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About the DLN
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The Design Leadership Network is a membership community of interior designers, architects, landscape specialists, and affiliated professionals champi oning best practices and growth in the design industry through education, inspiration, community, and collaboration.
A modern country estate dictated by strict zoning Page 24 Designers name their dream clients Page 8 Where design CEOs see tech moving the industry Page 16
Leadership isn’t about being in charge. It’s about helping those around you rise. If you’re a DLN Member or Partner, you face this leadership challenge in your business every day, guiding your team to greatness amid some of the most challenging market conditions any of us have ever faced. You also embrace leadership within the DLN community, whether you’re sharing insights and resources with your peers, collaborating, or just commis erating over cocktails. Every time you engage in mutual support with your fellow Members, you are helping them rise. In the same stroke, you are also defining yourself as a leader. At the DLN, our goal is to help you rise, and to elevate the design industry at large, so with every decision we make, we challenge ourselves: How does this action serve our community and the broader design industry? How can we go further in helping them—you—to rise? A couple of new initiatives passed this leadership test with flying colors, and I am excited to share them with you:
The kitchen in a San Francisco project by DLN Member Jeffry Weisman.
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Meet the DLN Team
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The DLN Associates and Fellows Program
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DLF Spotlight
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Artful Watercolor Renderings
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What Members Love Now
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A Multimedia Partner Collaboration
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A City Room Gets a Second Life
10 A Designer’s Pro Bono Initiative 11 A Clear Fireplace Saves a Cherished View 12 How Sound and Scent Won a Cover Project 14 The Truth About Virtual Showhouses
A New Line of Sustainable Decor
15 Trend Alert: Brackets & Plinths
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A Ceramic Line Decades in the Making
16 New Partners
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Hospitality Spotlight
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Designers’ Dream Clients
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New Reads to Add to Your Shelf
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16 New Members
24 A Modern Estate Where Land and Architecture Are Intertwined 26 A Pool Paradise Carved Into a Riverbank 27 Can Creative Talent Be Inherited? 28 Meet the Mexico City Summit Speakers 30 A Member’s Amsterdam Itinerary 31 The Hamptons for Design Lovers
Over the past year, we worked with our Leadership Board to define a new Associate member status for design principals under 40. DLN Associates are experienced, hold positions of responsibility, and meet strict criteria for admission to the DLN, but they also bring fresh energy and new ideas to our community. At the same time, we’ve renamed the most senior principals in our com munity, formerly the Design Masters, rechristening them as DLN Fellows and focusing their engagement on mentorship activities with the Associates and the Design Leadership Foundation. In both cases, it’s all about lifting up the next generation of design leaders. To learn more about the DLN Associates and Fellows and read about the DLF’s latest program, flip to page 3. In the editorial realm, the outcome of our deliberation on these questions is the publication you now hold in your hands. As our brilliant Director of Editorial & Community Engagement, Hadley Keller, explains on the next page, The Quarterly is intended to stoke, support, and celebrate your leadership—in your firm, within the DLN, in the design industry, and out in the great wide world. We hope you love it, and even more importantly, we hope it helps you rise.
18 A Mold Problem Results in a Masterful Reno 22 How Light Transforms This Modern Apartment
Michael Diaz-Griffith Executive Director & COO @D ES IG N LEA D ERS H IPN ETWO RK