A home for the interior design community at large.
We gather working designers to discuss the truth about our industry, our businesses, and how we navigate toward our goals. Each month we bring real knowledge to the topics that actually matter, through honest, transparent conversation. Come for one, stay for the community we're building on purpose.
A stronger design community produces stronger work and better profits. We're building those bonds on purpose, one gathering at a time.
The Salon is that room. Historically, salons were where people came together to talk, argue, eat, and most importantly, sharpen ideas. The Salon is the umbrella over everything we do to build those bonds: honest conversation, real mentorship, and very good company. Atlanta-rooted, and going where designers are.
One community. Many rooms.
Each room is a different way in, and the whole thing grows as we do.
Kelly + Michel. Two points of view, one belief: design is for everyone, and the business of it shouldn't be a secret.
Kelly Finley makes rooms that are layered, lived-in, and a little daring, with a backbone of systems most designers skip. Fifteen years in, she runs Joy Street Design and points a growing share of her work at Joy Street Initiative, her nonprofit that renovates spaces for the people who need them most. She built her name on candor: the real numbers, the markups, the things the industry would rather keep quiet. Ask her the budget question. She'll give you the real answer.
Michel Smith Boyd makes rooms that read cultivated, soulful, and a little bold, which is more or less how he runs a conversation. He's the first two-time champion of HGTV's Rock the Block (Seasons 4 and 6), and through Michel Smith Boyd Interiors his work runs from residential and commercial design to bespoke rugs, case goods, art, and home fragrance. Veranda named him a “Next Legend,” Atlanta put him on its 50 Most Powerful, and his rooms have shown up in the Wall Street Journal, Elle Décor, and Vogue. You've caught him on HGTV's Luxe for Less, and this fall he goes a shade darker as resident judge on A Very Haunted Renovation.
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The easiest way in is the next Open House. Come for one, stay for what we're building.