Robert A.M. Stern is a practicing architect, teacher and writer. Mr. Stern, founder and senior partner in the firm of Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York, is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and has received the Medal of Honor of its New York chapter in 1984.

A professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University and the first director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture,Mr. Stern has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on both historical and contemporary topics in architecture.

He is the author of several books, and in addition, eight books on Mr. Stern's work have been published. Mr. Stern's work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and universities and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. Stern has been the subject of a one-man exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of the State University of New York and he designed the section devoted to the 1970's in the Forum Design Exhibition held in Linz, Austria. In 1996, Mr. Stern hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream," an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series aired on the Public Broadcasting System.

Mr. Stern serves on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company and is the current Dean at Yale University School of Architecture.

Mr. Stern's many designs for HBF include the signature Bodleian chair, numerous lounge seating products and several collections of contract fabrics for HBF Textiles.