Eric Adolfsen led creative direction on projects including Quality Eats, Laurent Tourondel’s L’Amico and Sag Pizza, Nashville’s Downtown Sporting Club, Hotel Tivoli and Wildwood Snowmass. Eric was previously a director at Brand New School where he led the global re-brand of Cartoon Network and shot many visually-driven commercials. He co-founded and owns The Wooly, a private bar and restaurant in the landmark Woolworth Building. A New Yorker, Eric attended The Dalton School and went on to receive his B.A. in Art-Semiotics from Brown University and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Art.
Reunion Goods & Services is a New York City based studio specializing in interior architecture and design, identity and graphic design, art curation and commissions, furniture design and sourcing, and idea generation. Through the artful orchestration of these disciplines, Reunion strives to develop spaces that feel layered and engaging down to the smallest detail.
Greatly enhancing its breadth of capabilities, the firm recently joined with design studio (and long-time collaborator) Own Entity to create a single firm offering clients a full service experience, from conception through opening.
With a range of experience, Reunion sees every project as an opportunity (and responsibility) to engage with the world in a unique artistic dialogue.
Eric Adolfsen
Creative Direction
Carrie Dessertine
Interior Architecture
Carrie Dessertine is the lead interior architect on the forthcoming Hotel Clermont (Atlanta 2017). Before joining as a partner at Reunion in 2014, Carrie was co-founder of the design firm Own Entity where she led Gorilla Coffee, Anfora Wine Bar, and the renovation of Bar Forty-Four within the lobby of The Royalton Hotel as well as numerous residential projects. Earlier in her career she worked as a project manager and designer at Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors where she oversaw the design and construction of projects including the Artisan Lofts in Tribeca, The Royalton Hotel and 211 Elizabeth. Carrie holds a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Architecture from University of Michigan.
Carlton DeWoody
Creative Direction
Carlton DeWoody led creative direction for various recent projects including Tom Colicchio’s Beachcraft and The Happiest Hour. He also led the art direction for Wildwood Snowmass and Pinewood Social. Carlton’s artwork has been shown and collected internationally. Prior to forming Reunion, Carlton ran the studio Sprout for ten years with commercial clients ranging from the music and entertainment industries to real estate and hospitality. Carlton studied at Tulane University, University of Colorado, and The New School, graduating with a combined degree in Philosophy and Poetics.
Laura Flam
Interior Design
Laura Flam is the interior lead on all projects. Prior to Reunion, Laura worked as Senior Designer for Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors where she worked on projects including The Ace Hotel New York, The Breslin, and The Dutch. She has also worked on numerous high-end residential projects from NYC to Kauai to Moscow. Laura studied Interior Design at FIT.
Dana Jaasund
Interior Architecture
Dana Jaasund is the lead interior architect on the forthcoming 401 Union (Nashville 2016) as well as numerous high-end residential projects. Before joining as a partner at Reunion in 2014, Dana was co-founder of the design firm Own Entity. Prior to that, Dana worked as Senior Designer at Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors where she was the lead architect for The Royalton Hotel, The Ace Hotel New York, The Breslin, and Stumptown Coffee at the Ace Hotel. Dana received a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia School of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture from University of Michigan.
Now filled with art by the Mardens and friends such as Francesco Clemente, the 10-room Hotel Tivoli has been transformed by a redesign including pops of color and sensuous slabs of marble..Much of the vintage furniture filling the hotel was sourced there by the Mardens, who collaborated with new design firm Reunion Goods & Services on the renovation..It turned out to be a match made in decorating heaven.
Whatever a brief may call for, Reunion seeks projects that unite its interests in art, branding, furniture, and interiors…But despite its freewheeling thought process, the firm has found a way to tailor its creative thinking to spatial limitations. (From the magazine’s 2014 Endorsements Issue featuring “ten visionary talents set to change the worlds of art and design.”)
For drinks, this winter’s hot spot for après-ski is the retro-cool bar at the Wildwood, an old, down-at-the-heels ski lodge that’s just been vividly and whimsically rejuvenated with a 1960s vibe by the New York design firm Reunion.
Wildwood Snowmass: A smart revamp of an old ski lodge…its colorful interiors have a playful retro-chic feel.
Wildwood Snowmass: A colourful and playful look by undauntedly merging inspiration from ski lodges of the last four decades together in one.
Nashville, Tennessee’s burgeoning food scene is welcoming a stylish newcomer: Pinewood Social designed by Nashville-based Landy Gardner Interiors and the New York firm Reunion.
The latest trend in hotels? Quirky meets woodsy. Wildwood Snowmass has gone 1960s ski-lodge retro. The renovated bedrooms are still small, with space-saving captain’s beds, but you’re meant to be down in the lobby—an alpine version of Pee-wee’s Playhouse.