Leading luxury home lifestyle retailer Frontgate has announced a collaboration with renowned interior designer Carleton Varney to create a colorful outdoor collection for Spring/Summer 2016. The collection includes outdoor furniture, umbrellas, tabletop, rugs and planters, and will be launched in Frontgate's April catalog. Each piece is designed with Mr. Varney's signature style, featuring bold contrasts, unique prints, vibrant colors and, of course, theatrical flair.

Jenn Reeves, SVP of Brand for Frontgate, said, "We are thrilled to be collaborating with Carleton Varney. We love him, our consumers love him and America loves him. With this exciting partnership, we are bringing the Dorothy Draper fabric designs and Carleton's colorful flair to an exclusive collection for outdoor living spaces of all shapes and sizes. Over the next two years, we will be delighting our consumers with the beauty and quality you'd expect from Frontgate mixed with the colorful designs you'd expect from Carleton Varney. It's a match made in design heaven!"

Mr. Varney's kaleidoscopic vision celebrates color and life, and accentuates the experience of grand living. Mr. Varney said, "Frontgate offered me the opportunity to design and create furnishings and fabrics that expressed my feelings and experiences of design styles from my decorating of hotels and residences around the world. My design consideration centered around comfort, practicality and usability, as well as color and style. I am particularly delighted with the melamine Caning Dinnerware that appears at first viewing to be fine porcelain."

In the three furniture assortments, pieces range from a bistro table to deep seating to traditional dining, offering different styling within the thematic whole of Mr. Varney's trademark look. The Hillandale Rose collection presents whimsy in a unique bistro table, Ibis Isle gives a fashion-forward take on Chippendale design, and Giverny updates traditional neoclassic motifs.

The breadth of designful offerings is certainly where Frontgate goes the extra mile. With new outdoor gourmet and serving products, tabletop décor and patterned melamine plates, Frontgate enables effortless, graceful entertaining.

About Frontgate:
Frontgate is a leading home luxury lifestyle retailer. Frontgate is known for its best-in-class furnishings and enhancements. It outfits America's finest homes through its flagship Frontgate catalog, as well as four specialty collections and one modern aesthetic brand: The Outdoor Book, The Holiday Book, The Interiors Book, Splash and Porta Forma. Frontgate has enjoyed growth by combining a superior level of customer service with quality products not commonly available in retail stores. Frontgate products can be described as being professional grade and authentic, having innovative features yet also timeless design. Frontgate is part of HSN Inc., a $3.7 billion interactive multichannel retailer with strong direct-to-consumer expertise between its two operating segments, HSN and Cornerstone. Cornerstone Brands Inc. (CBI) is a family of direct marketers that ranks among this country's top 10 consumer-direct firms.

About Carleton Varney:
Carleton Varney is one of the best-known, most accomplished interior designers in the country. He has decorated landmark buildings like the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island and the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, and consulted on several functions at the White House, while superstars of film, fashion and finance have hired him to give their homes his inimitable style. Varney's approach is anything but drab. He rejects "vanilla decorating" and opts instead for bold contrast, vibrant colors and theatrical flair. He encourages his clients to be adventurous and regain the "freedom of being a child with the paint box." Twenty-six books bear his name, along with lines of furniture, fabric, wallpaper, paint, carpeting, dinnerware and apparel.

(Source: Frontgate)