Clements Design: Great Minds Think Alike

Clements Design is a team of interior designers and one of the most renowned in Los Angeles. Kathleen Clements – the mother – and Tommy Clements – the son – have built their powerhouse interior design firm by designing multi-layered, finely curated, and eminently livable homes for a star-studded customer list, where you can find names like Jennifer Aniston, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Bruno Mars, and many others.

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Clients say the dynamic is the best of both generations. Kathleen‘s practices are old-school as well as Tommy‘s taste – yet he offers a fresher, youthful perspective that Kathleen‘s stylistic expertise can deliver. And as close as mother and son are, Tommy says they have very different approaches to design.

Clements Design stunned with projects as diverse as a mid-century modern design or a renovation of a 1930s Georgian house. Tommy admits that he can really get obsessed with the little things and all the little design details, while his mother has a much more macro perspective, she always considers the big picture and believes there still has to be something unexplainable, even magical, to give a home its character and soul. A mother-and-son duo that does not always think alike, however, their minds truly combine!

“From the moment Tommy and I began working together, we have always collaborated. We have a very similar sense of style, but each of us expresses our style in a unique way (…). That’s not to say we don’t disagree, but generally, the disagreements ramp up the creativity.”
_{Kathleen Clements at 1stDibs}

Tommy Clements recalls how, as a child, his mother was always renovating or furnishing new houses for the family as they moved every few years. He also remembers being very aware that each house had a very unique feel when it was done and he always tried to understand why.

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“I think that’s when I started to understand the importance of scale, layout and color palette, and to appreciate how the architecture of a house affects the composition of its spaces.”
_{Tommy Clements at 1stDibs}

Clements Design studies the client’s personal narrative, fits it into the architectural context, and brings the story to life with understated elegance. As Kathleen, the differences between mother and son are not the central point here. Despite everything, they think together and thus bond. What about the results? Their work together speaks for itself.