About
Paul Jeffrey
Founder · Designer · Maker
Before Paul Rene, there was Ford Motor Company. Paul Jeffrey spent years designing concept cars in Detroit, learning the discipline that would later define his furniture: form follows feeling, proportion creates emotion, and every surface communicates something.
He left Detroit for California, then Los Angeles. A significant business loss stripped him of nearly everything: career, savings, the version of himself he thought he was building toward. He rebuilt, slowly, in Phoenix.
"In L.A., I had to endure the fire of complete failure. In that lowly and exposed state, I could see myself and my choices clearly."
What emerged from that clarity was Paul Rene, a private furniture practice built on the conviction that a home should reflect the life being lived inside it. Not a catalog. Not a trend. An expression.
In 2021, Paul was selected for Ellen DeGeneres's HBO Max series Ellen's Next Great Designer, one of seven designers chosen nationally. In 2023, The New York Times featured him among furniture designers shaping the field.
Today the studio operates by private appointment from Phoenix, taking four commissions per month for clients in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and increasingly, nationally and internationally.
Hereafter Design
Home is not merely a reflection of who we are.
It participates in who we become.
The spaces we inhabit are not passive.
They speak to us, shape our attention,
awaken memory, provoke thought and
influence how we move through the world.
This is the deeper responsibility of design.
We design the environment.
The environment participates in shaping the person.
The person participates in shaping the world.
Hereafter Design asks not only, “How should a home look?”
It asks, “What should a home produce?”
"Not Furniture. Becoming."
The work speaks.
They noticed.
The New York Times
Names to Know · March 12, 2023
"A bookcase is a bookcase because it has to hold a book, and how many ways can you approach it?"
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Phoenix Home & Garden
Masters of the Southwest · 2022
Six creative powerhouses who have made their marks in the Valley and beyond.
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Modern Luxury Scottsdale
Magazine Cover · 2019
The Luxe List, Scottsdale's defining names in design.
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Iconic Life Magazine
Works of Art · 2023
Paul Rene Furniture showcases their latest Kallos Collection at the Bentley Gallery.
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A feature about Paul Jeffrey titled "Art Meets Design."
"A furniture designer and owner of Paul Rene Furniture. His understanding of the modernist category informs his work and makes him a leader in the industry."
This is who I am.
This is what I believe.
This is how the world has recognized the work.
And this is what the work is here to do.
Paul Jeffrey presenting on Ellen's Next Great Designer, HBO Max.
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