THE SPEC'd LIST : Inspiration and Conversation

WINTER | 2025

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🥂As the year comes to a close, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to the designers, architects, dealers, manufacturers, and industry friends who made 2025 such a meaningful year.⁠

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Your collaboration, creativity, and trust continue to inspire everything we do. From specifications and site visits to CEUs, celebrations, and a SPEC'd Chili Cook Off, we’re grateful for the partnerships that move our industry forward.⁠

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From all of us at SPEC’d and our incredible brand partners, we wish you a joyful holiday season filled with rest, connection, and inspiration—and we can’t wait to collaborate again in the year ahead.⁠ Cheers to what’s next ✨⁠

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@chilewich + @darranfurniture + @emblembuilt + @ezobord + @infiniumwalls + @nevers_industries + @madebypair + @radfurniture

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@SPECD.SPACE

We hit some amazing milestones in 2025... below is the SPEC'd 2025 Wrapped List...

• Achieved WBE Certification, reinforcing our commitment to women-owned leadership

  
  

• Hosted the SPEC’d Chili Cook-Off, raising $8,000 for Humble Design

  
  

• Honored as Rookie of the Year by our brand partners at Infinium

• Traveled to Milan for Salone del Mobile to experience the Chilewich + Casa Cork installation by Rockwell Group

• Expanded our custom furniture design offerings to include acoustic solutions and case goods

• Proudly supported female-founded organizations including Female Strong, NNG, and Humble Design

• Strengthened industry partnerships across clients and brands on large-scale, high-end projects in the legal, financial and corporate sectors

• WON STITCH Award – Best Use of Materials with BKV Group + Thomas Interiors, featuring Chilewich + Concertex

• Interior Design Magazine – Best of Year Awards:

Hard Flooring: Geo by Chilewich

Contract Case Goods: Central Bark by DARRAN

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CHICAGO INVENTED THE BROWNIE, YOU'RE WELCOME.

In 1893, Bertha Palmer tasked the Palmer House pastry chef Joseph Sehl with a dessert suitable for ladies attending the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition. Her request was simple, a cake-like confection that could easily be transported to the fair within a boxed lunch.

The result was the Palmer House Brownie, made of chocolate to comprise a fudge-like density and topped with a decadent walnut and apricot glaze. The dessert first published reference as “the brownie” following the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, was when it appeared in the Sears Roebuck Catalog published in Chicago in 1898.

Perhaps one of the greatest and most recognizable culinary contributions was the invention of the brownie in the Palmer House kitchen. Order one to enjoy in the gorgeous lobby all decked out for the holidays.

CLICK HERE to download the recipe for a festive treat to share with loved ones.