- Nate Berkus
Nate Berkus (born September 17 , 1971 ) is an American interior designer and decorator and a survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami . He runs an interior design firm in Chicago , Nate Berkus Associates, and has been a regular guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show , on which he offers design advice to viewers. Berkus was born in sunny Southern California , and grew up mainly in suburban Minneapolis . He graduated from Lake Forest College near Chicago in 1994.
- Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck has designed an array of masterpieces from hotels to toothbrushes motorbikes to furniture. His love of streamlined, "horn" shapes is obvious and this is what makes his ingenuity appear inexhaustible. Philippe Starck is undoubtedly a star in the design and architectural world.
- Thom Filicia
Thom Filicia (born May 17, 1969) is the interior design expert on the American television program "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." He is also a co-author of a book based on the show.
- Linda Barker
Linda Barker (born 6 October 1961) is an interior designer and television presenter from a village near Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. Barker studied Fine Arts at the West Surrey College of Art and Design. She then did odd jobs in various areas including fashion, before settling into a career as an interior designer. An accomplished painter, she did up her flat in Battersea and was the subject of a House Beautiful magazine spread on interiors.
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (11 March 1965 in London) is an English interior designer and television personality best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme "Changing Rooms". He is noted for his flamboyant personality and for affecting a dandyish appearance. He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn Bowen", and the components of his name are frequently misspelled "Llewellyn" and/or "Lawrence".
- Sister Parish
Sister Parish was an American interior decorator and socialite. She was the first interior designer brought in to decorate the Kennedy White House, a position that was soon usurped by French interior designer Stéphane Boudin. Despite Boudin's growing influence, Parish's influence can still be seen at the White House, particularly in the Family Dining Room and Yellow Oval Room.
- Vern Yip
Vern Yip (born June 27, 1968 in Hong Kong) is an interior designer. He periodically appeared on "Trading Spaces" through its fourth season. He was one of the panel of judges on HGTV's "Design Star" in 2006.
- Ann Maurice
Ann Maurice (born 1951 in California, USA) is an American House Stager, perhaps best known in the UK as TV's "The House Doctor"
- Tracy Reese
Tracy Reese (born on February 12, 1964 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American fashion designer. Tracy is the daughter of Claud (a manager) and Pat (a modern dance teacher). The women in the family always had an interest in sewing and would have contests to see who could complete an outfit first. This was when Tracy's interest in fashion first emerged. Tracy attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit where she was initially interested in interior design and architechure.
- Elsa Peretti
Elsa Peretti (born May 1, 1940) is an Italian jewelry designer. She was born in Florence, Italy, the daughter of a well-to-do Roman family. Educated at Volbicela School in Rome, with a diploma in interior design. She moved to New York in the 1960s, where she began designing jewelry for a handful of top designers, including Halston, Oscar De La Renta, Giorgio di Sant'Angelo and Tiffany. She designed the containers for Halston's fragrance and cosmetic lines, …
- Adam Tihany
Adam Tihany is an American interior designer and interior architect. He was named one of the greatest American interior architects by The New York Times in 2001. He has been comissioned to design the Mandarin Hotel in Las Vegas, the Shangri-la Hotel in Singapore and other hotel projects in New York, London and Los Angeles.
- Kirstie Allsopp
Kirstie Mary Allsopp (born 31 August 1973 in Hampshire) is a British TV presenter best known for presenting Channel 4 property programmes "Location, Location, Location", "Relocation, Relocation", "Location Revisited" and "The Property Chain". All but the last were co-presented with Phil Spencer. She is the daughter of Charles Henry Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip and former chairman of Christie's, …
- Kerry Joyce
Kerry Joyce is an award winning interior designer and product designer. He directs the firm Kerry Joyce Associates, which has offices in Los Angeles and Connecticut. In addition to his popular line of furniture, lighting and rug designs, Joyce's firm has earned acclaim for a wide variety of residential interior design projects. Joyce was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
- John Amabile
John Amabile (prenounced Am-ab-illy) is a Scottish interior designer. He is best known in Scotland and the UK for his work on many TV shows.
- Carl Larsson
Carl Larsson (May 28, 1853-January 22, 1919) was a Swedish painter and interior designer. The Swedish artist Carl Larsson was born in Gamla stan, the old town in Stockholm. His parents were extremely poor and his childhood was not happy. However, at the age of thirteen his teacher at the school for poor children urged him to apply to the "principskola" of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and he was admitted. During his first years there, Larsson felt socially inferior, …
- Steven Sabados
Steven Sabados is a Canadian television-show host, interior designer and writer. Along with co-host Chris Hyndman, Sabados stars in the first three seasons of "Designer Guys", a Canadian design show which is broadcast in over seventeen countries. In 2003, Sabados and Hyndman debuted a new show with a similar format, titled "Design Rivals", and more recently a makeover show called "So Chic With Steven and Chris".
- Frances MacDonald
Frances MacDonald (1873-1921) was a Scottish artist whose design work was a prominent feature of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s. The sister of better known artist Margaret MacDonald, she was born near Wolverhampton, and moved to Glasgow with her family in 1890. Both sisters enrolled in painting classes at the Glasgow School of Art in 1891, where they met the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and artist Herbert MacNair.
- Robert Denning
Robert Denning (March 13, 1927 - August 26, 2005) was an American interior designer whose lush interpretations of French Victorian decor became an emblem of corporate raider tastes in the 1980s.
- Fortunato Depero
Fortunato Depero (March 30, 1892 - November 29, 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer. Although born in Fondo (in the Italian Trentino region), Depero grew up in Rovereto and it was here he first began exhibiting his works, while serving as an apprentice to a marble worker. It was on a 1913 trip to Florence that he discovered a copy of the paper "Lacerba" and an article by one of the founders of the futurism movement, …
- Vincent Fourcade
Vincent Gabriel Fourcade was a French American interior designer and the business and life partner of Robert Denning. "Outrageous luxury is what our clients want," he once said.
- Lucian Bernhard
Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn, but changed in 1900 to his more commonly known pseudonym. The family of typefaces he developed is called Bernhard. He was a professor in Berlin at the "Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums" 1923, when he emigrated to the United States, …
- Connie Mason
Connie Mason (born 24 August 1937 in Washington, D.C.) is an American model and actress who was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1963 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Connie attended a private school for girls in Danville, Virginia, and got married at the age of 16. After having two children, she got divorced at 21 and moved to Florida to be near her mother and stepfather.
- Leandro Locsin
Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994) was a Filipino Architect, Artist, and Interior Designer, known for his use of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his various projects. An avid collector, he was fond of modern painting and Chinese ceramics. He was proclaimed a National Artist of the Philippines for Architecture in 1990 by President Corazon C. Aquino.
- Robyn Flach
Web designer/developer working in HTML, CSS, PHP, MySql, Flash, javascript, and utilizing the Adobe CS4 suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, on both Mac and Windows platforms. Experience in graphic, interior, and costume design. Extensive experience in general and operations management in the home and office furnishings industry.
- Hilton McConnico
Joseph Hilton McConnico is a designer and artist who was born in Memphis, Tennessee but has lived and worked in Paris since 1965. After working in fashion for such designers as Ted Lapidus and Yves St. Laurent, he was set designer & art director for more than 20 films, including the cult classic "Diva." In 1990 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art held a retrospective of 30 years of his creations.
- Michael Reardon
Michael Reardon is an English architect, historic building consultant, and interior designer. He worked on the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, as well as being the inspecting architect for Birmingham's St. Philip's Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral. His most notable project, the Swan Theatre, was aided by Tim Furby. The theatre was designed for The Royal Shakespeare Company in the shell of the original festival theatre.
- Michael Reardon
Michael Reardon is an English architect, historic building consultant, and interior designer. He worked on the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, as well as being the inspecting architect for Birmingham's St. Philip's Cathedral and Hereford Cathedral. His most notable project, the Swan Theatre, was aided by Tim Furby. The theatre was designed for The Royal Shakespeare Company in the shell of the original festival theatre.
- Herbert MacNair
James Herbert MacNair (1868 - 1955).was a Scottish artist, designer and teacher whose work contributed to the development of the "Glasgow Style" during the 1890s. Born in Glasgow into a military family, MacNair trained as an architect with the Glasgow firm of Honeyman and Keppie from 1888 to 1895, and it was there that he first met Charles Rennie Mackintosh. As part of their training, the two attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art between 1888 and 1894, …
- Tanya Gyani
Tanya Gyani (born 1980 in Chandigarh, India) is an interior designer, whose approach to interior design is modern yet inspired from nature and organic elements. Gyani graduated from the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi, India in 2002 and completed her Masters in Interior Design from the Florence Design Academy in Florence, Italy in 2005 where she was awarded the Elite Student Award of the FDA.
- Mireya Moscoso
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez de Arias was the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004, representing the Arnulfista Party. Moscoco has an interior design diploma from Miami-Dade Community College in the United States, and she is the widow of former President Arnulfo Arias.
- Timothy M. Sullivan
Timothy M. Sullivan (born October 24, 1977) is an interior designer and entrepreneur in Boston. A specialist in antiques and fine art, Sullivan designs private residences worldwide. Sullivan was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and raised in Leominster, Massachusetts. In 2000 he graduated "Summa cum laude" and Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. in History of Art from Boston College.
- Sabrina Le Beauf
Sabrina Le Beauf (born March 21, 1958) in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is an American actress who was born to an African-American father and a white mother of English descent. LeBeauf grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in New York. Le Beauf is best known for her portrayal of Sondra Huxtable Tibideaux on the NBC sitcom, "The Cosby Show". She has voiced the character Norma Bindlebeep on the Nick at Nite animated series, "Fatherhood", …
- Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (Born 17 February 1699 at Kuckädel in Crossen an der Oder, (Krosno Odrzańskie); Died 16 September 1753 in Berlin) was a painter and architect in Prussia. A soldier in the service of Prussia, Knobelsdorff resigned his commission in 1729 as captain so that he could pursue his interest in architecture. In 1740 he travelled to Paris and Italy to study at the expense of the new king, Frederick II of Prussia.
- Joseph Christian Lillie
Joseph Christian Lillie, also known as J.C. Lillie, (March 20, 1760- January 29, 1827) was a Danish neoclassical architect and interior designer. His early career was in Denmark, where he is mainly known for his interior designs and furniture production. His later career was in Schleswig-Holstein, where he is known for his independent architectural works.
- Leon Pescheret
Leon Rene Pescheret was a designer, etcher, and illustrator born in Chiswick, England in 1892. He studied interior design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Among his design projects was the Memorial Union building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He authored the book "The Principles and Practice of Interior Decorating" in 1925. He later studied etching and operated a studio in Whitewater, Wisconsin for several years.
- Dana Halabi
Dana Halabi is a Lebanese singer and model. She was born in Kuwait on January 18, 1987. She spent most of her childhood in Tripoli. She has one brother and one sister and is studying Interior Design. She started modelling in 2001 and was named Miss Magic Eyes 2003-2004, Miss Oriental Dance 2004, and 1st Runner up Miss Resort.
- James Gillespie Graham
James Gillespie Graham was a Scottish architect, born in Dunblane. He is most notable for his work in the Scottish Gothic style (sometimes called Scottish baronial), as at Ayton Castle. His work was heavily influenced by that of Augustus Pugin. Graham designed principally country houses and churches. He is also well known for his interior design, his most noted work in this respect being that at Taymouth Castle and Hopetoun House. His principal works include St.
- Elise Fouin
Elise Fouin is a French designer. She was educated in Paris at Ecole Boule. Her designs range from spectacular interior designs to individual items such as lamps, chairs, etc. Fouin has been profiled in the French design magazine Intramuroa.
- Harold Grieve
Harold Grieve was an motion picture art director and interior designer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he attended Hollywood High School then studied art at the "School of Illustration and Painting" run by John Francis Smith in Los Angeles. In the early 1920s Grieve went to work in the film industry as a set designer and art director.
- Dafne Molina
Dafne Molina Lona is a Mexican model who represented her country in the 55th Miss World Pageant, held in Sanya, China on December 10 2005. Prior to becoming a beauty queen, Dafne Molina participated in Elite Model Look Mexico 2002 and later received her diploma in interior design. On September 10, 2004, she competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico, held in San Luis Potosí.