[1]Robb & Stucky Interiors : Sarasota’s Lifestyle Defined
by Lalaena Gonzalez-Figueroa
lifestyle photography by Chad Spencer
Founded in 1915 in Fort Myers, Florida as a one-store general merchandise emporium, Robb & Stucky set the standard early on for tasteful design created to enhance its clients’ lifestyles. Today, the company is one of the nation’s most influential interior design and home furnishings showrooms. Its unique approach focuses on creating “lifestyle” displays, offering customers the opportunity to truly implement their home-decorating visions into interior realities. Robb & Stucky’s facilities, located in Florida, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina and Nevada, feature capacious showrooms, interior design services, and an array of programs designed to facilitate collaborative relationships with real estate professionals, builders and developers.
The Robb & Stucky Showroom: The Ultimate Lifestyle Design Experience
[2]At over 65,000 square feet, Sarasota’s Robb & Stucky Showroom offers customers an unparalleled opportunity to explore their home design options. Uniquely arranged “lifestyle” displays create dramatic spaces complete with home furnishings, accessories, and wall colors. “The showroom has been designed to appeal to the senses,” explains Michelle Pendleton, Director, Business Development for Robb & Stucky Interiors. “We offer interiors that cater to a host of lifestyles, including formal, casual, contemporary and relaxed.” Layer upon layer of options await customers, who have the opportunity to explore options for family rooms, living rooms, studies, bedrooms and dining rooms within the spacious showroom.
Robb & Stucky’s impressive Sarasota showroom also features one of the largest in-house custom drapery and flooring departments in the United States, with in-house drapery and fabric workrooms and a complete library of manufacturer’s products. -In the event that customers aren’t able to find exactly what they desire within the showroom, Robb & Stucky design professionals will assist them in custom orders.
In addition to some of the world’s best-known home furnishing and design lines, Robb & Stucky showrooms 
[3]also feature the company’s signature private-label furniture collections, designed specifically to meet the needs of today’s luxury buyer. Collections include Robbie, inspired by classic furniture forms with a modern interpretation; New Attitudes, featuring a blend of elegant designs, modern comforts and exotic materials; Uptown, an homage to modern, urban style; Paloma, an updated interpretation on Mediterranean decor; Watercolors, designed to reflect Sarasota’s own tropical lifestyle; and Island Style, which blends textures and materials to create a unique and comfortable ambiance.
Robb & Stucky Rewards: A Unique Partnership with Real Estate Professionals
Formerly known as the “Design Line,” Robb & Stucky Rewards is a one-of-a-kind business partnership designed to help real estate professionals distinguish themselves within their niche markets. Over one thousand agents have registered with the program, which allows associates to provide their clients with Robb & Stucky gift certificates at the close of a transaction. “It’s a partnership we have created with the real estate community, designed to assist real estate professionals to promote their business with their clientele,” offers Pendleton. “Certificates are provided compliments of Robb & Stucky in the agent’s name, and enable recipients to select a beautiful accessory or accent piece for their new home.”
[4]Developed by General Manager Rick Clary and CEO Clive Lubner, Robb & Stucky Rewards is an innovative concept in keeping with the firm’s philosophy that excellence in product and service is the key to longevity and success. “One of our objectives as a company is to continue to develop partnerships with real estate professionals, builders and developers,” Pendleton explains. “We are committed to offering services and programs that are designed to meet their specific needs, along with those of our retail customers.” In addition to ongoing seminars and offsite model tours, Robb & Stucky also hosts events within their showroom which are designed to bring recognition and exposure to area builders and developers. “We have built our reputation on being not only a world-class provider of home interiors, but also on being a very viable and active part of our community,” states Pendleton. “We recognize the importance and value of helping to facilitate the success of other industry professionals.”
Focusing on established and rising builders and developers within the region, the Robb & Stucky Builder of the Quarter program is a new venture designed to bring notoriety to model homes and communities that are emerging throughout Sarasota and Manatee Counties, and to acquaint others with the builders’ backgrounds and objectives. In addition to promoting selected builders through inserts of collateral material in regional quarterly catalogues, the firm will also apprise their impressive database of real estate professionals with information on upcoming projects in their quarterly mailings.
Robb & Stucky Design Services: Exceptional Support and Assistance
[5]Boasting Florida’s largest group of licensed interior designers and design consultants, Robb & Stucky’s Sarasota showroom offers a wealth of services created to enhance the design planning process. An in-house computer aided drafting (CAD) department enables clients to translate space into visual layouts, aiding in the planning and design of space and furniture in individual living areas and the entire home. From new-home buyers to those looking to renovate existing spaces, the design team at Robb & Stucky helps clients transform their ideas into settings that mirror their unique lifestyles.
Furthering the firm’s collaborative partnerships with real estate professionals, Robb & Stucky offers agents the opportunity to work exclusively with a designer who understands the unique needs of that agent’s niche market. “Our aim is to facilitate a productive personal relationship, to create a seamless conversion so that a real estate professional can place, with trust, his or her client into the hands of one of our well-qualified designers,” Pendleton says. “The service is available at no cost to agents or their clients, and enables buyers to transition a new house into a home that reflects their own personal style.” When applicable, designers will even work with licensed contractors on large-scale remodeling endeavors, helping to keep the client’s ultimate design destination at the forefront of the project.
An informative design seminar program features free seminars and special events created to introduce new 
[6]trends and design themes to consumers and professionals. Led by industry experts, nationally-recognized interior designers, and Robb & Stucky’s own award-winning team of design professionals, the seminars and events offer exciting and unique opportunities to explore the latest in the world of residential design.
With a world-class showroom, award-winning services and a full range of designs suited for every lifestyle and decor preference, Robb & Stucky offers accessible elegance for the residential and commercial design needs of Sarasota and Manatee Counties.
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Robb & Stucky Interiors
7557 South Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34231
Phone: 941-922-2274
www.RobbStucky.com
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