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Arts & Entertainment
Sheila Bridges:
Interior designer
Sheila Bridges has steadily moved up in the world of interior design since capturing the high-profile job of decorating former President Bill Clinton's office in Harlem. But Clinton isn't the first big-name client for Bridges, who has done work for the novelist Tom Clancy, rapper P. Diddy, former Motown Records President Andre Harrell and software executive Peter Norton. Her apartment in Harlem is constantly in demand for use in photo shoots and movies.
FULL NAME
Sheila Bridges
BORN
July 7, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EDUCATION
She received a sociology degree in 1986 from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, before moving to Manhattan, where she finished a graduate program at the Parsons School of Design. She has studied Decorative Arts at Polimoda in Florence, Italy.
CAREER
Bridges worked for a Manhattan architecture firm and for interior designer Renny Saltzman, before she launched Sheila Bridges Design from her Harlem apartment in 1994. According to her Web site, one of her primary motivations in opening her own firm was to provide access to many of the same resources and design services to African-Americans. In 1999, she opened a retail shop in Hudson, New York, called Sheila Bridges Home. Bridges' first book, "Furnishing Forward: A Practical Guide to Furnishing for a Lifetime," is set for publication in spring 2002.
PERSONAL
Bridges is single.
WEBSITE
http://www.sheilabridges.com/
