Michelle Murphy did not enter interior design through a carefully mapped career plan. Growing up around art and entrepreneurship gave her two very different influences, and for a time, it…

Ahmad AbouZanat’s path through design has rarely followed a predictable trajectory. Born in Doha, raised in Lebanon, and eventually building a career in the United States, he has moved between…

Kadie Chiera did not enter the interior design industry as a designer. Her career had been shaped by small companies where she regularly wore multiple hats and became the person…

Élan Design House grew from an unexpected professional crossroads. Kilian Camp and Alison Green had arrived at the same San Diego firm through very different paths, but when that firm…

For Shannon McDonald, becoming an interior designer meant allowing herself to pursue a creative side that had always been present. With a background in psychology and human services and an…

For Tara Hutchinson, interior design is a return to something that had been present since childhood. Long before launching Tara Hutch Home, she was reading design books, rearranging furniture, painting…

For Erin Nordholt, the path to interior design was not direct. Before founding Hackett House Studio, she spent nearly a decade in finance, building a successful career at Morgan Stanley…

For Harper Halprin and Aaron Leshtz, building AAHA Studio was less about following a predetermined business plan and more about allowing years of shared experience to evolve into a practice…

For Yena Jung, every stage of her career has contributed something essential to the way she designs today. A demanding start on Wall Street taught her discipline and analytical thinking.…

Interior design was always part of Dezirae Bruni’s life, even before she realized it could become a career. Surrounded by artists, raised by an entrepreneurial father in construction, and inspired…