Born and raised in Chicago IL, Kara Mann was steeped in an environment of creativity, elegance, and resourcefulness. An entrepreneur at heart, Kara would sell CDs to fund projects and lie about her age to work restaurant shifts. Now she runs her own studio and has racked up clients like Virgil Abloh, Goop and several luxury hotels. She’s just launched a collection with CB2 and a line of home essentials called Kept. The wall street journal aptly calls her a “spark plug in the world of design.”Images, links and more from Kara Mann!Many thanks to this episode’s sponsors:LutronLutron is reinventing the way you experience light with Ketra. With Lutron’s advanced lighting Ketra, you can bring the outdoors in, with light that shifts throughout the day like the sun and re-creates the warmth of incandescent lighting. View Ketra in action and get a virtual “Magic of Light” demo, live from their NYC Experience Center, plus explore projects, installations and more at podcast.ketra.com.Please say Hi on social! Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - @CleverPodcast, @amydevers, @designmilkIf you enjoy Clever we could use your support! Please consider leaving a review, making a donation, becoming a sponsor, or introducing us to your friends! We love and appreciate you!Clever is hosted by Amy Devers and produced by 2VDE Media, with editing by Rich Stroffolino, and music from El Ten Eleven.Clever is proudly distributed by Design Milk. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/clever.
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