Greetings friends!
I'd like to share a few exciting tidbits:
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Rebecca Malik
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Be inspired by some of our favorite interior designers at The View from 17th and Riggs: 
I’m super excited about this week’s interior designer interview. To me, she is the ultimate combination of entrepreneur and humanitarian. Florencia Turco DeRoussel is a wildly successful interior designer who also is super passionate about helping others. She is one of those rare people that just bubbles with excitement about the world around her. Its a beautiful thing and you can see it resonate in her work.
The talented Florencia graciously agreed to answer a few questions for us. She shared some great design tips and incredibly important advice about passion and helping others that we can all follow! Enjoy!
Q: You describe your firm as “full service” offering “interior architecture, space planning, marketing and graphics all joined by one common core, in-ergy”. Can you tell us what this means as a business philosophy and how it affects how you work?
Florencia: Great question! This is a little play on words… mainly because our tag line is “Get Involved, Get Inspired, Go-Within!” When we first were developing the Within name and brand I did a lot of research on IN words.. Insight, Involved, Inspired, Innovation, Interactive, integrity …. and being that I typically tend to have a lot of “energy” it worked… we have IN-ergy! This is how we attack every project..with In-ergy… that is involved, and inspired, and inviting… and interactive… our IN-words come out! It is our company’s integrity! It’s what we believe “in”. We believe that every project no matter how big or small deserves great design and to have Fun doing it!
Q: What impact do you think interior design and the current state of our interior surroundings has on us mentally and emotionally?
F: Interior Design plays a HUGE role on our surroundings. Believe it or not, we play with your mind! We make you feel good or terrified! We help you lose track of time and we help you relax in a spa….
Think about a casino..interesting how you can never find a clock or a window to see what time it is or what time of day it is… and that they are designed in such a way that you can get lost and perhaps…Play more machines and use more money! It’s Brilliant.
Think of Ikea, an amazingly well designed store. You get inspired the minute you walk in… you then take a break and have some lunch..then continue your shopping adventure.. when you get to the end you can see all the SALES..you feel so great and it’s such a bargain you buy them all and THEN just when you think you can escape, you see the Swedish meatballs that you had for lunch and are reminded about how good they were..so you buy a bag or 12. Genius!
Read the full interview with Florencia and see images of her work here.
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