HBF has added another valuable team member to their New York City sales team with Melissa LeMieux. Melissa’s experience in the furniture industry combined with her passion for design and textiles makes her a knowledgeable and skilled asset to the HBF furniture team.
“Melissa is a wonderful addition to our New York City team,” explains HBF Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Jodi Dykstra. “Her dedication to developing meaningful client relationships while promoting creative solutions will make her a fantastic sales representative for HBF, and we are excited to begin working with her.”
Melissa is a strategic sales manager who partners with architects, designers, and end-users assisting with thoughtful design for the commercial environment. With over 12 years in the furniture industry and a background in textile studies, industrial design, and interiors, Melissa has mastered the balance of reliable client services and passionate industry knowledge. She believes that developing meaningful relationships, paired with strategic and consultative selling is what brings her success in cultivating a brand. Her most recent endeavors include working with a start-up on bringing their brand to the A&D market, and a commercial project in which she was the lead designer, specifying HBF and HBF Textiles. Melissa will be based out of the new HBF showroom in New York’s Flatiron district.
About HBF
HBF reveals the intentionality of design in everything they make through attention to detail and impeccable service. Their expertise comes from understanding how furniture creates relationships between people, environments, and objects — a holistic perspective for living and working. Part of a two-hundred year legacy of furniture manufacturing within North Carolina, HBF produces many of their products locally in Hickory N.C. HBF is recognized for its innovative design and craftsmanship; they collaborate with leading designers to produce furniture with an emphasis on craft, comfort and sustainability. For more information visit: www.hbf.com.
About HBF Textiles
HBF Textiles gives dimension to the lives and spaces of users, designers and communities through the essential qualities of fabric. Their expertise comes from understanding the inherent qualities of fabric—yarn, dyeing, spinning, structure and weave. What they produce is not just textiles, but a larger web of relationships. Weaving textiles together with manufacturing and production, they are part of a two hundred year old legacy of textile manufacturing within North Carolina. And, with like-minded mills and collaborators––locally and globally––they explore the myriad of possibilities of what fabric can be. Visit us at: www.hbftextiles.com.