BIOGRAPHY

2006

As grandson of Charles Pavarini, Sr., Charles Pavarini III has reinterpreted the legacy of the Pavarini Construction Company, known for creating historic landmarks including the Seagrams  Tower, the United Nations, the State Theater at Lincoln Center, and numerous other landmark buildings in New York City and throughout the world.  Charles Pavarini III graduated at the top of his class with a B.F.A. in Architecturally Based Interior Design, winning the Bronze Medal for Design Achievement in 1980.  After working as Design Assistant to the legendary International Designer, Ruben de Saavedra, ASID, Charles gained pivotal career-building experience which allowed him the opportunity to develop his own design sensibility--thereby setting his own firm into motion in 1981, Pavarini-Cole Interiors, Inc.  As founding principals, he and Elizabeth B. Cole, IIDA, DLF, produced residential and commercial interiors in New York City and State, Connecticut, New Jersey, Texas, Arizona, Florida, and Ohio.  When Elizabeth retired at the end of 1997, Charles became sole principal of Charles Pavarini III Design Associates, Inc. and has continued to uphold the distinguished achievement standards set forth by Pavarini-Cole.

The work of Charles Pavarini III has been recognized by numerous organizations throughout the design industry.  Charles holds interior design license accreditation in the State of Connecticut and is an active member of IDLNY, an organization which supports accreditation of interior design in the State of New York.  Charles was a charter member of the International Society of Interior Designers (ISID) and was elected to the Board of Directors of the New York Chapter for fifteen years.  During that period he served a term as President of the N.Y. Chapter of ISID and was subsequently appointed ‘International Representative’.   He received numerous Presidential Citations from ISID for his contribution and outstanding work.  Charles later became facilitator for the formulation of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and remains a charter member.  In addition, he served on the Executive Board of Directors of the Designers Lighting Forum for six years and is currently on the board of managers.  This year, Charles Pavarini III is a participating designer in The Designer Showhouse of New Jersey.

Pavarini-Cole Interiors, Inc. was a featured design team in the northeast edition of “Showcase of Interior Design” published by Vitae Publishing, Inc.  In addition, the firm is featured in “For Your Home: Bedrooms” by Jessica Elin Hirschman, published by Little Brown and Co.  Their installations are used for illustration in the interior design textbook titled, “Interiors” by, Nellson-Taylor, William C. Brown Publishers.  Their work was included in the 1989/1990 edition of “Architects of the United States of America”, published by the Images Publishing Group, Melbourne, Australia.  Additional publications have included the New York Times, House Beautiful, Southern Accents, Home Entertainment, Modern Millionaire, The Designer, and McCall’s.  The firm won the 1984 Design Elements Award, sponsored by the resource council.  Charles was selected by the Wool Bureau to design a fabric and a coordinating carpet featured at NEOCON 1988 and later designed carpet for commercial production.  In February of 1999, Charles was featured on HGTV for designing a Music Salon for the actress and recording artist Vanessa Williams and again during the summer of 2000 for a dining-room in the 2000 Hudson River Designer Show House.  Charles Pavarini III Design Associates, Inc. was also selected to design the Salle de Bain in the 1999 French Designer Show House in Manhattan.  In February of 2001, the firm was featured on the cover of Phoenix Home & Garden for creating ‘Theatrical Interiors (that) Redefine Southwest Style’.  In the fall, the firm participated in the Abigail Adams Show House for the Colonial Dames of America with an outdoor garden vignette.  In 2002 the firm won 4 First-Place awards given by the IIDA.  They include First-Place for a Residence Over 3,000 s.f., (the project featured in Phoenix H&G), First Place for Product Design, (a cantilevered desk veneered in Fruitwood), First Place for a Special Function Room, (the Dining Room of the 2000 Hudson River Show House), and  the Designers’ Choice award for Best Designer in the competition.  In 2003, the firm won two First Place awards given by IIDA.  They include First-Place for a Residential Single Space (A Music Salon for Vanessa Williams) and the Designers’ Choice Award for the second year in a row.  In 2004, the firm again won two awards by IIDA.  One was given for the bathroom in the 1999 French Designer Showhouse and the other for Cabin 17 of the Kips Bay Showhouse 2003.  Articles about his work have been published in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Staten Island Advance, Camelback Magazine, 201 Magazine, and Sources and Design Magazine over the last five years.  Last year the firm participated in the 2005 Designer Showhouse of New Jersey with a stately Sitting Room and this year in the 34^th Annual Kips Bay Showhouse with a room called Buonanotte.

During the summers of 1998 and 1999, Charles dedicated himself to academic pursuits.  He went on sabbatical to study product design and marketing under Massimo Vignelli at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.  From there he studied Palladian Architecture throughout Venice, Florence, and Vicenza under Manuel Ponce León.

In addition to his academic interests, Charles’ extensive background in theater as performer, costume designer, and scenic designer/stylist still plays an avid role in his life.  During the fall of 1999 he designed the sets and costumes for the Off-Broadway production of “Celestina”, and during the fall of 2001, he designed and constructed the sets for an off-Broadway production of “Mornings at Seven”. 

Annual fund-raising events have also included theme design and execution, not to mention dozens of charity benefits to raise money for organizations like Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Bailey House and The March of Dimes.  For the second year in a row, Charles Pavarini III has launched the Kips Bay Annual Summer Cruise:  a fundraiser with Kips Bay Designers which Charles himself developed to fund the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club. 

CHARLES E. PAVARINI, III

IIDA, DLF, Associate ASID

EDUCATION                     B.F.A. from the New York School of Interior Design, New

York, New York.  Graduated with the Bronze Medal for

Design Achievement.  Continued education in Product Design and

Marketing, Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1980 - 1981               Assistant to Ruben de Saavedra, ASID

1981                          Founding principal: Pavarini-Cole Interiors, Inc.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

1981 - 1994               Charter member: New York Chapter, ISID (International

 Society of Interior Designers).  1981-94, Board of Directors:

 New York Chapter, ISID; 1989-90, Second Vice President; 1991-92, Vice President;

 1993 President

1985 - 1994             Member: The Designers Lighting Forum (DLF).  1985-91,  Board of

Directors;  1987-90, Secretary

1989 -                      Member: IDLNY (Interior Designers for Licensing New York)

1992 - 1993             Board of Directors: One Voice - guidance council for unification

1994 -                      Founding Member: The New York Chapter, IIDA (The International

Interior Design Association).  1994-95, Board of Directors, Residential

Forum Representative

1982 - 1985             Associate Member: ASID (American Society of Interior Designers)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1983                        Chairperson: The International Society of Interior Designers’ Design

Showhouse, New York City, Sara Delano Roosevelt House

1989                        Featured speaker, Lighting World Exhibit, Jacob K. Javits convention Center of New York.

1990                        Listed in ‘Who’s Who in Interior Design’

1994                        Installation Coordinator: Habitat for the 90’s, sponsored by ‘House Beautiful.’

MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES

1971 – 1998       New York and National Theatre accreditations (Resume upon request)

1983 – 2006       Fund-raising Chairperson for:

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Cabrini Medical Center

God’s Love We Deliver

The March of Dimes

Meals on Wheels

Northern lights

Phoenix Productions                        

Starlight Foundation

The Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club

1985 – 1987        Member of the Lennox Hill Neighborhood Association

1997                    Event Designer:  March of Dimes Gourmet Gala, Phoenix AZ

1998                   Featured designer:  The Madam C. J. Walker Designer Show House: A Music Salon for Vanessa Williams

                           Interviewed by Judy Kohn on HGTV at the Madam C. J. Walker Show House                          

1999 - Present   Board of Directors: The Designers Lighting Forum (DLF)

2000                   Featured designer: 2000 Hudson River Designer Show House, The Dining Room

           The Dining Room featured on HGTV with Chris Madden

2001                   Featured designer, cover: Phoenix Home & Garden, February 2001

Featured designer:  2001 Abigail Adams Show House for the Colonial Dames of America

2002                     Winner of 4 First Place Awards by the International Interior Design Association (IIDA)

                                                -  First Place for a Residence Over 3,000 s.f.

                                                -  First Place for Product Design

                                                -  First Place for a Special Function Room

                                                -  Designers’ Choice Award for Best Designer

2003                    Featured Designer:  2003 Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse

                            Winner of 2 First Place Awards by IIDA

-  First Place Residential Single Space

-  Designers’ Choice Award for Best Designer

2004                    Winner of 2 Design Awards by IIDA

                                                -  Second Place for Residential Single Space

                                                -  Merit award for Residential Single Space

2005                     Featured Designer:  The Designer Showhouse of New Jersey

             Chairman and Inventor of the first-ever Kips Bay Designers  Summer Cruise aboard the Princess Yacht

2006                      Featured Designer:  2006 Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse

                              Chairman of the 2nd Annual Kips Bay Designers  Summer  Cruise aboard the Princess Yacht

                              Winner of a Presidential Design Award by IIDA

                              Chairman of the New York School of Interior Design's 90th Alumni Reunion

2007                       Featured Designer: 2007 Rumsen Designer Showhouse

                               Chairman of the 3rd Annual Kips Bay Designers  Summer  Cruise aboard the Princess Yacht