Lori Dennis
Encyclopedia
Lori Dennis, is an interior designer, environmentalist
, entrepreneur
, television and radio guest expert, author and lecturer.
architecture. Even as a teenager she attended weekly open houses in Los Angeles, exposing herself to some of the world's most desired properties in Bel Air, Malibu and Pacific Palisades.
In 2004 Lori Dennis began practicing green interior design. Her list of celebrity clients has included Horace Grant, the professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls
, Orlando Magic
, Seattle Supersonics
and Los Angeles Lakers
, stylist Jen Rade and environmentalist/television personality Chef Jeffrey Mora, who is the chef for the Los Angeles Lakers
and Los Angeles Kings
. Other projects include residential, commercial and hospitality interiors with eco-friendly components in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Springs and New York.
In 2006 Lori Dennis passed the NCIDQ
Exam (National Council for Interior Design Qualification) and became a full member of the American Society of Interior Designers
. She currently serves on the Los Angeles Chapter of ASID’s Green Committee and Website Committee. Dennis is also a member of the finance committee of the UCLA Interior Design Alumni Association Board.
In 2007 Dennis passed the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Commercial Interiors certification exam, making her a LEED AP professional. Traditionally LEED professionals focus their efforts on public and commercial interiors, but Dennis works on bringing sustainable education and service to the residential sector.
Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Coastal Living, Southern Accents
, Woman’s Day,People
, "Apartment Therapy", "LUXE
", Los Angeles Times
, Dwell
and many other magazines, books and websites throughout the world. Her firm has been awarded the nation’s best green and modern design by ASID, Home Magazine
", "Viking Appliances", Southern Accents
, California Home and Angeleno Magazine. She
is a featured expert on HGTV
, Food Network Channel
, Oxygen Network, NBC
, KABC
and XM Radio. Lori has lectured on green interior design at UCLA, FIDM, Dwell on Design, Alt Build, Design Within Reach and Westweek at the Pacific Design Center
.
Her book, Green Interior Design, published by Allworth Press and distributed by Random House
, is coming out in the fall of 2010.
Dennis lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
2010
2009
2008
Environmentalist
An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, television and radio guest expert, author and lecturer.
Early life
Dennis was born in New York in 1969 and lived in San Diego, Pennsylvania and New York before moving to Los Angeles to attend University High School. Influenced by turn of the century buildings in New York City, the landscape of Southern California and arts and crafts from the Amish country, she knew early on that she loved interior design andarchitecture. Even as a teenager she attended weekly open houses in Los Angeles, exposing herself to some of the world's most desired properties in Bel Air, Malibu and Pacific Palisades.
Career
Dennis graduated from the UCLA Extension Interior Design program in July 2000. While completing coursework, Lori was In-house Designer for SeminarPlanet.com. In 1999, she went to work for Cheryl Rowley Interior Design. A year later, she established her own firm, Lori Dennis, Inc. Lori Dennis, Inc. specializes in sustainable (green or eco-friendly) interior design, and she is currently the principal designer of the firm. They are one of the nation's top Green Interior Design Firms, presented with the Greeopia Award in 2008, as well as the HOME Magazine "2008 Best Green Remodel" award.In 2004 Lori Dennis began practicing green interior design. Her list of celebrity clients has included Horace Grant, the professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls
Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1966. They play their home games at the United Center...
, Orlando Magic
Orlando Magic
The Orlando Magic is a professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association and are currently coached by Stan Van Gundy...
, Seattle Supersonics
Seattle SuperSonics
The Seattle SuperSonics were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington that played in the Pacific and Northwest Divisions of the National Basketball Association from 1967 until 2008. Following the 2007–08 season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City, and now plays as...
and Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
, stylist Jen Rade and environmentalist/television personality Chef Jeffrey Mora, who is the chef for the Los Angeles Lakers
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
and Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles Kings
The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
. Other projects include residential, commercial and hospitality interiors with eco-friendly components in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Miami, Palm Springs and New York.
In 2006 Lori Dennis passed the NCIDQ
NCIDQ
The National Council for Interior Design Qualification , an independent of state and provincial credentialing bodies, provides the North American public with the means to identify interior designers who have demonstrated the minimum level of competence needed to practice interior design. In...
Exam (National Council for Interior Design Qualification) and became a full member of the American Society of Interior Designers
American Society of Interior Designers
The American Society of Interior Designers is the oldest and largest professional association for interior designers. Through education, knowledge sharing, advocacy, community building and outreach, the Society strives to advance the interior design profession and, in the process, to demonstrate...
. She currently serves on the Los Angeles Chapter of ASID’s Green Committee and Website Committee. Dennis is also a member of the finance committee of the UCLA Interior Design Alumni Association Board.
In 2007 Dennis passed the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Commercial Interiors certification exam, making her a LEED AP professional. Traditionally LEED professionals focus their efforts on public and commercial interiors, but Dennis works on bringing sustainable education and service to the residential sector.
Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Coastal Living, Southern Accents
Southern Accents
Southern Accents is the sixth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1985.The album's first single, "Don't Come Around Here No More," cowritten by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its music video featured Alice in Wonderland imagery...
, Woman’s Day,People
People (magazine)
In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
, "Apartment Therapy", "LUXE
Luxé
Luxé is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
", Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, Dwell
Dwell (magazine)
Dwell is an American magazine devoted to modern architecture and design. It was launched in September 2000 by mail-order heiress Lara Hedberg Deam with architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs as its editor-in-chief. In August 2002 Jacobs left the magazine and was replaced by senior editor...
and many other magazines, books and websites throughout the world. Her firm has been awarded the nation’s best green and modern design by ASID, Home Magazine
Home Magazine
Home Magazine was a magazine published in the United States by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S..Home was founded in 1981 and concluded publication with the October 2008 issue. It appeared ten times a year and had a circulation of one million. Its website, PointClickHome.com, continued updating until...
", "Viking Appliances", Southern Accents
Southern Accents
Southern Accents is the sixth album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1985.The album's first single, "Don't Come Around Here No More," cowritten by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its music video featured Alice in Wonderland imagery...
, California Home and Angeleno Magazine. She
is a featured expert on HGTV
HGTV
HGTV , is a cable-television network operating in the United States and Canada, broadcasting a variety of home and garden improvement, maintenance, renovation, craft and remodeling shows...
, Food Network Channel
Food Network
Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....
, Oxygen Network, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, KABC
KABC
KABC may refer to:* KABC , a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States* KABC-TV, a television station licensed to Los Angeles, California...
and XM Radio. Lori has lectured on green interior design at UCLA, FIDM, Dwell on Design, Alt Build, Design Within Reach and Westweek at the Pacific Design Center
Pacific Design Center
The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a multi-use facility for the design community located in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its outsize nature relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding.-Site and...
.
Her book, Green Interior Design, published by Allworth Press and distributed by Random House
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
, is coming out in the fall of 2010.
Dennis lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
Publications
Dennis’ sustainable interior design work has been featured in2010
- Green Interior Design, Allworth Press, NY 2010
- LUXE Magazine(Fall 2010 Cover Story)
- Dwell MagazineDwell (magazine)Dwell is an American magazine devoted to modern architecture and design. It was launched in September 2000 by mail-order heiress Lara Hedberg Deam with architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs as its editor-in-chief. In August 2002 Jacobs left the magazine and was replaced by senior editor...
(June 2010 p. 12,13) - People Magazine (April 2010 p. 76,77)
- Contract Magazine (March 2010 Modular Arts Advertisement)
- LA Design (Winter 2010 p. 54)
2009
- Modern Interior Design (Book 2009)
- Angeleno Magazine (Fall 2009)
- Icon MagazineIcon MagazineIcon Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine set up in 2005 by ex-professional footballers Tim Sherwood and Jamie Redknapp along with Redknapp's wife Louise. The magazine is the first venture of Redknapp Publications and its readership is exclusive as it is not sold in shops and it is aimed at a...
(July 2009 p 31) - LA Design (Summer 2009 p. 40)
- Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
- Improvement and Design (June 2009 p73) - Coastal Living (May 2009 p44,46,48, 50, 52)
- LA Design (Spring 2009)
- California Homes (February 2009 p40, 44)
- Crossroads Magazine (January 2009 p. 116, 117)
- Southern Accents (2009 p. 21, 30)
2008
- Icon Magazine (December 2008 p. 30, 32)
- Icon Magazine (October 2008 p. 20, 24)
- Home Magazine (July 2008 p. 64, 66, 67, 69,71)
- Woman's Day MagazineWoman's DayWoman's Day is aimed at a female readership, covering such subjects as food, nutrition, fitness, beauty and fashion. The magazine edition is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines....
(2008, p. 16; 2006, p. 52-56, p. 82-87) - Smart Home Owner Magazine (April 2006, p. 46-48; August 2005, p. 39)
- HGTV Magazine
- Small Room Decorating Magazine (August 2008, p. 34-37; December 2007, p. 22-25; April 2006, p. 35-38)
- California Homes Magazine (April 2008, p. 102)
- The Los Angeles Times
- Dwell MagazineDwell (magazine)Dwell is an American magazine devoted to modern architecture and design. It was launched in September 2000 by mail-order heiress Lara Hedberg Deam with architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs as its editor-in-chief. In August 2002 Jacobs left the magazine and was replaced by senior editor...
(June 2008, p. 72) - Modern Design, The American Collection
Awards
- 2010 Viking Appliances Designer of Distinction Award
- 2009 Cherokee Studios LEED Platinum Lofts Showcase for Habitat for Humanity
- 2009 Angeleno Magazine Best Modern Design
- 2008 Dwell Magazine - Top 50 Design Minds
- 2008-2009 ASID/Southern Accents National Residential Green Winner
- 2008 ASID Excellence in Design Residential Green - First Place
- 2008 Home Magazine Best Green Design
- 2008 Home Magazine (p. 64-71's "2008 Best Green Remodel" award)
- 2007 Greenopia Best Green Business Los Angeles
- 2006 Contempo Homes Showcase for Habitat for Humanity
Television
- LXTV Open House 2008, 2009, 2010
- NBC 7 San Diego 2005
- CirocCirocCîroc is a brand of distilled beverage manufactured in France and marketed as a vodka. It is claimed by the drink's promoters that it distinguished from other vodkas by the fact that it is derived from grapes, in contrast to corn, sorghum, rye, wheat, or potatoes that are more commonly used...
Commercial 2010 - RevlonRevlonRevlon is an American cosmetics, skin care, fragrance, and personal care company founded in 1932.-History:Revlon was founded in the midst of the Great Depression, 1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph, along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the "L" in the Revlon name...
Commercial 2010 - Addicted to BeautyAddicted to BeautyAddicted to Beauty is an American reality television show on the Oxygen US television channel about a Plastic surgery and Day spa located in San Diego, California. The series lasted for one season and was not picked up for another year.-Synopsis:...
2009 - Food Network - What's Hot What Cool 2005
- HGTV Designers Challenge 2005
External links
- Lori Dennis, Inc. online store
- Lori Dennis, Inc. on YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- NY Times Article
- 'Apartment Therapy' article on going green
- ASID Biography