“Designing starts with the magnificent materials with which we desire to work. It is from this point that our ideas take form and come to life,” says Starr. “Every individual design is about the art of perfecting the use of our materials and pushing the envelope when it comes to shapes and forms that we desire.”
Starr initially began producing furniture in the late 1990s, opening a store called Atmosphere in San Francisco in 2000, followed by stores in New York (SoHo) and Los Angeles. After a trip to Sao Paolo, where she discovered an unparalleled level of furniture engineering and craftsmanship, she shifted her focus to the interior design trade, closing Atmosphere and opening Moura Starr showrooms in New York’s D&D building, SoHo and the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.
Now made in several regions of the world, including in the United States, the furniture incorporates an amazing array of materials, including rich and exotic hardwoods, lavish leathers and sheets of exquisite crystal. The wood pieces radiate with the lush, pure beauty of the specialized materials from which they are made: Louro Preto, Black Figueira, Carvalho and Pau Ferro woods, each with its own individual and distinctive colors and grains.
A retail collection debuts in Fall 2010 at Shelley Starr Home, a new Moura Starr division in New York at 121 Wooster Street in SoHo.
Moura Starr brand furnishings, lighting, textiles, and wallpaper are available exclusively at two trade showrooms:
D&D Building
979 Third Avenue, Suite 401
New York, NY 10022
212.888.9058
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Ave, Suite B547
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310.854.9100
The Moura Starr collection is represented at:
Allan Knight & Associates
150 Turtle Creek Blvd # 101
Dallas, TX 75207-6809
214.741.2227
For more information on Moura Starr home furnishings, Windfall Contemporary Crystal Lighting,
or any other Moura Starr products, please call 310.385.8003
