about kelly laplante organic interior design

Leading interior designer Kelly LaPlante, who taught the design community that "green is a standard, not a style" is raising the bar once again. Sustainability now represents only a single component in LaPlante's ever-evolving criteria-- a criteria which will illuminate this fall with the launch of LaPlante's first periodical publication, Standard (www.standardmag.com.)

LaPlante's design projects include the Lexus Hybrid Living Suites at Fairmont Hotels in San Francisco and Washington DC, as well as the acclaimed Venice Beach Eco Cottages. Currently, she is designing residental projects across the country, a historic boutique hotel in Berkeley California and a Carribean Eco-lodge on the island of Dominica.

The February 2010 issue of Traditional Home Magazine names LaPlante among the "Twenty Young Designers to Watch." Her work has also been pubished in magazines such as Elle, Vanity Fair Online, Sunset, Flaunt, Lucky, Western Interiors, California Home and Design, Blackbook, Interior Design, Hospitality Design, Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Magazine . She regularly appears as an expert on programs including Sundance Channel's The Lazy Environmentalist and Big Ideas for a Small Planet, Discovery Home Channel's Greenovate, Good Day New York, KTLA News, Good Day Dallas, Good Day Atlanta, and Martha Stewart Radio. LaPlante was also the executive producer of "Brilliant Green," a special for Ovation TV which aired in January of 2009.

LaPlante's first book, écologique (benefitting The Blank Theatre Company and Global Green USA) was released in 2008. She is the creator and founder of thegreengrades.com, and co-founder of jak, a luxury eco-furniture collection designed in collaboration with designer James Saavedra. For more information, or to read Ms LaPlante's blog, please visit: kellylaplante.com.