Profile: Sheila Bridges – Interior Designer and founder of Sheila Bridges Design Inc.

Sheila Bridges. PHOTO/BlackAmericans.com

Sheila Bridges is the founder and CEO of one of the most prominent interior design firms in the United States – Sheila Bridges Design Inc. Named “America’s Best Interior Designer” by both Time magazine and CNN, she is perhaps best known for having designed the Harlem offices of former President Bill Clinton and his staff.

Bridges who founded her firm in 1993, was born and raised in Philadelphia. She graduated from Brown University before completing a postgraduate degree in interior design at Parsons School of Design. She also studied decorative arts in Florence, Italy, and to this day cites overseas travel as one of the biggest influences on her work.

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