{"id":102,"date":"2020-09-03T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:39:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/?page_id=102","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"bottom\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>patial <br><strong>E<\/strong>nvironmental <br><strong>E<\/strong>lements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"108\" height=\"110\" class=\"wp-image-6\" style=\"width: 108px;\" src=\"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SEElogo2.gif\" alt=\"SEE Ltd.\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spatial Environmental Elements, Ltd., more popularly know as SEE Ltd. or just <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span>, began in 1984 when the owners of Spatial Design, a NYC design firm, made their first trip to the  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salonemilano.it\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salone del Mobile<\/a> furniture fair in Milan.  There, they fell in love with European furniture and lighting design.  After purchasing more furniture than the could fit in their two homes, the first <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span> furniture store was opened in SoHo, NYC.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New York City embraced <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span>&#8216;s philosophy of presenting high end designer furniture and lighting at a reasonable mark-up, and the business flourished.  In 1990 <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span> moved to a much larger space on Broadway in NY City&#8217;s Flatiron District, and in 1997 they opened another location in Beverly Hills, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2001, the upward pressure on rents made retail business difficult.  The events of September 11th, which stunned NYC and the world, put an end to the retail business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a year, owner Carolyn Walton reinvented <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span> as an agent and importer. Today, <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span> is still dedicated to world of design by representing Catellani &amp; Smith as it&#8217;s USA agent and distributor. <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span> invites you to explore Catellani &amp; Smith products and asks that you please <a href=\"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/?page_id=74\/#bottom\">contact<\/a> Carolyn at <span style=\"font-family: 'Times new roman',times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size: 120%;\">SEE<\/span> with any questions you might have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spatial Environmental Elements Spatial Environmental Elements, Ltd., more popularly know as SEE Ltd. or just SEE, began in 1984 when the owners of Spatial Design, a NYC design firm, made their first trip to the Salone del Mobile furniture fair in Milan. There, they fell in love with European furniture and lighting design. After purchasing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/?page_id=102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeltd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}