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The Intersection of Culture and Interior Design: Creating Culturally-Inspired Spaces

Posted on August 6, 2025 (September 4, 2025) by mlaverdi

An interior design layout of a living room with a table, chest, pillows and fake plants.

Culture vividly shapes the environments we inhabit. Thus, interior design today has the potential to encompass more than just aesthetics. It can serve as a powerful means of storytelling, identity, and cultural expression — from the symbolic use of color and pattern to the thoughtful inclusion of heritage interior design materials and spatial traditions. Read […]

Interior Design alumna launches first book, “Design for Identity”

Posted on April 10, 2023 (February 24, 2025) by nmunson

This month, Marymount University Interior Design alumna Jessica Bantom launched her first book, ‘Design for Identity: How to Design Authentically for a Diverse World,’ with the aim of offering leaders a change management roadmap. “Design is expression, a service, an act of creativity,” Bantom argues. “But if designers design for everyone, how can there […]