LITCHFIELD, Connecticut -- Emma Gardner Design, llc, announced this week that the company will collaborate with Product Lounge, a branding, merchandising and licensing agency, who will help them develop product licensing opportunities in the contract, hospitality and consumer home markets with products that complement Gardner Design's existing line of rugs, throws and pillows.

''Emma Gardner has quickly earned a reputation as a design leader and an innovator whose rugs are able to command heirloom quality prices. We look forward to providing her many fans in the design community with more of the Emma Gardner products they have been requesting, said Jason Rubenstein, Product Lounge partner.

''Our vision is to expand beyond our core business of rug design and we have contracted with Product Lounge to achieve that goal efficiently,'' said Patrick McDarrah, president of emma gardner design, llc.

''The retail, contract and hospitality markets have demanded more of us and we believe licensing programs strategically executed are the best way to maintain high quality production and coherent distribution that will meet this demand.''

Chief designer, Emma C. Gardner, will lead the creative development for all products. Licensed products for the contract and hospitality markets will be design driven and will include carpeting, fabric, wallpaper and furniture.