Divine Design at Lonetree in Victoria Court

Divine Style and design at Lonetree in Victoria Court docket

Michelle Beamer’s Retail Showroom Is a Lovely New Place for Inspiration

By Leslie Dinaberg | May 19, 2022

Currently being in the appropriate location at the appropriate time is frequently the critical to results. 

As the principal designer at MB Interiors and a faculty member of the interior structure section at Santa Barbara Town Higher education, Michelle Beamer had prolonged toyed with the idea of opening a retail showroom. Lonetree (lonetreesb.com), her breathtaking new area stocked with upscale yet snug dwelling furnishings, lights, art, and add-ons, arrives on the scene just as the downtown Arts District is looking at a renaissance in home layout stores and expert services.

Cleverly merchandised as a collection of vignettes and “rooms” blended with a spacious, courtyard-dealing with design and style studio, Lonetree is basically dependent on Beamer’s master’s thesis at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Layout in Washington, D.C. The strategy included owning at any time-shifting curated vignettes the place clients could sit on home furniture and touch fabrics and visualize what it would be like to are living with them. Look at. She also envisioned storytelling layout chances these as the Santa Barbara Museum of Art–inspired Van Gogh desk display screen now on look at. Check out. And she needed to be able to present a room for local community engagement this kind of as 1st Thursday parties ​— ​featuring a recent raffle to benefit Tranquil (Little one Abuse Listening Mediation) ​— ​and collaborations with local community groups like Jane Chapman’s Communal Table gatherings (communaltablesb.com). Check. 

Not to point out, a beautiful room for her to generate, function with her crew, and satisfy customers. Checkmate.

A Nebraska indigenous, Beamer claims the identify Lonetree is a nod to her hometown. “When I was undertaking exploration, I found out about traders in the 1800s traveling by boat along the Missouri River to carry their products to marketplace,” she mentioned. “The trader was informed that when he glimpsed the lone tree on the hill ​— ​there weren’t a ton of trees in Nebraska ​— ​he realized they were near to the ideal place to sell their products.”

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