Crafting custom looks demonstrates designer’s passion for excellence
Luxury home design is the forté for Beverly Ellsley, president of Beverly Ellsley Design. Her home base of Westport, CT offers the opportunity to design for every type of residence – from 18th century homes to contemporary steel and glass structures.
Ellsley, who has been actively designing since the 1970s, shows no signs of slowing down, now creating beautiful spaces with her daughter Rebecca, who joined her in the business in 1995. She even started her own cabinetry shop for the purpose of implementing her fine furniture-quality cabinets for kitchens, libraries and other spaces with built-in cabinets.
She has served on the design advisory boards of numerous companies, including the Pella Window company, Sub-Zero and Minwax. Her Villa collection of woodcarvings for Enkeboll showcases her love of details, and the design guides she wrote for the company reflect her expressive and meticulous style. Her company has also produced rugs, dinnerware and furniture that feature art she created.
The company’s designs have been published hundreds of times in numerous shelter magazines, newspaper articles and books, and the mother-daughter team has been featured on radio talk shows and television programs. Showhouses are a particular passion, as the designer has participated in at least 25 designer showhomes, including the prestigious Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse in New York seven times.
