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Published: Mar 15, 2010

NEW YORK—The Savannah College of Art and Design’s furniture design department will display the best student designs at the “Architectural Digest Home Show,” at Pier 94, 55th Street at West Side Highway, New York, N.Y., March 18-21. SCAD students have collaborated with international furniture company Adriana Hoyos to create the pieces, selected for innovation and talent that will be on display.

Thirteen graduate and undergraduate students have narrowed their designs down to four: a lamp, an armchair, a bookcase, and a table. The process of creating the inventive and yet exotic natural pieces involved collaborative learning practices with representatives of Adriana Hoyos, who manufactured the collection at the company’s manufacturing plant in Quito, Ecuador.

“We are so excited about this collaboration with SCAD,” said company founder Adriana Hoyos. “The university’s furniture program vision and practice of excellent design standards was of great interest to our company. We want to collaborate with SCAD students because we appreciate their talent and seek to give a space among our team for these young and fresh creative minds.”

Hoyos was born in Colombia and raised in Ecuador. After completing her interior design degree in the United States, she returned to South America to begin her design studio. In the intervening 20 years it has grown to a major international design firm and furniture company with a staff of seasoned architects, designers and project managers, capable of tracking simultaneous projects of every size and complexity. Adriana Hoyos has created interiors for major international chains such as Trump International, and Starwood.

At SCAD, students in the furniture design department hone their skills as designers by mastering the fundamentals and learning the design processes through which products are conceived, developed, fabricated and marketed. Student designs are tested for style, comfort, utility and durability through the creation of computer renderings, scale models or prototypes, and students are taught to seek new applications for traditional practices and sustainable approaches to natural materials, encouraging them to become accountable for the broader impact of their ideas.

Adriana Hoyos

In 2002, Adriana Hoyos started its operations in North America, eight years later its presence has grown to include two major showrooms in the USA located in Florida at the Miami Design District and DCOTA, Design Center of the Americas, as well as exclusive dealers nationwide. There are eight Adriana Hoyos showrooms outside the USA located in Panama, Venezuela and Ecuador and exclusive dealers in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean and Saudi Arabia.

Our long standing tradition of manufacturing by combining high design and innovative materials has created one of the most unique design catalogs on the market. The ready availability of skilled craftsmen and a steady supply of sources are among the reasons that Adriana Hoyos can provide furniture of such extraordinary finish.