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Eric Villency
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Design In 1932, Villency"s grandfather, Maurice Villency, started a furniture company in New York City. In 2002, Villency oversaw the launch of the Maurice Villency flagship store, located on 57th street in midtown Manhattan, and launched the company’s first home accessories collection. In 2006, he launched “Villency Atelier”, a workshop dedicated to custom design and fabrication for design professionals.
In 2007, Villency was named the recipient of the IFDA “Design Industry” award.
2008 saw the launch of Villency"s newest business initiative, Villency Pure Design, an environmentally responsible and domestically produced collection of furniture. With the 2008 launch of a business to business service, Villency Contract, Villency has promoted a number of design projects including the Rudy Giuliani Urgent Care Unit at Saint Vincent"s Hospital, the Delta Air Lincolnshire Miami Crown Lounge, the Club level lounge at Citifield, Starwood brands including West hotels and Sheraton, the Bryant Park Hotel, the Plaza private residences, and office for Kathy Lee Gifford.
Villency also contributed to the development of the SoulCycle, an indoor fitness cycle. Fashion Villency, a former model, maintains a connection to the fashion world and has pioneered the Villency Emerging Fashion Fund.
The fund has established partnerships with fashion designers including Proenza Schouler, Derek Lam, Imitation of Christ, Ruffian, and Erin Featherston.
In February 2009, Villency designed the Mercedes-Benz Star Lounge at New York"s Fashion Week. Restoration of the Monarchy is a fashion brand created by Villency in 2007. The line launched in September 2007 with a men"s and women"s denim line.
Julia Restoin Roitfeld, daughter of Carine Roitfeld, is the face of the ad campaign, which ran exclusively in Purple Magazine.
The ad campaign was art directed by Olivier Zham, Purple Magazine"s Editor-in-Chief. Villency is the son of Rowann, a mixed media artist, and Robert Villency, the chairman of Maurice Villency.
Villency is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin. On May 27, 2006, Villency married television personality Kimberly Guilfoyle on the island of Barbados.
On October 4, 2006, Guilfoyle gave birth to the couple"s first child, a boy named Ronan Anthony.
