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KRISTIANA SPAULDING / FOUNDER + DESIGNER

Hello!

It was on a cross country NY to CA road trip with my family, at 8 years old that I first saw and fell in love with Airstream trailers.

In 2003 I founded Silver Trailer. It’s been a wonderful journey collaborating with clients and their big visions over the years. Many friendships have been made!

I BELIEVE:

I BELIEVE in kindness + compassion

I BELIEVE that community sparks creativity

I BELIEVE in exploration + travel

I BELIEVE that form and function belong together

I BELIEVE in you.

Make that dream happen, one little (or big) step at a time.

Shiny best,

Kristiana

“Amazing imagination and creativity, you can’t help but fall in love with her and her art. She’s taken what you would think to be a traditionally male-dominated project and turned it upside down and said, ‘Women can do this too.’ And she’s not only done it, she’s done it well. ”
— Bruce Littlefield, Author of Airstream Living

The long road trip version of how it started…

Airstreams have been a thing for me since I first saw one on a cross country road trip with my family when I was seven. Five of us in a blue VW van, from New York to California and back. Such brave parents!

Fast forward to me living in San Francisco working on my MFA. During that time I made a necklace called “Trailer Dream”. The necklace was a promise to myself that I’d have an Airstream one day. Months later, that dream came true on a road trip through Idaho with my man, Greg. I bought a 1967 Airstream Trade Wind for $1,400. After many repairs and customization, the Airstream became part of my MFA thesis project, and my mobile pop up shop at Hunters Point Shipyard Open Studios for a decade.

After moving to the country, I would tow my Airstream to the local campground to share it with others for camping rentals.

Airbnb was a just a start up then, and cold called me to sign up with them!

More Airstreams came into my life, my intention was to sell them, but I got so attached that I decided to rent them out as well.

One day I said, “My dream is that there’s someone who wants to pay me to road trip with the Airstream. I want that gig!”.

A week later, The Learning Channel contacted me about towing my Airstream to the east coast for 6 episodes for an upcoming show. Manifested! My 1969 GMC, “Chestnut”and I pulled my trailer (see above) over10,000 miles with Osa dog as my co-pilot, and Greg joining us for parts in between. It was an amazing journey both thrilling and challenging, that taught me about spontaneity and grit, about trusting my path, and about believing in the good in people.

That trip sparked a life of fabulous road trips, friends, dreamy locations, and collaborations with amazing brands, both big and small.

Here’s to putting it out to the universe and making it happen.

Shiny best,

Kristiana