Dubai-based furniture supplier Chelsea Green appoints Jennie Stallings to a senior position
Chelsea Green, the Dubai-based furniture consultant and supplier, has appointed Jennie Stallings as partner and commercial manager. Stallings has over 25 years’ experience as an ergonomic specialist, wellness consultant, residential and commercial interior designer, across the United States, the Middle East, and Africa.
Stallings has focussed on creating spaces where people can thrive throughout her career, inspiring her to establish her own wellness consultancy, BeWELL in 2019. She is a certified WELL Accredited Professional who sits on the Movement WELL Advisory Board with the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI).
Now in its fifth year of business, Stallings’ appointment comes as Chelsea Green enters a new phase of growth. It has also undergone a recent brand refresh to reflect its evolution and demonstrate its commitment to workplace wellbeing.
Stallings commented: “I have collaborated with Chelsea Green for many years, so I am very pleased to be joining the team at such an exciting time. There is an understandable shift in attitudes in and around the workplace; our mission is to partner with organisations to shape the physical aspects of a space, now that they are more important than ever. Manufacturers have been designing people-first products for years, but the current climate has put them in the spotlight, inspiring innovation in terms of style, safety and comfort.”
Chelsea Green, founder and general manager Alan McDonald added: “We are delighted to welcome Jennie who will play a crucial role in the future of Chelsea Green, as we respond to clients’ needs. Chelsea Green started as a product provider with a few key brands. Since then, we have grown into an open-source service partner working with multiple global names. Our ethos has always been about more than providing products. We collaborate fully to offer expert consultancy before purchase, and extend our support with an unlimited complimentary after-care model once the furniture is installed.”
Chelsea Green caters to clients across the commercial office, education, hospitality, and healthcare sectors, with furniture brands including HNI, Fritz Hansen, Humanscale, The Senator Group, Connection, KI, ChairClub, and Norman Copenhagen.
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Dubai-based landscape architect Will Bennett launches WILDEN Design
Award-winning Dubai-based landscape architect Will Bennett launches WILDEN Design, a new sustainable landscaping boutique to encourage people to foster and stimulate natural habitats that can thrive in the UAE, by offering clients inspiring, contemporary gardens created using landscaping practices that have a lower environmental impact.
“There is a huge movement globally to live sustainably and to regenerate landscapes for our shared benefit, and this has really inspired the ethos behind WILDEN Design,” says founder Will Bennett. “My mission extends beyond designing beautiful gardens — I want to inspire people to connect to the nature that is on their doorstep in the most meaningful way that I can, by understanding the environment around us and by nurturing it. If we all start to take care of the little piece of the planet that we call home, this behaviour will snowball into helping to conserve and improve the wider world around us.”
WILDEN Design’s landscaping practices focus on using locally-sourced and manufactured materials, and plant and grass species that are indigenous to the GCC or from similar arid climates. Such practices help to minimise resources used in construction and maintenance, whilst generating strong, flourishing ecosystems in residential gardens across the Emirates.
Catering to a growing demand for online consultation, WILDEN Design provides clients with a seamless digital design experience through its website www.wildendesign.com, which employs innovative technologies to map out a client’s plot. Customers receive a bespoke landscape design according to their brief and budget or they can choose from a range of pre-designed thematic gardens that are customised to suit the required plot.
“Every garden, yard, patio and even balcony in the UAE has the potential to generate a thriving natural habitat for people to enjoy and cherish,” says Will. “It doesn’t matter what the scale is — whether it’s ten people or ten thousand — if someone hears my message and is inspired to create a beautiful garden that encourages biodiversity, reduces waste and has a positive climate change impact, then that’s my goal achieved.”