Stacy Garcia, a leading fabrics designer well known within the hospitality industry for saturated colors and clean, contemporary styling, has received an ADEX Platinum Award for her Sunbrella Oasis Collection. The ADEX Awards Competition is the largest and most prestigious awards program for the design of furniture, fixtures and finishes marketed to the design trade.
"This is the second year in a row that we have received an ADEX Award," Garcia said. "The Platinum Award places our Oasis collection as one of the truly premiere products in its class."
Stacy Garcia studied textile design at Central St. Martins in London, England, before earning her BFA in Surface Pattern Design from Syracuse University. She started her career at Ralph Lauren Home Collection assisting with design layouts, and showroom development, and went on to create original designs for bedding and drapery.
Garcia spent five years as the senior designer for Richloom Contract Fabrics before starting her consulting firm, LebaTex, Inc. in 1999. Since then, she has produced licensed collections for John Wolf as well as Douglass Industries. Her prints have appeared in the Bloomingdale's catalogue.
Since the introduction of her self-titled print collection in 2003, Stacy has been creating a buzz in the hospitality industry. Her fabrics have been sold to numerous hotels and resorts, including Hilton, Sheraton, Doubletree, Marriott, along with several boutique hotels and resort properties.
