The interior designer opens a professional showroom — and showcases her own serious style. After growing a successful design firm alongside a business partner, she decided it was time to step out on her own and start Evars Collective.
For all the expanding digital capabilities of these new showrooms, a physical space to go, see, touch and feel is still an enticing proposition—one that Nancy Evars is investing in. A designer for 15 years, Evars has a firm based far enough south of San Francisco that weeknight showroom events in the city are unrealistic to drive to. That fact combined with her own line of upholstered furniture and an itch for a local design hub led her to launch Evars Collective on the San Francisco Peninsula. The brick-and-mortar, to-the-trade showroom will not only serve as a destination for sourcing and inspiration, but will focus on community, incorporating a membership component with social and professional networking opportunities.
Evars Collective has officially opened its doors as the first trade-only showroom on the San Francisco Peninsula; connecting Bay Area designers with custom furniture, furnishings, globally curated art and accessories and designer textiles available for direct purchase. Committed to offering a new showroom experience with personalized attention and dedicated account managers, the expert team at Evars Collective will be offering their unique design approach to help designers cultivate and grow their businesses. To that end, Evars Collective will be launching The Club at The Collective, an annual membership for local designers to network and foster community.
Spring is finally here, and showroom openings are in full bloom for budding designers and industry mainstays alike. In our April roundup, BOH has gathered all the expansions and openings to have on your radar. The Evars Collective has opened in San Carlos, and is billed as “the first trade-only experiential center on the San Francisco Peninsula.” The space, from founder Nancy Evars, features a vignette-style showroom, a custom furniture line and select fabric lines—plus, an industry membership club slated to open later this year.
Peninsula tastemaker Nancy Evars, a veteran of the bay area design community and Decorator’s Showcase San Francisco alumni, has opened a multi-line showroom in San Carlos. the seven showroom vignettes feature California made custom furniture, noteworthy fabric and wallcoverings lines, accent furniture, accessories, pillows, and hand-selected one-of-a-kind pieces. Nancy is also introducing The Club at the Collective to foster community, networking, sharing practices, and support among new and established designers.
The peninsula is now home to a brand-new design destination: Evars Collective, a dynamic space curated by founder Nancy Evars. A walk through the new showroom takes visitors through six shoppable vignettes, each of which feature different offerings. An extra-exciting addition to the space is The Champagne Bar, an area for visitors to relax, sip some bubbly, and meet clients.
Interior Designer Nancy Evars puts her experience to work with Evars Collective, an experiential furniture and lifestyle store in San Carlos. The stylish 1,900 sqft bilevel to-the-trade space highlights the 53-piece upholstery line, entirely manufactured by family-run companies in Southern California. Arranged in inspirational—and shoppable—vignettes. This fall will also see the launch of The Club at the Collective, a yearly membership group designed to forge community and create connection among new and established designers. “It’s the career resource I would have liked to have.”
Interior designer Nancy Evars, is opening the doors to her San Carlos showroom this month. She wants to offer Peninsula designers the choices and resources akin to what they’d find in the City. In her new 1,900-square-foot space, there will be a handful of distinct and highly stylized “vignettes,” showcasing wallpaper, artisan decor, side tables and unique findings. In addition to Evars’ own signature upholstery line, she will highlight lines by locals Serena Dugan Studio and Elworthy Studio, plus Los Angeles’ CW Stockwell, and others. Down the road, Evars has plans to form a club for area designers, offering a hub to share ideas, hear presentations.