From the time I could use a pencil, I was drawing at the kitchen table—my family’s or that of any relative we might be visiting—instead of playing outdoors. We were not well off when I was young and my paper was often brown paper bags from the grocery store or off cuts of paper rolls from the factory where my dad worked. The drive to create has remained with me. I sensed it in my very brief formal training in high school and college. I followed its call to learn about interior design the only way I could as a kid, from the library. I saw...more
