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Sheila Bridges

Sheila Bridges (born 1963/1964[1]) is an American interior designer who founded her own firm, Sheila Bridges Design, Inc., in 1994.[2]

Early life and education

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Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Bridges moved to New York City in 1986. She holds degrees from Brown University and Parsons School of Design,[1][3][4] and studied decorative arts at Polimoda in Florence, Italy.[5]

Career

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Named "America's Best Interior Designer" by CNN and Time magazine,[6] Bridges has designed residences and offices for prominent entertainers, entrepreneurs, and business professionals,[2][6] including the Harlem offices for former President Bill Clinton and his staff,[6][7] and the official vice president's residence for Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff.[1][6][8] Her design firm has also completed projects for rooms at Columbia University and Princeton University.

Sheila Bridges Design, Inc has been included in Gotham and New York magazine's top interior designers lists and has been featured in House Beautiful magazine's listing of the Top 100 Interior Designers in the country since 1997.[citation needed]

Bridges is the author of Furnishing Forward: A Practical Guide to Furnishing for a Lifetime, released in 2002.[9][10] Her memoir, The Bald Mermaid, was published in 2013 and chronicles her childhood, professional life, and her diagnosis of alopecia.[3] In 2022, the book was optioned by Southern Fried Filmworks for adaptation into a series.[11]

Bridges hosted four seasons of Sheila Bridges: Designer Living, a weekly series for the Fine Living Network.[12][13] She has been a regular contributor on NBC's Today Show, has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show,[14] and has been profiled in numerous national and international publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, O, The Oprah Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Ebony, Country Living, Elle Décor, Interior Design, Vanity Fair, InStyle, Essence, House & Garden, Town & Country, Traditional Home and Black Enterprise.[citation needed]

In 2007, Bridges began designing furniture and home furnishings under the name Sheila Bridges Home, Inc.[10] Her home furnishing collections have been sold online, through catalogs and at national retailers Anthropologie and Bed, Bath & Beyond. Bridges' Harlem Toile De Jouy wallpaper[15] is currently available through design showrooms in The United States, Canada and Europe and is represented in the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's permanent wallpaper collection.[16]

Personal life

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Bridges has homes in Harlem and near Hudson, New York, and in Reykjavík, Iceland.[6][12][17]

Honors and recognition

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "50 over 50 2023: Lifestyle". Forbes. August 1, 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Philadelphia, Desa (October 16, 2000). "Sheila Bridges". Time. Archived from the original on November 22, 2010. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Green, Penelope (July 17, 2023). "Weeding Out the Riffraff". The New York Times. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  4. ^ Galts, Chad (November 14, 2007). "Designing Women". Brown Alumni Magazine. Brown University. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  5. ^ a b Herring, Sophia (November 29, 2022). "Sheila Bridges Design: Meet the AD100 2023". Architectural Digest. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d e Silva, Rachel (February 22, 2023). "Vice President Kamala Harris Had Sheila Bridges Design Her Official Residence". Elle Decor. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  7. ^ Seymour, Liz (November 9, 2006). "Designer Sheila Bridges, Changing The Face of Toile". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 25, 2012.
  8. ^ Koncius, Jura (February 22, 2023). "Designer Sheila Bridges decorates official vice president's residence". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  9. ^ Chambers, Veronica (August 4, 2020). "ED A-List Designer Sheila Bridges Creates a Light-Filled Sanctuary of Meaning and Memories". Elle Decor. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  10. ^ a b Deczynski, Rebecca (February 2, 2022). "Just 2 Percent of U.S. Interior Designers Are Black. How These 5 Women Entrepreneurs Broke Through". Inc. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  11. ^ Complex, Valerie (April 20, 2022). "Southern Fried Filmworks Options Interior Designer Sheila Bridges' Memoir, 'The Bald Mermaid'". Deadline. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  12. ^ a b Goodman, Wendy (October 9, 2020). "A Reykjavík Pied-à-Terre Inspired by the Natural Colors of Iceland". Curbed. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  13. ^ Robertson, Tatsha (June 29, 2003). "Sheila Bridges' approach to design is calm, collected". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on January 29, 2022. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  14. ^ "How Interior Designer Sheila Bridges Defines Beauty". OWN. November 17, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2023 – via YouTube.
  15. ^ Hosken, Olivia (March 3, 2022). "Wedgwood Releases Harlem Toile Collection with Sheila Bridges". Town & Country. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  16. ^ Herringshaw, Gregory (June 16, 2017). "Harlem Views". Cooper Hewitt. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
  17. ^ Lasky, Julie (August 7, 2023). "Hay House: How Designer Sheila Bridges Made Space for Herself". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
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