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    Design for Everyone

    May 21, 2022 4 minutes
    Interview by HEIDI MITCHELL
    Photograph by CLARISSA BONET

    Q: As CEO of the International Interior Design Association, a Chicago-based global consortium of top practitioners, you’ve spoken a lot about underrepresentation of certain people in the field. Is there a root cause?

    Interior design has always been a very white space. For people of color, for immigrants, for families sending their first member off to college, career viability is important. Interior design has often been perceived as a hobby—something that happened on the North Shore or on the Gold Coast. It hasn’t been recognized as something one does to earn money. I have seen that substantially shift in the

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