant and sophisticated, but always still approachable. House Beautiful has twice named Jay Jeffers one of its Top 100 Interior Designers, and he and JDG’s projects have appeared in Metropolitan Home, Elle Décor, and The New York Times. See his work at JeffersDesignGroup.com
