Over my last five years as an interior designer in New York City, I have contributed to more than 30 hospitality and residential projects in every capacity from client meetings and budgets to on-site management of trades and the creation of construction document sets (see resume and portfolio). I particularly enjoyed designing custom furniture, millwork and carpeting, offering the opportunity to celebrate the unique identity of each space and its inhabitants. All of my work has been informed by a love of geometry and the impact its application can have on a space, from its overall interior architecture to a custom screen design. As a designer I seek to create a geometric language that integrates the restorative with the profound, promoting restful environments with an emotional pulse.

 

Growing up I had both a love of the arts and an aspiration to study the sciences. I spent most of my childhood drawing, fascinated by nature, but at Oberlin College I decided to focus on science and majored in Biology. The following nine years of experience in biological research laboratories have shown me how to distill every situation to its essential components, to ask questions from all possible angles and to consider every solution. I discovered that creativity truly abounds in the lab, but began to feel the pull back to the arts. While continuing full-time work in science, I earned a BFA in Interior Design from the New York School of Interior Design.

 

Having experience with both of these seemingly unrelated disciplines, I have realized the commonality between them. Creativity is necessary in coming up with experimental questions and subsequent answers in the lab while meticulousness and an analytical nature is essential in examining the possible solutions to all the questions that come up in realizing a design project.  It also enabled me to bring the necessary care and precision to my work and develop a systematic approach to apply geometric concepts to interior design, as it is attention to detail and a unique point-of-view that make a space special.