Hello everybody, welcome to Dear Alice. Today we have a really special treat for you.

As you guys are gearing up for High Point Market, those of you that are going, it's the end of this week.

And we thought it'd be fun to have one of our favorites come on the podcast as kind of a market week.

We have Benjamin Johnston here with us. And we actually met Benjamin last fall at High Point at the Chaddock showroom as we were going in to see his line and such a treat to get to see him in his own area. And so it might be fun for you. Those of you that are going to market, if you pop by Chaddock, Benjamin, you'll be in, you have a whole bunch of lines. Are you going to be mostly at Chaddock or where else could they find you? I will be at Chaddock most of the time, but because it's also the launch of our book, I will be doing a keynote. I'm one of the fall market keynotes along with some other fantastic designers. It's part of the DLN. They're doing a special keynote on kitchen and bath design. So I'll be there for the keynote, but most of the rest of the time,

I should be on the Chaddock showroom. Amazing. Well, definitely stop by. His scene is obviously one of our

favorites, and he's just so personable and easy to talk to. So make sure and approach him,

because he's one of the designers that will definitely say hi talk to you about design

and even explain his pieces to you which he's worked so hard on but those of you that maybe haven't

heard of benjamin i just wanted to quickly give you a little intro he is the creative partner

of benjamin johnston design an award-winning internationally published firm celebrated for

creating classic curated in effortlessly cool spaces around

the globe. He's also an author of a brand new book, Refined Interiors, Timeless Homes for Modern

Living, a must read for anyone who loves sophisticated spaces with soul. Welcome Benjamin

Johnston to dear Alice. We're so excited to have you here and to have

our guests get to meet you as well. I am so honored to be here. Thank you for having me.

Do you go by Benjamin or, yeah, what do you prefer? I go by Ben, but there's a funny story

behind that and you can Google this gentleman. His name has also Ben

Johnston and he looks remarkably like me, but he's a graphic street artist in Toronto and Canada

and he does all this like really cool design work. And it's a lot of times that people would Google

me, they'd see him thinking it was me and seeing his work and being like, I just don't understand

what it is that you do.

Like, what don't you do?

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