Paul Rene offers unlimited possibilities for your stylistic leanings: transitional, contemporary, modern, or industrial rustic. We’re not a semi-custom furniture maker. We stock no prefab components. We have no lists of options, sizes, or colors to choose from. Our inspired built-in or standalone furnishings eliminate purchasing mistakes and make the room work. There’s no comparison, even in the finest luxury furniture stores. Our gift is imagination. Our mastery is the material expression of ideas that sparks thought. Each of our pieces results from meticulous craftsmanship, from the selection of the finest materials to the final finishing touches. We take immense pride in our work and strive to create beautiful pieces that stand the test of time.

I was 1 of 7 furniture designers to appear in Ellen's Next Great Designer. If I were not among like-minded rule-breaking creatives; the experience may have been unbearable. We stayed on the 17th floor of a tired Holiday Inn. We had the floor to ourselves, reminding me of The Shining with Jack Nicholson. Due to strict COVID precautions, our key cards were taken. We were to stay isolated in our rooms except during filming. To ensure compliance, we had hallway police. If we wanted a cup of coffee, they escorted us down 17 floors and back. After one night, the creatives were having no more of that. On day 2, we started planning our escape. Paranoid that mics and cameras were secretly embedded, a few of us flipped over a mattress, disassembled a room phone, and took down a few vent covers to ensure our plans or need for social contact were not being listened to. Nothing was found, so nightly masked parties began in the fire escape stairwell. Not sure how it was done, but party stuff got smuggled up and past Ellen's Next Great Designer hall police. It was the nightly storytelling and peeks into the other contestants’ backgrounds and design philosophies that got us thru long days in front of cameras on cold sets with milquetoast lunches.

 There are generally two types of designers - those that take risks by pushing aesthetic boundaries and those who work within trends or, as known in the design world, those that design variations of a trend. Apple Innovates. Samsung offers a good variation of Apple’s innovations. Innovators can do both - push the boundaries and dial back to the trend. The other will struggle to offer a choice. Paul Rene innovates.