Robin Allen

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About Robin Allen

Interior Designer: Twenty-five years interior & architectural design experience in New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Specialize in high-end, luxury residential design; focus on unique, timeless and practical designs for real-life not just photo-shoots. Aesthetic trends towards subtlety in furniture and fabrics, serving as discreet backdrop for art, rugs, lighting,"the interchangeable jewelry" of a space. Both functionality and aesthetics should be seamless criteria for each unique project. Working with clients, interpret projects’ functional requirements, must-haves and dream ideas. As collaborative team we establish and implement concepts from first meeting to installation. Home Staging: I have garnered significant financial gains for clients working as their private stager editing their dwellings so potential buyers can visualize them as their own. The key is to create an illusion of perfection which a buyer feels they can’t live without. Styling / Merchandising / Retail Buyer: Co-owned design related retail store in downtown Manhattan,"Olio". Merchandising, creating vignettes and store layout were a big part of maintaining visual interest and circulation of layout, as well as resourcing unique merchandise from around the world. Personally: My loves are photography, art, gardening the music world, indie films and travelling off the grid. Last but never least, my two almost-grown children and my pair of perfectly-mannered terriers;)