{"id":72920,"date":"2022-06-16T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocadolobo.com\/blog\/?p=72920"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T09:45:44","slug":"boca-do-lobo-master-interviews-meet-the-interior-designer-betty-wasserman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocadolobo.com\/blog\/exclusive\/boca-do-lobo-master-interviews-meet-the-interior-designer-betty-wasserman\/","title":{"rendered":"Boca do Lobo Master Interviews: Meet The Interior Designer Betty Wasserman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Boca do Lobo<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, in partnership with\u00a0Coveted Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, presents you with a selection of 7\u00a0Interior Designers\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0interviews. Today, we\u2019ll show you an interview with\u00a0Betty Wasserman<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, one of the best New York<\/em> interior designers<\/em><\/strong>. Keep reading this article, to learn more about this\u00a0iconic\u00a0interior designer<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you talk about interior design<\/strong> in New York<\/em><\/strong>, Betty Wasserman\u2019s<\/a><\/em><\/strong> name always comes along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1996<\/em><\/strong>, when she launched her design business<\/strong>, she has become recognized as one of the best New York interior designers<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BETTY WASSERMAN<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The interior designer<\/strong> united her knowledge of 10 years working as a private art dealer<\/strong> with her passion for design<\/strong> and architecture<\/strong>: and the mix was very successful<\/strong>, known for a warm and minimalist approach.<\/strong> Her beginning in interior design <\/strong>was accidental. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After 10 years working as an art dealer<\/strong>, Betty <\/em><\/strong>was inside the New York scene on the field<\/strong>: and one of her clients just wouldn\u2019t accept no for an answer. He bought a new apartment and asked her to help him and his wife design it after firing a couple of people before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cI said \u2018I don\u2019t do that, and he said: \u2018Yes, you do\u2019. I was like, \u2018What do you mean? Yes, I do\u2019\u2026and it was just one of those people that you that doesn\u2019t take no for an answer<\/em>.\u201d<\/em> Betty then put a team together and took down all the tacky mirrors that were all over the place, the tacky chandelier and ripped up the wall-to-wall carpeting. After sourcing for everything they needed, they sorted it all out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSomehow it came together, then, of course, we did an art collection and that was my first project. Once I realized that I was pretty good at it and I really liked it, then I decided to go back and take classes and learn how to properly do a floor plan and reflected ceiling plan and all of that.<\/em>\u201d, she completes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the first client, the creation of her own business was almost natural. The interior designer<\/em><\/strong> already had an art business, already had an assistant, so the mindset and circumstances were right. It was a very easy transition and the two businesses support each other beautifully. Design and art are very connected after all. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, Wasserman\u2019s exclusive New York City design studio<\/strong> is tucked away in Manhattan\u2019s Chelsea <\/em><\/strong>neighbourhood. From this unassuming studio, the interior designer<\/em><\/strong> designs for the most fashionable<\/strong> and exclusive addresses<\/strong> in the city. She also has a personal residence<\/strong> and satellite studio <\/strong>in The Hamptons <\/strong>where she designs many luxury homes<\/strong> that have been featured in top design publications<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Designing in New York might have some specificities. \u201cYou have to be very smart about space\u201d<\/em>, she affirms. Between the most expensive square foot in the world, any space in the city has to be very well thought out: you can\u2019t waste luxurious space when you do Manhattan apartments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Times have changed and, if in the past people wanted closed kitchens, now it\u2019s the opposite: an open kitchen fits the current lifestyle, in which you have to use the space well and you want to interact with people while they\u2019re cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe spaces have to function. They have to work well and they have to be beautiful, and they have to be bulletproof.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of all the projects, the interior designer<\/em> has a favourite<\/strong>: her own loft in<\/strong> Southampton<\/em><\/strong>. \u201cIt\u2019s not that it\u2019s the biggest project I\u2019ve ever had, not that it had the biggest budget by far (laughs) but because it was done for me and my family and it was so personal and I love working with my builder. I enjoyed the process so much that I was sad when it was over\u201d<\/em>, she confesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After looking for houses for more than a year, she decided to go another way: to build her own<\/strong>. The interior designer<\/em><\/strong> hired an architect and started to make real all the lines,<\/strong> shapes <\/strong>and high ceilings <\/strong>she had in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI always try to have a say and try to be involved in the architectural part of the process because as you probably know, architects like to design from the outside in, and designers design from the inside out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After more than 20 years of working with that, the interior designer<\/em><\/strong> doesn\u2019t ever plan to retire. The intention is to slow down a bit, to choose two big projects instead of three, for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I just can\u2019t imagine not doing it because I really love it, it doesn\u2019t feel like work at all. I feel very lucky and I always tell my daughter: whatever you choose to do for a career, you have to love it. I don\u2019t care if it makes a little bit of money or a lot of money, you have to love it because otherwise, you know, do you want to wake up at 50 and say \u201cOh my God, what I did for all those years?<\/em><\/p>\nBetty Wasserman<\/strong><\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Stay with us to discover more\u00a0Interior Designers<\/em>!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
See also: Boca do Lobo Master Interviews- Meet The Designer H\u00e9ctor Esrawe<\/a>\n<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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