People Who Influence Me!
Terri Taylor
Terri led an award-winning interior design practice, specializing in residential interior design and remodeling, luxury hospitality environments, and commercial and medical interiors for nearly 30 years. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, ASID Icon, Sunset Magazine, LUXE, Design West, Tucson Home & Garden, and Tucson Lifestyle, among others.
She brings more than 30 years of professional interior design experience and remodeling expertise to her firm, and she continues to earn top awards in regional and national design competitions.
Terri received her NCIDQ certification in 1993, and is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). She holds an Arizona Contractor’s License, and served as a juror for Sunset Magazine, and the ASID Interior Design Awards of Excellence.
Recently I attended one of her workshops in Santa Fe. It was VERY enlightening and I would highly recommend this professional development investment to all designers who want to take their business to the next level. #designbizbllueprint
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She brings more than 30 years of professional interior design experience and remodeling expertise to her firm, and she continues to earn top awards in regional and national design competitions.
Terri received her NCIDQ certification in 1993, and is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). She holds an Arizona Contractor’s License, and served as a juror for Sunset Magazine, and the ASID Interior Design Awards of Excellence.
Recently I attended one of her workshops in Santa Fe. It was VERY enlightening and I would highly recommend this professional development investment to all designers who want to take their business to the next level. #designbizbllueprint
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Dorothy Draper
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"Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them." ~ Dorothy Draper
The original doyenne of decorating, Dorothy Draper (1889 – 1969) capitalized on her aristocratic breeding and good taste and blazed a trail for female designers. Completely self taught, she claimed that she had "no schooling to speak of, except that I was brought up where I had the privilege of being constantly in touch with surroundings of pleasant good taste". Draper ushered in a new style known as "Modern Baroque", adding a modern flare to classical style. She was the anti-minimalist --- she incorporated black and white tiles, rococo scrollwork, and Baroque plasterwork... http://www.dorothydraper.com/ |
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
b. Glasgow, Scotland 1868; d. London, England 1928
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868. His personality is one of those that characterize the age immediately preceding the Modern Movement. His name is mainly connected with the plan for the Glasgow School of Art.
Few designers can claim to have created a unique and individual style that is so instantly recognisable. Famous today as a designer of chairs, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was an architect who designed schools, offices, churches, tearooms and homes, an interior designer and decorator, an exhibition designer, a designer of furniture, metalwork, textiles and stained glass and, in his latter years, a watercolourist.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868. His personality is one of those that characterize the age immediately preceding the Modern Movement. His name is mainly connected with the plan for the Glasgow School of Art.
Few designers can claim to have created a unique and individual style that is so instantly recognisable. Famous today as a designer of chairs, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was an architect who designed schools, offices, churches, tearooms and homes, an interior designer and decorator, an exhibition designer, a designer of furniture, metalwork, textiles and stained glass and, in his latter years, a watercolourist.
Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer, 1902–81, American architect and furniture designer, b. Hungary.
Marcel Lajos Breuer was born in the provincial city of Pecs, Hungary. His early study and teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s introduced him to three older giants of the era that had a life-long influence upon his professional career – Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.
Breuer left the Bauhaus and moved to Berlin in 1928 and then moved to England in 1935 when the Nazis made it impossible for anyone who had been a part of the Bauhaus to practice architecture. In 1937, Breuer joined Walter Gropius in his architectural practice and also became a professor at Harvard. Breuer moved to New York in 1946 to found his own architectural firm, and like Le Corbusier, Breuer chose concrete as his medium of choice. He used concrete in his design of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City.
Marcel Breuer’s most recognized furniture design was the first bent tubular steel chair, known as the Wassily Chair. The Wassily Chair was designed in 1925 and inspired by the curved tubular steel handlebars on Breuer’s Adler bicycle. He designed his famousWassily chair for painter Wassily Kandinsky, Breuer’s colleague on the Bauhaus faculty.Kandinsky admired Breuer’s finished chair design so much that did Breuer made an additional copy for Kandinsky to use in his home. When the Italian manuafcturer re-released the chair in the 1960s, they designated the name “Wassily” after they had learned that Kandinsky had been the recipient of one of the earliest post-prototype units.
Marcel Lajos Breuer was born in the provincial city of Pecs, Hungary. His early study and teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s introduced him to three older giants of the era that had a life-long influence upon his professional career – Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.
Breuer left the Bauhaus and moved to Berlin in 1928 and then moved to England in 1935 when the Nazis made it impossible for anyone who had been a part of the Bauhaus to practice architecture. In 1937, Breuer joined Walter Gropius in his architectural practice and also became a professor at Harvard. Breuer moved to New York in 1946 to found his own architectural firm, and like Le Corbusier, Breuer chose concrete as his medium of choice. He used concrete in his design of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City.
Marcel Breuer’s most recognized furniture design was the first bent tubular steel chair, known as the Wassily Chair. The Wassily Chair was designed in 1925 and inspired by the curved tubular steel handlebars on Breuer’s Adler bicycle. He designed his famousWassily chair for painter Wassily Kandinsky, Breuer’s colleague on the Bauhaus faculty.Kandinsky admired Breuer’s finished chair design so much that did Breuer made an additional copy for Kandinsky to use in his home. When the Italian manuafcturer re-released the chair in the 1960s, they designated the name “Wassily” after they had learned that Kandinsky had been the recipient of one of the earliest post-prototype units.
"The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job." - Albert Hadley
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867–1959, American architect, b. Richland Center, Wis.
Wright is widely considered the greatest American architect. After studying civil engineering at the Univ. of Wisconsin, he worked for seven years in the office of Dankmar Adler and Louis H. Sullivan in Chicago.
From the beginning Wright practiced radical innovation both as to structure and aesthetics, and many of his methods have since become internationally current. At a time when poured reinforced concrete and steel cantilevers were generally confined to commercial structures, Wright did pioneer work in integrating machine methods and materials into a true architectural expression. He was the first architect in the United States to produce open planning in houses, in a break from the traditional closed volume, and to achieve a fluidity of interior space by his frequent elimination of confining walls between rooms. For the Millard house (1923) at Pasadena, Calif., he worked out a new method, known as textile-block slab construction, consisting of double walls of precast concrete blocks tied together with steel reinforcing rods set into both the vertical and the horizontal joints
Wright is widely considered the greatest American architect. After studying civil engineering at the Univ. of Wisconsin, he worked for seven years in the office of Dankmar Adler and Louis H. Sullivan in Chicago.
From the beginning Wright practiced radical innovation both as to structure and aesthetics, and many of his methods have since become internationally current. At a time when poured reinforced concrete and steel cantilevers were generally confined to commercial structures, Wright did pioneer work in integrating machine methods and materials into a true architectural expression. He was the first architect in the United States to produce open planning in houses, in a break from the traditional closed volume, and to achieve a fluidity of interior space by his frequent elimination of confining walls between rooms. For the Millard house (1923) at Pasadena, Calif., he worked out a new method, known as textile-block slab construction, consisting of double walls of precast concrete blocks tied together with steel reinforcing rods set into both the vertical and the horizontal joints