Award-winning international designer Bill Stubbs knows about luxury. As one of Architectural Digest’s top 100 designers, Stubbs earned a reputation for his multi-million dollar projects for high-profile clients. But with a philosophy that the experience of “luxury” should be accessible to everyone, Stubbs has also turned his talents to designing community housing projects for the elderly and furnishing on a small budget.

Now Stubbs is bringing his vision of luxury — excellence, comfort and exclusivity — into American homes with Moment of Luxury, a new weekly lifestyle series airing on public television beginning in April 2008. Filmed in high definition from beautiful locations in the U.S. and around the world, Stubbs offers viewers tips on how to bring good, yet affordable, living into their homes and daily lives through home design, food, culture and art.

“As an interior designer, I have created and experienced luxury all over the world,” said Stubbs. “But luxury does not have to be a fabulous home or an expensive piece of jewelry…it can be an embroidered pillow or a simple cup of tea. With Moment of Luxury, I am thrilled to be able share with public television audiences the places, things and people who inspire me the most…and the tools to apply these secrets for luxurious living in their own lives.”

In each of 13 episodes of Moment of Luxury, Stubbs travels to exotic locales in search of design inspiration — from English palaces to Newport and Palm Beach mansions; from French flea markets to New York City showrooms; from Mexican haciendas to Incan ruins. In each episode, Stubbs explores a different city, gaining inspiration from the design, culture, history and food of each area. Then he demonstrates how to apply these inspirations at home to experience a transformative “moment of luxury.”

Along his journey, Stubbs visits with some of the world’s top authorities on design including President and featured designer of Mark Hampton, LLC. Alexa Hampton, Antiques Roadshow expert Eric Knowles, and Architectural Digest Editor-in-Chief Paige Rense.

Sharing his creative vision on entertaining, design and enjoying life to its fullest, Stubbs proves that luxurious moments can be experienced by all viewers, no matter how lavish or modest their budget.

The series of 13, half-hour episodes is presented nationally by WLIW New York. An accompanying website www.momentofluxury.com, which will offer travel and design tips as well as blogs, chats, video previews and original webisodes, featuring material not seen in the series as well as interviews with Stubbs. Additionally, Moment of Luxury: Discovering the Beauty Around You, a new book written by Stubbs, will be published this fall by Gibbs Smith.

Bill Stubbs is president of William W. Stubbs and Associates, a 25-year-old international interior design firm, whose recent projects have taken him around the world to Kiev, Moscow, London, Hawaii, Acapulco, Palm Beach and Houston. His award-winning designs include renovations of historical buildings, private homes and estates, vacation retreats, commercial multi-family properties, community housing projects for the elderly and, most recently, the interior design of a large corporate jet. A popular lecturer, Stubbs is the author of the book: I Hate Red, You’re Fired! The Colorful Life of an Interior Designer (Abrams, 2004).