— CATEGORY DESIGN & BRAND PARTNERSHIPS
Pottery
Barn
TABLETOP
BATH
DESIGNER COLLABORATIONS
COMPANY
Pottery Barn/ Williams-Sonoma Inc.
ROLE
Director of Textiles/ Product Designer, Tabletop & Bath / Partnerships
SCALE
Global retail — hundreds of SKUs per season
— THE WORK
Designing
retail scale
At Pottery Barn, I owned the full design lifecycle across tabletop, bath, and furniture upholstery — from initial concept through sourcing, vendor development, and seasonal launch. Every decision was a category decision: balancing aesthetic ambition with cost targets, trend relevance, and the demands of a global retail calendar.
In parallel, I directed Pottery Barn’s external designer partnership program, leading concept-to-production collaborations across fashion, entertainment, and luxury brands. The work demanded a different skill entirely — the ability to inhabit another designer’s aesthetic completely., while ensuring every product could perform at Pottery Barn’s scale.
WHAT SCALE MEANS
When a design decision touches millions of homes, the craft behind it has to hold. Every material choice, every proportion, every color relationship gets tested at a volume most designers never work at.
— CATEGORY DESIGN — TABLETOP & BATH
In-house design.
End to end.
Seasonal collections spanning dining & entertaining, bath textiles, and furniture upholstery — designed in-house from concept through vendor execution.
— DESIGNER COLLABORATIONS
Five aesthetics.
One designer.
Directing external partnerships requires a fundamentally different skill than having you own aesthetic — you have to fully inhabit someone else’s design language, understand what makes it authentic, and translate it into products that hold up at Pottery Barn’s scale.
Across five collaborations in 2019, I led concept-to-production alongside fashion designers, entertainment brands, and luxury houses. Each one is a distinct visual world. The ability to move fluently between them is the point.
Emily + Merrit Lilly Pulitzer Friends Harry Potter Monique Lhuillier
THE CHAMELEON SKILL
Not every designer can disappear into someone else’s world. The instinct is always to bring your own voice. The discipline is knowing when not to.
2019 SEASONAL COLLABORATIONS
Emily & Merrit
Lilly Pulitzer
Editorial. dark, sophisticated— navy, rust, pale blue. Bedding, bath, and decorative accessories across furniture and textile categories
Tropical resort— vibrant pink, teal, and green. Celebrating 60 years of iconic prints. Bedding, and outdoor..
Friends x Pottery Barn
25th anniversary — pop culture nostalgia. Central perk, the Apothecary Table, illustrated typography.
Harry Potter
Dark academia fantasy — Hogwarts house crests, jewel tones, velvet and metallic. Tabletop & entertaining.
Monique Lhuillier
Couture-meets-home — all-white luxury holiday. Ivory, champagne, embroidered beading. Bridal elegance translated.
Designing at scale is a discipline — not just a credential.
At Pottery Barn every material call, every color relationship, every proportion decision gets multiplied across hundreds of SKUs and millions of customers. That kind of volume sharpens your judgement fast — and teaches you that good design isn’t just what looks right in a sample room. It’s what holds up in the world.