Shopping with clients is always fraught. Can you take clients to showrooms and dealers without them beginning to view you as their personal shoppers? How do you make them see that the process is about creativity, not access, and that your job is not just to source furnishings and objects? And how has the interaction changed in the internet era? Three designers from across the country—Martha Mulholland, Kesha Franklin, and Katie Davis— weigh in on when and why they take their clients into the design marketplace. and the price you may have to pay if you decide not to.

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