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15 Most Famous Interior Designers Around The World

There are many interior designers around the world. They spend their time making indoor spaces functional, beautiful, and safe. They beautify the interior space by using decorative items which fit the space perfectly.

They are always trained to understand the needs of the clients and to create spaces that reflect their unique styles. While developing a design they work with clients to ensure that clients get what they desired.

Interior designers collaborate with architects, engineers, and other professionals to ensure the space is beautiful and functional. In this article, we have looked at the 15 most famous interior architects. They include the following:

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1. Philippe Starck

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Philippe Starck was born on January 18, 1949, in Â鶹APP, France. He is a French industrial architect and designer. He is famously known for his wide range of designs such as furniture, household objects, interior design, vehicles, and architecture.

Starck says he was inspired by his father, André Starck, an aeronautics engineer. He set up his first industrial design company while working for Adidas known as Starck Product. He later changed the name of his company and named it Ubik after Philip K. Dick’s novel.

He has designed several hotels in different countries such as Royalton Hotel (1988) in New York City, the Delano in Miami, the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood, and the Sanderson hotel in London among others.

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2. David Hicks

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Davis Hicks was born on March 25, 1929, in Coggeshall, Essex, England, and died on March 29, 1998, in Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, England. He was married to Lady Pamela Mountbatten, the couple was blessed with three children namely Edwina Victoria Louise Hicks, Ashley Louis David Hicks, and India Amanda Caroline Hicks.

He was an English interior decorator and designer. It is interesting to know that his children followed in his footsteps. Ashley Hicks is an architect and designer and he completed David Hicks Designer a celebration of his father’s work in 2006. India has written two books about design known as Island Life and Island Beauty.

3. Elsie de Wolfe

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Elsie de Wolfe initially was an American actress and later became a very prominent interior designer. She was born in Ella Anderson de Wolfe in New York City, U.S. According to The New Yorker, an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, poetry, cartoons, etc, interior design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe.

Wolfe worked for several people throughout her career. Some of her loyal clients were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Henry Clay, and Adelaide Frick, Anne Harriman Vanderbilt, and Anne Morgan among others.

4. Jonathan Adler

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Jonathan Adler is a well-known interior designer. He is famously known for his strong colours and unique decorative complements which are his signature and support his motto.

Even though he is a well-known designer and does creative work, Jonathan did not complete his interior design certification. His trademark approach and flair for combining colors and patterns enabled him to have a successful interior design firm.

5. Nate Berkus

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Nate Berkus was born on September 17, 1971, in Orange Country, California. He is an American interior designer, television personality, and author. He operates the Chicago interior design firm known as Nate Berkus Associates.

 He was a regularly featured guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, an American daytime syndicated talk show that aired nationally for 25 seasons from 1986 to 2011, and he offered design advice to viewers and coordinated surprise make-overs for people’s homes.

6. Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler is an American designer born on November 21, 1967, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In the mid-1990s, she founded her own design firm known as Kelly Wearstler Interior Design, which served mainly the hotel industry. However, it now designs across high-end residential, retail, commercial, and hospitality spaces.

Throughout his career, Kelly has been awarded several awards such as the Vogue Top 10 Best Dressed, TIME Style & Design 100, Elle Decor A-List Designers, Time Magazine the Design 100, and AD 100 Hall of Fame among others.

7. Thom Filicia

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Thom Filicia is an American interior designer famously known for his role as an interior design expert on the American television program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

He attended a design school, Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior design. He is the founder of Thom Filicia, Inc firm located in New York City, founded in 1998.

He was lucky to win several awards such as an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Program in 2004, in 2011, he was named one of Elle Décor’s top 25 A-List Designers and he was chosen as one of House Beautiful’s Top 100 American Designers and House & Garden’s Top 50 ‘Tastemakers’ in 2006.

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8. Jacques Grange

Jacques Grange is a French interior designer. He went for training at the École Camondo, a private school of product design and interior architecture located in Â鶹APP, and École Boulle, a college of fine arts and crafts and applied in Â鶹APP.

Since the 1970s, after Grange completed his training, he made a career as a decorator in France and abroad. He has his usual customers such as François Pinault, Robert Agostinelli, Valentino, Isabelle Adjani, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Alain Ducasse, and Karl Lagerfeld among others.

9. Alberto Pinto

He was an interior designer and photographer born in 1945, in Casablanca, Morocco, and died in 2012 in France. He mostly focused on designing the interiors of corporations, hotels, yachts, jets, and apartments.

Despite being an interior designer, Pinto had his own home collection which was complete with tableware, furniture, home accessories, and table linen.

10. Nicky Haslam

Nicky Haslam is also known as Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam. He is an English interior designer and socialite. Haslam founded the interior design firm known as NH Studio Ltd based in London.

Haslam designed a set for the play known as ‘As I Like It’ by Amanda Eliasch in 2011 and worked on Amanda’s house in Cheyne Walk as well.

Nicky as well published several books such as Nicky Haslam’s Folly de Grandeur which reveals the history and design behind his own home in 2013, and in 2002 he published the book known as Sheer Opulence which talked about his affairs with numerous individuals.

11. Kerry Joyce

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He is an American interior designer, product designer, and designer of houses. He has a firm known as Kerry Joyce Associates located in Los Angeles California and he directs it. His firm has worked on many residential interior design projects.

He has received several awards such as the Emmy Awards, 1^stDib 50 Award, Elle Décor’s A-List, CA Home & Design-Design Master, Elle Decor’s American Design Award for Textiles, and Hollywood Reporter’s Design Hall of Fame among others.

12. Syrie Maugham

Syrie Maugham was born on July 10, 1879, in England and died on July 25, 1955. She began her interior design career as an apprentice under Ernest Thornton-Smith in the 1910s.

In 1922, Maugham opened her own interior decorating business at 85 Baker Street, London after borrowing some money. After the shop continued to grow, she opened other shops in a different locations, and by 1930, she has several interior shops in London, New York, and Chicago.

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13. Rose Tarlow

Rose Tarlow is an interior designer, textile designer as well as a furniture designer. She went to Emerson College and in 1960, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Theater Arts. Later, Rose joined the New York School of Interior Design and the Parsons School of Design.

Some of Rose’s successful projects include Rose Tarlow Apartment, Belgrave Square, London, Sunshine Ranch, Aspen, Colorado, Rose Tarlow Residence, Bel Air, California, Eddie Lampert Residence, Greenwich, Connecticut, Barbara Walters Residence, Bel Air, California and David Geffen Residence, Beverly Hills, California among others.

14. Richard Mishaan

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Richard Mishaan is an interior designer based in New York City.  He was married to Marcia Mishaan and they were blessed with two kids. He studied at New York University, Columbia University, and Harvard University for his interior design and interior architect.

Some of his notable work include he designed Sony Corporation of America, the hotel Tcherassi in Cartagena, Colombia, the Shelborne Hotel in South Beach, one in Miami and Florida as well and lastly, he worked on the design of the presidential suite for the St. Regis Hotel in New York City.

15. Amy Lau

Amy Lau is one of the most famous interior designers in the world. She is a co-founder of Design Miami, an American design company that holds two annual flagship collectible design fairs, in 2005. She has established her interior design firm in the West Chelsea arts district, New York City known as Amy Lau Design.

She has been featured in designing New York Spaces, Luxe Magazine, Open House, and HGTV among others.

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