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Interior Design
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Luxurious, contemporary interior design
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FR Review:
Sheila Bridges creates strong, compelling design moments with warmth and refinement. A veteran with the most high-profile of high-profile clients (Bill Clinton and Princeton University among them), she has achieved the balanced confidence of a master. Formerly more on the minimal end of the spectrum, recent projects are testaments to Bridges’ layering acumen–damasks, ikats and herringbone patterns play off each other in the background, while luxurious fabrics and smart, modern pieces fill the foreground. Her palette shows a fondness for regal blues, dreamy lavenders and inviting neutrals, but all is customized to the client–no two Bridges projects are alike, except in comfort. She creates “low-maintenance interiors for busy professionals.”
Educated at Brown and the Parsons School of Design, Bridges worked with Shelton Mindel and then with Renny Saltzman before forming her own firm in 1994. Currently she works with one assistant, taking on a small number of large jobs at a time. While most of her work is in New York, projects have taken her to Martha’s Vineyard, Santa Barbara, DC and Colorado. Bridges’ first book, Furnishing Forward, was published in 2002. Her most recent, The Bald Mermaid, a memoir, was published in 2013. In addition, she has a fabric and wallpaper line, Harlem Toile de Jouy, which is featured in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent collection.
The firm charges a standard design fee, a standard percentage on top of net for product, and a construction oversight fee, though Bridges can do smaller work on a consultancy basis. Clients cite her “hands on,” “very efficient” approach and the fresh ideas she brings to the table. A wide variety of sources are cultivated from the Upper East Side to uptown to Upstate New York to Paris. Roundly praised by the press, she was hailed by Time and CNN as “America’s Best Interior Designer” in 2001. HB Top Designers. Elle Decor A-List.
Representative Client Comments:
“Your learn so much from Sheila. She always has a new thought and a new historical reference.” “Design is not a mystery with Sheila, but an evolving practical process.” “She offers comfortable, livable spaces that are lovely but not pretentious.” “Talented and sharp, with a strong point of view because she knows what works.” “While at first I thought the budget was outrageous, I now think every penny was worth it. I would have made costly mistakes and she did it just right.” “I am always able to reach her and the two projects came in right on budget.” “Sheila took us from a college-black-leather-sofa look to an eclectic, sophisticated style that looks better every year.”
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