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Garden Accents

Neanesday. March 10,

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esigner comes to Jabot

Deana Lancaster

Nev cporter
deana@usnews.com
SEEKING ways to
stamp your signature
style throughout your

wendow treatments. fabor

will now orter a full range of

desen SETVICES,
And Jabot customers will
be able to benetit trom the

internanenal CAVpenenee of

Somerville.
“not many

ages to the legendary trade
shows held in the southeast
State

He spends dave there
scrutinizing more than sik
million square feet of disphiy
space.

Somerville is fooking for

For example,

cal designers are able to

sit the furniture shows held
iy North Carolina,” he says
af his semi-annual pil

living space?

Or do vou wonder if vou
even have such a style?

Intenor designer Douglas
Somerville has long made a
name for himsclf helping
people discover theirs.

He was all alone in
Yaletown wi he oper

fnatare Interiors in 1984

people thought | was

crazy” he says of the de
sion to launch his Vancouver
business in what was then 3
geitty warehouse district. But
the area soon began ro
thriv and with it,
Somerville

in 1995, a iwanese
investor boughs the building
that housed his retail opera-
don and raised the rents.

Somerville decided to
clase the business and wark
as an independent designer
with chents all over the
world, including many in the
Lower Mainland. His work Laren
has shown up in < h *
Arclitectural Diae tt esern Imagine...S Opping at Home
Living and Southern Accents. . :

Now, getting Somerville’s Draperies * Bedding ¢ Valances

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help is : ¢ Upholstery « Blinds Specializing in:

Van's Jabor Creative . .
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ward to working with Jabot.
“Pee had quite a) few

chenty in West Van so it’s

familiar territory for me.”

has signed on as the “signa-

; ture designer” with the West

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield Vancouver business, owned
by Charlene Ingram.

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