Did you catch a glimpse of the photos taken by Portland Monthly Magazine at the PSO Designer's Showcase 2011 Gala? If you did, you may have noticed the smiling face of Tracy Davis...if you did not, here's a glimpse. … [Read more...]
Portland Monthly Magazine features Tracy Davis in PSO Designer’s Showhouse 2011 Gala Photos
January 28, 2012
PSO Designers’ Showhouse
July 14, 2011
Urban Dwellings is proud announce their participation in the 2011 PSO Show House! With our team assembled, will be redesigning the kitchen and it’s adjacencies. Our design team will consist of the following: Geoff King as General Contractor; Greg Day, Lighting Designer, DayMatero Studio; Herb Clark, Chameleon Coatings; Nick Whatley, Morningstar Granite and Marble; Brady Cushing and Katie Capozza, Old Port Specialty Tile; Frank and Jan Gagnon, Gagnon’s Upholstery; John Paul Toohey, Toohey Painting; Brian O’Neil, O’Neil Consulting; Sharon and Paul Mronzinski, Marston House Antiques. We are so grateful to be working in collaboration with such a wonderfully talented group! Thank all of you for your participation. For ticket information please visit the PSO … [Read more...]
Thank you’s from HSC
April 1, 2011
A few days ago we received an envelope full of thank you notes from the creative kids at HSC. Tracy had a great time getting involved in the community and all of their heartfelt "thank you's" made the experience that much more rewarding! … [Read more...]
Visiting Designer Days at the Hester Street Collaborative
March 18, 2011
Recently Tracy had the opportunity to get involved with the Hester Street Collaborative, a non-profit organization in NYC that focuses on design-build projects in under-served neighborhoods. HSC works with residents and young students in an effort to expose them to the design community and create environments that will serve the area. Tracy led a group of about twenty 5th graders from the HSC’s after-school Garden Collaboration group. The Garden Collaboration Group is working on rebuilding a community garden in the area. They are assigned the roles of architects, designers and gardeners and see the project through conception to completion. Working with donations of pencils, fabric samples and brochures from the Loro Piana Showroom in NYC, the students discussed aloud their … [Read more...]
Happy Holidays from Urban Dwellings!
December 17, 2010
As our world and communities have faced many changes and challenges over the last few years, we at Urban Dwellings are no exception. World and economic circumstance have given us pause to rethink our mission and our business practices. With that said, Urban Dwellings is sending you this Holiday Greeting electronically in lieu of the traditional paper card, opting to donate the monies that we would have spent on our Holiday mailing to the nonprofit organization, Safe Passage. Safe Passage was established by Maine native Hanley Denning in 1999. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Hanley set out to improve the lives of the children and families living near and working in the Guatemala City dump. Her mission: to combat poverty through education. Currently Safe Passage serves nearly 600 … [Read more...]
Tracy Davis featured in Maine magazine Trek Across ME article
June 11, 2010
The trekkers wake up early, slip on their shorts, and leave Sunday River, as early as 6:30 a.m., descending a foggy, cool stretch of two-lane roads. They ride along the Androscoggin River, over skid marks and frost heaves, past logging camps, through Rumford, Weld, and Wilton. Rain or shine. The rollers between Weld and Wilton are pretty tough, especially that five-mile stretch outside of Weld, where teams sing songs to will themselves and their Treks and Cannondales up the largest hill of the ride - I think I can, I think I can - when their legs are stiff and tired and about to give out and they wish they had trained more - and the black flies! - and Oh, I think I can. By nightfall, the clumps of neon riders trickle into the University of Maine at Farmington and set up … [Read more...]
Taylor McIntosh presents “For Ella”
January 20, 2010
At Urban Dwellings we have the pleasure of working with local craftsmen McIntosh and Tuttle Cabinetmakers. Co-owner Todd McIntosh’s youngest son, Taylor McIntosh, currently has a touching photography exhibition at Two Point Gallery located at 564 Congress Street in Portland, Maine. The exhibit documents Taylor’s travels to Guatemala; the birth country of his adopted sister, Ella. While visiting Guatemala City, Taylor volunteered for Safe Passage, a nonprofit organization dedicated to Guatemala’s poorest at risk children. A portion of the exhibition’s proceeds will be donated the non-profit organization. “For Ella” will be on display at the Two Points Gallery at 254 Congress Street until January 30th. We urge the support of a member of the Urban Dwellings family - … [Read more...]
Oak Street Studio
January 8, 2010
A part of staying on top of the best available materials is making room for new samples in a crowded materials library. We are happy to have found a wonderful home for our out-of-date material samples at Oak Street Studio, where budding artists are turning yesterday’s fabrics and fringe into lasting memories. Books drawn by students aged 4 and 5. … [Read more...]
