ABOUT LAURIE GATES DESIGNS

Laurie Gates Inc. is and always will be about providing fun and fashionable dinnerware and tabletop accessories to people’s tables across the entire world. Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California with a satellite office in New York City, the 19-person company is owned and operated by Laurie Gates HIMself. Yes - Laurie is a man and not a woman, we’re sorry to say. His family roots are Irish and English and it wasn’t uncommon for men back in the day to be named Laurie. We all still chuckle here at the office when customers ask to speak to HER!

Laurie was born and raised in western Canada. His beautiful and talented mother, an artist in her own right lives on picturesque Vancouver Island. Throughout his life, Laurie always had a love of nature, which had him living for a large part of it in rugged northern Alberta where he had a farm and cattle ranch. In the mid-eighties, he eventually sold his ranch and moved to beautiful and sunny southern California with his then young son.

Laurie immediately fell in love with the bright and happy colors that characterize southern California. The cool blues of the Pacific Ocean to the golden sands of the Coachella Valley’s desert, this backdrop along with his time in western Canada served as the fuel and design inspiration of what is now Laurie Gates Inc.