| Celerie Kemble’s childhood was in many ways a design tutorial spent in construction sites, antique stores, and in the unique houses designed by her mother, Mimi McMakin of Palm Beach’s Kemble Interiors. After graduating from Harvard, Celerie worked briefly in film production trying unsuccessfully to resist what she calls a compulsion for design and home improvement. As she puts it, “I dove in 1997 and haven’t come up for air yet.”
Since then, Celerie has been working primarily in Florida and New York helping her clients to, in the words of Michael Boodro of House Beautiful, “incorporate the serendipitous and the sentimental without losing clarity or strength.” Celerie finds much inspiration in the ever changing world of New York fashion by ultimately believing design is an expression of individuality, whim, and imagination — not a product of trends or rules. “My style is uniquely suited to each client and, due to the younger age of much of my clientele, that’s all over the map. I think what remains cohesive across our body of work is an infusion of colorful vitality and design irreverence. I enjoy a mix of vintage, traditional, and contemporary that’s unencumbered by a fixed formula. Whether I am designing a modern space or a more traditional one, there is always a focus on warmth so the place looks like home, a delightful, exciting place, but home nonetheless.” |
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Source : Kemble Interiors
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