exciting yin-yang of interior design minds offers chicago

a revolution in customized home interiors

Interior designers Jenny Rossignuolo and Rose Tejeda-Navarre couldn’t be more different—or more alike.

Jenny: Composed and gracious. Eloquent (or maybe it’s the sound of formality in her crisp Australian accent). Cultured by years of living in the United Kingdom and traveling through Europe. Celebrated at the top of her class during her interior design education. Inclined to study details before making a decision.

Rose: Impetuous and wonderfully latin. Fast-talking to keep pace with her endless ideas. Worldwise after having postponed college to work various jobs (such as driving a 20-ton forklift) during more care-free years. A non-stop force of creative nature. Ready to bolt from the gate on a great concept.

Different indeed they are: but just as a day needs a night to complete itself, so did Jenny and Rose—both now highly accomplished and talented designers—find in each other the missing half of a greater whole.

Their relationship began in August 2000, when Jenny interviewed with Rose for an available position at a Chicago design firm. The two instantly bonded, and the following years of collaboration confirmed the powerful middle ground between their polarized experiences.

Both had already identified the lack of trend-setting finishes and materials available to residential consumers for home interiors. They had also noted all that they didn’t see in Chicago’s design marketplace:

the most current wallcoverings (among many other items); a daring, high-energy yet fun and unpretentious shopping atmosphere for home design; and inspiring in-store advice without an architect’s and interior designer’s handsome fees.

Jenny and Rose now offer Chicago its first walk-in design studio where design-savvy urban dwellers can participate in customizing their homes and enjoy immediate access to cutting-edge commercial finishes and materials.

As fate would orchestrate, they one night found themselves with extra time to talk while waiting at a bar for a vendor who never showed. Their ideas and observations bubbled over and connected, and the dream for Urban Source was born.