Crystorama Supports Housing Works Design on a Dime 2026
Designing With Purpose: Crystorama Supports Housing Works Design on a Dime 2026
On May 5, 2026, Housing Works welcomed the design community to STORIED NYC for Design on a Dime, its marquee home design benefit and one of the industry’s most spirited celebrations of creativity in service of a greater good. For one night only, guests were invited to shop a collection of beautifully composed room vignettes, each curated by leading interior designers and filled with premium furnishings, lighting, art, accessories, and home décor donated by brands and makers across the design industry.
What makes Design on a Dime so compelling is its rare combination of imagination and immediacy. Each space is designed to be experienced like a room, shopped like a discovery, and remembered as part of a much larger mission. Proceeds from the evening directly support Housing Works’ lifesaving services for individuals and families impacted by HIV/AIDS and homelessness. This year’s event raised nearly half a million dollars, a testament to the generosity of the designers, sponsors, volunteers, brand partners, and guests who helped bring the evening to life.
A Design Event With Purpose
At the heart of Design on a Dime are the designers. Each participating designer is invited to create a fully realized vignette using donated merchandise from the home and design community. These spaces are part installation, part interior story, and part one-night-only shopping experience. Guests walk through each vignette, encounter each designer’s point of view, and have the opportunity to purchase pieces directly from the rooms, knowing that every purchase supports Housing Works’ mission.
For 2026, the event brought together 18 designer-led vignettes, with an incredible roster of interior designers and design studios contributing their creativity, resources, and time. Participating names included Antonio DeLoatch Designs, Apartment 48, Camia Brown Interiors, Dumais Interiors, Everick Brown Design, Jason Saft, Leslie Banker & Co., Mark Cunningham Inc., Petrie Interior Designs, Redd Kaihoi, Robert Stilin, S. R. Gambrel, The Brownstone Boys, Yellow House Architects, and others across the design community.
The result was a layered portrait of today’s design world, thoughtful, expressive, generous, and deeply collaborative. Each vignette offered its own sense of atmosphere, shaped through furniture, lighting, textiles, artwork, and collected details. Together, they created a dynamic experience where design became both personal and purposeful.
“This is my fourth year participating in Design on a Dime. For me, it’s about designing for good—spreading joy and creating spaces where people feel seen, held, supported, and able to truly thrive.” Antonio DeLoatch
Crystorama was honored to support Antonio DeLoatch’s vignette, Embrace, a sensory space rooted in illumination, texture, materiality, and quiet luxury. Conceived as a restorative pause within the energy of New York City, Embrace invited guests into an environment where the city seemed to soften and design became something felt as much as seen.
Antonio’s vignette unfolded with a quiet confidence. Rather than rely on excess, the space drew its strength from balance, warmth, and restraint. Materials were layered with intention. Surfaces invited a closer look. Light moved through the room in a way that softened the architecture of the vignette and gave each detail a sense of presence.
Within this setting, Crystorama lighting served as an important design element. The Smoke Esme Chandelier anchored the vignette, while two coordinating Esme sconces added balance and continuity throughout the space. An Addis sconce in Amber introduced an additional layer of color, texture, and material interest. The lighting worked in conversation with the surrounding materials, including Carlisle Wide Plank Floors’ ash wood, which was used across both the floor and walls to create a warm architectural envelope. Additional contributions from partners including Natuzzi, Leftbank Art, Kravet, and Antonio DeLoatch fabric collection with Sunthreads helped complete the space through furniture, artwork, textiles, and layered decorative details. Together, these elements supported Antonio’s overall design concept and created a vignette that felt thoughtful, tactile, and fully resolved.
This year’s Design on a Dime also received meaningful attention across the design and lifestyle community, including coverage from ABC7 New York with Kemberly Richardson, Designers Today, a Designers Today Instagram interview, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, and Modern Luxury.
