LIfestyle Design - Balanced, Clean, Calm, Natural... - About Lifestyle Design & Christine Eisner

When my daughter was 8, she asked me why there was a birdhouse on my business card. I told her that it represented how simple life can really be. By creating Campfires and embracing the Four Basics of Balanced Living, living well comes naturally. When you stop and think about it, what really is a birdhouse?

- a sheltered place to
rest,

- a place for belongings,

- an entrance (and exit),

- a view to the outside,

- a place to sit,

- and a comfortable place
for visitors.

For me, this birdhouse is a campfire, a center of positive energy that encourages meaningful experiences. If we take focus a bit of time and thought in the right direction, we can create the experiences of life, instead of the appearance of life.

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Christine & The Thinking Behind Lifestyle Design

Christine Eisner is a designer, consultant and writer whose creative vision shows people how to lead a more balanced and meaningful way of life by transforming their surroundings.

Her innovative approach reaches far beyond fabric and furniture to improve the way people experience their living and working spaces. With an emphasis on comfort, Lifestyle Design offers practical tools and uncomplicated ideas that are easy to implement.

“A home should not look like a page out of a magazine.” Christine says. “It should be an authentic and evolving expression of who you really are and what you value in life.”

Christine’s clients look to her for help translating inner priorities to simplify and enrich their home or work environment.

Her expertise grows out of a decade spent working in New York and London in marketing, communications and event design for Polo/Ralph Lauren and Sotheby’s International Realty as well as in private consultation. Her unique outlook blending cultural elements of Europe, Asia and America springs from extensive experience abroad. With dual Swiss and U.S. citizenship, Christine speaks French, German and Mandarin Chinese.

Since moving to Atlanta in 1999, she has provided private and corporate consultation, led workshops and field trips, and taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She writes a newspaper column on balanced living for Atlanta INtown, and her work has been featured in publications including Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles, PINK magazine and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Lifestyle Design: Christine is a member of IIDA. Her firm promotes balanced living through private and corporate consultation, workshops and presentations, and commentary on her lifestyledesign.org website and blog.

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- Polo/Ralph Lauren: director of public relations, supervised Ralph Lauren’s personal and corporate philanthropic projects to expand one of the world’s biggest lifestyle brands.
- Sotheby’s International Realty and Newmark Knight Frank: created and implemented marketing programs for luxury residential and commercial properties throughout the United States for these two global firms.
- Kavela Communications: founded this consulting firm providing strategic marketing and event design to clients including Special Olympics New York, fashion designer Giorgio Armani and the African National Congress for Nelson Mandela’s New York visit.
- Bank of America: was selected for management training program; worked as part of account team marketing financial services to the telecommunications industry during deregulation.
- Savannah College of Art and Design: taught Lifestyle Design at SCAD and what was formerly known as the Atlanta College of Art
- Georgetown University, B.S., Mandarin Chinese and International Business Studies.
- Shanghai University, lecturer, School of International Business.
- University of Paris, degree in Chinese languages and civilization.
- Atlanta College of Art (now Savannah College of Art and Design), degree in residential interior design.

“The Balanced Home,” by Christine Eisner includes four pages of products and commentary from Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles. For excerpts, click on the article heading above this photo. To download the article, click here. (1.4 MB).