Coming Full Circle:

Durkan Collaborates with Celebrated Designer Tracy Lee Stum, Pushes Boundaries of Design for Hospitality Spaces with Mandalas Collection

Miami, FL - Durkan stretches the limits of conventional carpet design in a unique collaboration with celebrated designer Tracy Lee Stum. Continuing Durkan’s tradition of innovative, high style hospitality flooring solutions, this marks the second major collaboration announced by the company in less than six months. Designed with Stum, Durkan’s Mandalas Collection will debut at Hospitality Design Boutique 2008 (HD Boutique) in Miami, Sept. 17-18. Bringing together contemporary design, cultures and colors, the transitional collection is as versatile as the influences that inspired it and designer who designed it.

"An accomplished artist of many trades, Tracy Lee Stum brings a distinct dimension and a previously unexplored perspective to hospitality carpet design," said Lee Blair, senior vice president of Durkan. "By collaborating with designers such as Tracy Lee, Durkan continues to push the envelope to deliver to our customers flooring solutions that are not only stylish, but on the leading edge of innovation and design."

Recognized internationally for street painting, drawing and decorative designing, Stum worked closely with Durkan to successfully master creativity in carpet design with Mandalas, which is named for the Hindu symbolic circular design that serves as one of the many inspirations for the Collection. Playing with seemingly unrelated visual styles - from Japanese geometric art and decorative designs, to objects such as bubbles and flowers - Stum achieves designs that are unexpectedly complementary and bring fresh personality to hospitality interiors.

Designer Biography:

Tracy Lee Stum is an internationally recognized talent whose versatile and exceptional abilities excel in the realms of street painting, drawing, painting and decorative designing. A visionary leader in these creative arenas, Tracy Lee’s wealth of experience, expertise and imagination makes her one of the most highly sought after working artists in her respective oeuvres today.

Considered by Madonnari peers, festival directors and viewers to be among the finest street painters, Tracy Lee has participated as an invited featured artist in festivals and events around the world. Her paintings have won numerous awards and accolades and she currently holds a Guinness World Record for the largest street painting by an individual, which was set in 2006.

In conjunction with her international reputation as a highly respected street painter, Tracy Lee is well known for her extraordinary trompe l’oeil murals, oil paintings and decorative design work. Her works graces the walls of high-end hospitality, entertainment and luxury residential spaces throughout the country including The Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace and The Venetian in Las Vegas, The Borgata in Atlantic City, and Hong Kong in the Disneyland Hotel.

Always eager to explore new avenues that utilize her unique visual sensibilities and talents, Tracy Lee recently took on the role of carpet designer in a collaboration with Durkan. With the launch of the resulting Mandalas Collection, she is proving that she can successfully master virtually every realm of design.