The Chairish Podcast

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Now that working from home has become the new normal and home schooling has become mandatory, the home office is more central to domestic happiness than ever before. And with the appeal of working remotely likely to continue long after the pandemic has retreated, the demand for chic and functional home offices is likely only to increase. In this episode, two top designers skilled at meeting the needs of modern families with great style, Chloe Warner and Mikel Welch, weigh in on what’s next and reveal how they are solving their clients’ evolving needs, why we are likely to see a resurgence in walls and doors, the difficulty in finding the perfect desk chair, and why the home office is likely to evolve into the home lobby.

In this episode, our guests tackle:

• Solving for problems of a regular office space including storage, charging stations, and organization
• Is there a comfortable desk chair that is chic enough to work in a home setting?
• Innovative requests from clients including “work pods” in addition to traditional home offices
• How can families live and work together now that they’re in the same space 24/7?
• The reality of “Zoom background envy” and growing interest in well-designed backgrounds

Additional resources:

• The Work From Home Edit via Chairish
• 35 Eclectic Home Offices via Chairish
• Developing Trend: New Homes Will Include Personalized Home Offices on Forbes
• That ‘Home Office’ of Yours? It Needs an Upgrade on The New York Times

Connect with Chairish and our guests on Instagram:

• Chairish: @chairishco
• Michael Boodro: @michaelboodro
• Chloe Warner: @redmondaldrichdesign
• Mikel Welch: @mikelwelch

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Is attending design school still worth the time, effort, and money it takes? And are the schools teaching the right things? Should the focus be on principles or practicalities? In this episode, the president of the New York School of Interior Design, David Sprouls, is joined by two of the school’s distinguished alumni, Penny Drue Baird and Drew McGukin, to talk about whether techniques or technology should prevail, why they only hire design school graduates, how schools can help diversify and expand the student body, and why nobody seems to know design history these days.

In this episode, our guests discuss:

• Why design schools are worth the time and money
• Are students actually learning what they need to know for the real world?
• How the curricula at NYSID has kept up with changing lifestyles and the increasing use of technology
• How to keep up with new technology while balancing traditional design tactics like sketching and hand drawing
• The most important skills Penny and Drew learned while at design school
• Why firms prefer hiring people who went to design school
• How the NYSID decides its curriculum and coursework

Additional resources:

• 10 Things You Should Know About Becoming an Interior Designer on MyMove
• 15 Interior Design Schools Worth Applying to on Architectural Digest
• Become An Interior Designer on ASID
• Meet Our New Scholarship Winner on Chairish
• New York School of Interior Design
• Dessins LLC.
• Drew McGukin Interiors

Connect with Chairish and our guests on Instagram:

• Chairish: @chairishco
• Michael Boodro: @michaelboodro
• NYSID: @nysid
• Penny Drue Baird: @pennydessins
• Drew McGukin: @drewmcgukin
• David Sprouls: @david.sprouls

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