About

Principal designer Claire Smith has been creating interiors, furniture and objects for twenty years. She rendered creative and technical services to architects and interior designers while accomplishing her B.A., Magna Cum Laude in Interior Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York under a full scholarship from the NY Design Center. She is NCIDQ certified and licensed in Connecticut serving clients in New York, New Jersey, Florida- wherever clients require. She takes great care to be resourceful, providing excellent conceptual and planning skills with a discerning aesthetic sense and drive to see her clients' expectations fulfilled.

Project Experience

It is always a privilege to work with other professionals . Some of those collaborations engaged my skills to produce details and construction drawings, others involved finding solutions to spatial organization, or the design and specifications for custom furniture and surfacing. A number of those projects were award winning and published projects, while some required anonymity for celebrity privacy. Residences, retail, corporate and even medical facilities are in the mix. Whether the Belgian Consulate office, Goldman Sachs partner offices or stores on Madison Ave. each project was memorable for the integrated teamwork and everything learned through the process.

Publications

House Beautiful Kitchens/Baths, Fall 1996, page 78 Assisting Joan Halperin (bathroom with scroll frieze)
Architecture, May 1995, page 120 AIA Honor Awards, custom furniture technicals for Maurice Irving
At Home with Chris Madden, Women's Day vol. XV , No. 1, 2005, page 82, architectural drawings under Gabriel Sedlis for Jed Johnson
Qualified Remodeler, 1988, Vol. 14, No. 8 pages 33-38