DESIGNERS

Jennifer Welch has spent the last 20 years designing dynamic, highly specialized commercial and residential interiors across the country - in a broad range of styles. Based in Oklahoma City, the self proclaimed perfectionist with an ‘eagle eye ' for detail balances her time traveling the globe sourcing unique pieces for her clients and being on the ground overseeing projects in Hawaii, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Denver, Nashville , Deer Valley, Durango, and Dallas - amongst many others.

Jennifer Welch and her team are highly respected in the industry for their commitment to detail - creating interiors that are specialized to each client’s lifestyle and taste. Her work is best signified as sleek and sophisticated, layered with texture and comfort.

In addition to her design firm, Jennifer is the star of Bravo’s ‘Sweet Home’, which gives all access insight to her multi-faceted, fast paced design business. As her Instagram bio says, she’s very busy…and always ready for more! Beyond interiors, Jennifer is also a product designer with collections that span from furniture and textiles to candles.

A mother of two boys, Dylan and Roman, and partner to photographer Josh Welch - Jennifer understands the balance of family and career and is a vocal advocate for women empowerment in business.

Born in Chicago, Lake + Wells brings stories to life in artisan-made furniture, lighting, and objects. Marrying age-old, living materials and hand-crafted methodologies with modern elements and technology, the husband-and-wife studio’s principle desire is to discerningly bring forth fresh, evocative designs in timeless form.

The storied pieces of Lake + Wells are forged from the harmonious dichotomy of husband-and-wife founders, Mark Kinsley and Tamera Leigh Staten. Founded in 2010 by Mark, son of a Midwest tool-and-die maker, Lake + Wells was premised on utilizing master artisan resources to create timeless and innovative products. In the midst of growing this new company and daylighting as a lighting designer for luxury brands, Mark met Tamera Leigh Staten. She had just returned from England, completing her graduate studies in Children’s Literature, and was working as a graphic designer and an apprentice in antique lighting restoration. Their meeting sparked what turned into a marriage of both life and work as they discovered their creativity expanded exponentially in collaboration with one another. Mark's technical artistry, engineering skills, and focus on functionality pairs uniquely with the dark, creative whimsy of Tamera’s visual storytelling and aesthetic vision.

Driven by an instinctual design ability and innate passion, Joseph Jeup embodies exceptional craftsmanship. He believes that every detail is a design opportunity and, above all, that uncompromising standards yield incomparable results. It is this heartfelt philosophy that has helped establish Jeup as an artist and has fostered a devout following among those who value his pieces and regard them as functional art. For Jeup, his craft is not simply about creating a product. It’s about designing pieces that define lifestyles and redefine luxury. An engineer as well as a designer, the namesake embraces the two equally and uses that knowledge to tackle design from a broad perspective, able to see the many sides of any given project. It’s what compels him as both a craftsman and artist, and what distinguishes his furniture. It’s this perspective and dedication that has made Joseph Jeup one of the most forward-thinking couture furniture designers today and continues to make the furniture he crafts among the most desirable heirloom pieces of tomorrow.

Comprised of a group of talented designers who bring unique perspectives and skills, Grove Studio was created as an atelier that honors quality, timelessness, and harmony. Specialized in the design of luxury hotels, upscale residential and executive settings, their work weaves modern cultural influences with an underlying appreciation of classic forms creating a modern memoir.

A technology driven designer with an intrinsic passion for creating extraordinary things, Michael pushes the boundaries of style with his bespoke works of art. Approaching his designs with an unconventional perspective and proprietary technique, he finds a true sense of creation in exploring the possibilities of form through digital technology and emerging manufacturing processes. His studio was born out of a long stemming desire to branch away from the daily grind of the corporate design world to do something niche and peculiar. Fascinated by the sinuous anatomy found in nature, he began his studies in ornamental horticulture and plant biology, later going on to study a diverse curriculum in traditional arts & digital design earning a degree in Media Arts & Animation. A stint of time spent working in a stereo-lithography lab that catered to the medical industry printing 3-D facsimiles of human skeletal structures helped shape his organic approach to his work. His career has been cultivated through creative roles designing and creating 3-D animated visual effects, digital media art, stage and event designs, exhibitions, and furniture & objects. Over the years, he's designed for clients such as Marvel Studios, Oprah, Ferrari, Microsoft, Samsung, Maytag, Magnavox, Philips, Kodak, LVMH, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Las Vegas resort hotels, and many others.

Marc Kurlander is an award winning furniture designer for both residential and commercial projects. Since receiving his BFA in Industrial Design from Columbia College Chicago, Marc has been active in the fields of furniture, interior, and industrial design while contributing to the theory and philosophy that drive these vocations. For several years, Marc has partnered with numerous Chicago-based design studios working closely with partners and manufacturers to maintain project integrity as design concepts move through each stage to completion. Marc believes that the objects we choose to have in our lives tell a story and reveal our personal identities, how we live and who we are. Determining the aesthetic of objects around us, and what inspires us, helps in the strategic design decisions that enhance quality of life. The objects he designs strive to articulate function and intent through honest form and spatial awareness. You see this most strikingly in Link Outdoors FLUX collection where a thoroughly modern aesthetic is distinctly visible. Marc serves as Link Outdoors Director of Design and Product Development.

Doug Levine is a designer of interiors and furniture. He worked as Director of Design for Holly Hunt, Ltd. for most of the 90's, collaborating with Holly on the debut of the Studio Collection & Great Plains Textiles. Doug created his own design company, L Corp. in 1998. Doug designs furniture that diffuses the lines between traditional, contemporary and classic. For Doug, creation is a process that flows through historical references, digesting without mimicking. He distills only the most essential, or most mysterious, elements, discarding clutter in favor of a subtle state of grace. Doug's designs for Link Outdoor reveal a spot-on intuition for what is needed in a piece of furniture and the result is a deceptively simple sophistication, both elegant and modern.

Known collectively and individually as master colorists, Kentucky-born brothers Doug Meyer and Gene Meyer exercise that considerable talent once again with the 2022 collection, marking their twelfth year designing for Link.

The brothers moved to New York City to attend Parson’s School of Design during the heady days of Studio 54, thereby witnessing the emergence of New York's Soho art scene and experiencing first-hand the heyday of the glamorous fashion world of Seventh Avenue. In their early careers each worked for giants in their respective fields—Doug for SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon, known for cultivating talent of the Pattern and Decoration Movement; and Gene for Geoffrey Beene, then lauded as a dean of American fashion.

Gene is a two-time CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers) winner for his famous menswear and accessories collections, among them the Gene Meyer label for Marshall Field’s that retailed at 60+ in-store Gene Meyer boutiques throughout the US. His residences have graced the pages of The World of Interiors, Architectural Digest USA, AD France. He has designed product for various companies such as Acme Studios, Swid Powel and MoMA New York. Gene currently lives in Tangier, Morocco with his partner Frank de Biasi.

Doug has been named by both Architectural Digest France and AD Germany as one of the top 100 designers in the world. His body of work straddles the domains of interior design and fine art. Doug’s interiors have been featured in New York Magazine, AD France, AD Spain, AD China, Casa Vogue. Daniel Cooney Gallery in New York City represents Doug’s fine art practice, most recently mounting the Doug Meyer Wyldlands exhibition in 2021. Doug’s first book, Heroes a Tribute, debuted in 2019 and arose from an installation that traveled the US in 2018. Doug and his partner Meade Ali are presently building a house designed by Doug in the City of Hudson, NY.

As is typical of the brothers’ aesthetic, their designs for Link express a harmony of geometric shapes, unexpected color combinations, and calming textures, all informed by years of immersion in the worlds of fashion, interior decoration, and art.