Stunning Studio…

March 2011

Designers Beth Dotolo & Carolina V Gentry have a good thing going over at Pulp Design Studios.  Beth, who has become a great friend to me, just re-located to Seattle while Carolina keeps the Dallas base moving.  Their Dallas studio, which is also Carolina’s loft, is full of beautiful art, accessories and furniture that makes you drool.  That credenza…AMAZING!

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Pulp Design Studios’ interior designers create stylish, comfortable rooms with soothing colors and beautiful furniture, lighting and accessories. Gilt City members looking to upgrade their abodes can choose from two offers from Pulp Design Studios. Jump start your home’s new look with a one-hour in-home design consultation (purchase up to five hours of service). Or for more dramatic results, Pulp’s step-by-step online design service, Pulp Design Factory, walks you through purchasing one or more e-Designed rooms (up to 500 square feet per room). Each e-Designed room includes the selection of furniture, accessories, and lighting; space planning, furniture layout, and finish and color consultation. It excludes construction and remodeling coordination. Centrally located in Dallas, Pulp Design Studios takes advantage of the city’s proximity to some of the best design shopping in the country, including top trade-only furniture and fabric showrooms.

• Boutique design firm Pulp Design Studios is known for creating timeless, modern interiors that exude a youthful and glamorous appeal. With backgrounds in residential and commercial design and renovation, past projects have taken PULP from Dallas to Park Cities to New York City.
• Founders Carolina Gentry and Beth Dotolo are registered interior designers who specialize in space planning, furniture, accessory and art selections, custom window treatments and bedding, redesign, finish and color selections and complete home remodeling.
• Pulp’s e-Design program, Pulp Design Factory, gives users all the benefits of hiring a top interior designer regardless of their location. Best of all, E-Design includes access to interior design trade-only products.

— Rebecca Sherman, Gilt City Editor

House of Fifty

Fall 2011

How to Build an Eclectic Space

By Christine Dovey

Neutral Rooms That Wow

By Jeanine Hays

Beige needn’t be bland. Three designers share their expert tips for creating neutral interiors that are relaxing, subtle and sophisticated.

From paint colors to furnishings, neutral rooms are anything but boring. These rooms by top interior designers showcase the beauty of neutral spaces. Designers Beth Dotolo and Carolina Gentry of Pulp Design Studios, Vanessa DeLeon and Sandra Espinet give their tips on creating neutral interiors that really wow.

Don’t Be Afraid to Go Gray

Gray is a go-to neutral for interior designers. ‘My favorite neutral without a doubt is gray. You can go either cool or warm with it and can contrast any color against it,’ says Beth Dotolo, Pulp Design Studios.

Add Excitement With Texture

A serene paint palette can be brought to life with a mixture of texture and metallic finishes. Beth’s tip: Play with texture and shimmer in order to create excitement in a neutral space.

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The Best List 2011

These 90 local designers were voted the best in Dallas by the showrooms of Dallas

Beth Dotolo named one of D Home Magazine’s Best Designers in Dallas 2011.

Chair by Pulp Design Studios

Dallas Morning News

September 2011

Dwell With Dignity plans Design District pop-up

By Erin Booke

When you hear names like Jan Showers and David Sutherland, the word thrift doesn’t necessarily come to mind. But at Dwell With Dignity’s new pop-up Thrift Studio, you can find high-end designer furniture and accessories at discounted prices — and for a good cause. Sales benefit the nonprofit group, which helps transition families out of homelessness and poverty by outfitting their new homes and trying to lift their spirits.

DWD founders Lisa Robison and Kim Turner say the idea of a benefit store is a natural fit for their work. “We got to a point where, if we wanted to invite more people to play with us, we needed to raise some more funds,” Robison says. “We have such a strong connection with the design community in Dallas, and a lot of the designers want to know how they can help more.”

Designers and showrooms have donated various furnishings, ranging from new to gently used items that come from overstock inventory or clients who have changed their minds.

“They can donate things that are extra-fabulous and may be too precious” to put in an apartment for Dwell With Dignity clients, Robison says. “It might have white linen fabric. Something like that wouldn’t withstand the wear and tear.” Some items also are scaled for quite large rooms, and they would not fit in a transitional apartment.

The store will be a biannual, 30-day pop-up event at different locations. The first store opens Oct. 1 in a 3,000-square-foot showroom in the Dallas Design District.

“Because we are designers, we said that if we did a thrift store, it’s got to be unlike any other thrift store,” Robison says. So the pair recruited five local interior design firms to style vignettes within the store to create a high-end environment — Abbe Fenimore of Studio Ten 25, Beth Dotolo and Carolina V Gentry of Pulp Design Studio, Emily Johnston of EJ Interiors, Samantha Reitmayer Sano of Style/Swoon and William Baker of JonesBaker. Dallas luxury bedding retailer Peacock Alley also will host a pop-up store within Thrift Studio, offering discounts on samples, one-offs and discontinued items.

Prices will range from less than $100 for lamps, accessories and small chairs to custom-upholstered chairs and sofas at heavy discounts. Turner describes a chair, for example, priced about $3,800 retail that the pop-up store may sell for about $1,200. A hand-carved queen-size bed may sell for about $1,500.

“We want people to walk out saying ‘Wow, I really got a great deal on that,’” Robison says.

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F|D Luxe

October 2011

Dwell With Dignity launches pop-up shop Thrift Studio

By Samantha Reitmayer Sano

Call it cause marketing or simply designers doing good. Either way, nonprofits are turning to retail to better the world one transaction at a time. Case in point: Two-year-old Dallas nonprofit Dwell With Dignity, which creates inspiring home interiors for families struggling with poverty, opens the doors to Thrift Studio, a 30-day pop-up shop in the heart of the Design District, on Oct. 1. With neighbors and supporters such as Pegasus Ablon, Scott + Cooner and Janus et Cie, this isn’t your average thrift store. DWD has stocked a 3,000-square-foot warehouse with gently used furniture, including some rare to-the-trade-only gems donated by showrooms and designers such as David Sutherland, Jan Showers and David Cadwallader. “Often we are given gorgeous pieces that would make more sense to sell to raise funds,” says DWD director Kim Turner. “Last week, we received a $6,000 hair-on-hide modern wingback chair. It’s stop-you-in-your-tracks stunning.”

To kick off the pop-up, five Dallas-based designers have been asked to create vignettes with warehouse offerings and help from 50 Neiman Marcus volunteers. Look for designs by Abbe Fenimore of Studio Ten 25, Beth Dotolo and Carolina V. Gentry of Pulp Design Studios, William Baker of JonesBaker, Emily Johnston of EJ Interiors and the Material Girls blog and — full disclosure — this reporter.

“While we do need furniture, what we really need is the funds to build infrastructure for our organization,” says DWD founder Lisa Robison. An August segment on The Nate Berkus Show inspired dozens of inquiries asking how to start DWD in communities around the country. Robison hopes to take the next year to draft a road map.

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We have a BRAND NEW blog!!

Well, it’s actually not all that new. We have made the decision to make Beth’s lifestyle blog, Hello, Splendor, the official blog of Pulp Design Studios. Beth has been working on her lifestyle blog for over a year and a half, earning her a devoted following of blog readers and new friends. We hope you’re among them! Beth has added Carolina and the Pulp team to her blogging roster for a fresh new Pulp-like approach.

What does this mean for you?

New coverage on all things lifestyle & interior design related. After all, once you have a beautiful home you have to live in it stylishly. Plus, get to know Beth & Carolina on a more personal level.

What does this mean for PULP?

Nothing! We’re still designing up a storm & will continue to post new design work in the projects section of this website. We’ll use Hello, Splendor to talk on trends, post before & afters of our work, and show you what goes on behind the scenes.

What’s to come on Hello, Splendor? 

A complete re-design of Beth’s blog to make it more Pulp-like in the coming months, followed by a party to celebrate next year! (pssst – subscribe to Hello, Splendor so you can be invited when the time comes!)

What do you need to do?

1. Go visit Hello, Splendor

2. If you subscribe to our Pulp blog feed, you’ll need to re-subscribe to the Hello, Splendor feed & delete your Pulp feed.

3. It never hurts to follow Hello, Splendor on Twitter & Facebook, even if you’re already following Pulp!

4. Finally, get Pulp & Hello, Splendor in your inbox… Sign up here!

We hope you’ll join us! 

Here’s a sneak peek of what we’ve been working hard on for the Dwell With Dignity Thrift Studio Pop-Up Shop! Don’t forget about the launch party this Friday. We’d love to see you there.  See (and shop) our vignette, along with the four other fab designer vignettes! I’m telling you, you don’t want to miss this.

So, who’s coming? Let us know so we can be on the lookout for you!

You’re invited to the sneak preview party for the first ever Dwell With Dignity Pop Up Shop!

The hip Dallas design community is coming together to support Dwell With Dignity. Shop five vingettes designed by your very own Beth & Carolina of PULP Design Studios, along with our friends Style/SWOON, Studio Ten 25, William Baker, and Emily Johnston Larkin.

Come sip, bite, and shop our designer finds for a good cause!

1616 Hi Line Drive

$25 Admission at the Door. Benefits Dwell With Dignity.

The Thrift Studio will be a bi-annual pop-up shop, open for 30 days, that benefits Dwell With Dignity by selling overstock of donated items. The first Thrift Studio will be open in the Design District from Oct 1st-29th.