This episode of Doctoring Up Design is a real workgroup that gathered at the showroom to discuss issues that you will learn a bit more about in just a moment. First, Doctoring Up Design is the official podcast of Design Hardware and was created to provide you with real world solutions to your everyday pain points as it relates to the business of interiors design and architecture.

In May, 2023, a special gathering took place at the Design Hardware  showroom in Los Angeles. This gathering presented an opportunity to get some of LA’s most dynamic and creative designers together for a conversation about design beginning with an open forum about how the kitchen has changed in form and function since the pandemic began in 2020. This idea started as an exploratory look at what has changed, but developed into an overarching dialogue about what it means to be a designer today. Further, how the design community has learned to lean in on each other for support, direction, inspiration and in the case of showrooms like Design Hardware, how to provide creatives with opportunities to discover new product and specify with confidence that product will arrive on time, as intended to best serve the client.

You are about to listen in on a real workgroup discussing the issues designers, architects and builders face today. The following conversation is between 12 creatives and at times, it gets complicated, just like conversations in the real world. 

This conversation was not intended for you to blow through while multi-tasking. There is a great deal of material here and it is intended to be listened to over time and re-listened as well. It is worthy of saving and. added to your resource library. 

This is kicked off by Michele Solomons with Design Hardware asking about the experience designers have with their showroom partners. It’s an important question and one on just about every designers mind. From there, this chat takes on a life of its own and if you follow closely, there are nuggets of design business gold to be found.

Before we listen in, I thought you would like to meet the participants: 

Andres Gonzalez - Cali Renderings

Christine Jahan - Christine Jahan Designs

Crickett Kenser - Kitchen Places

Huma Sulaiman - Huma Sulaiman

James Hernandez - James Hernandez Interior Design

Joan Barton - Dirty Girl Construction

Kara Piepmeyer - Studio Kosma

Leslie Delli-Venneri - Aquabella

Marbe Briceno - Marbe Designs

Mark Hermogeno - Hermogeno Designs

Nicole Michael - Nicole Michael Designs

Rydhima Brar - R/Terior Studio

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