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Sister Parish
Sister Parish, born Dorothy May Kinnicutt, launched her interior design career in 1933 during the Great Depression, reportedly starting the business specifically because her family needed additional income, and she went on to help define the classic American "English country house" decorating style for wealthy East Coast clientele. She was selected by Jacqueline Kennedy to redecorate the White House family quarters in 1961, giving Parish's traditional, comfortably layered decorating aesthetic significant national visibility during the Kennedy administration's high-profile early-1960s public image. Parish later partnered with designer Albert Hadley to form Parish-Hadley Associates in 1962, a partnership that became one of the most influential American interior design firms of the 20th century, training numerous designers who went on to significant careers of their own. Sister Parish's combination of her selection to redecorate the Kennedy White House and her influential Parish-Hadley partnership has made her one of the most historically significant figures in 20th-century American interior design.
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Nate Berkus
Nate Berkus gained his initial mainstream visibility as a frequent design contributor on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" throughout the 2000s, a recurring television platform that introduced his approachable, accessible interior design philosophy to a massive daytime television audience well beyond his existing private design clientele. He later hosted his own syndicated daytime program, "The Nate Berkus Show," and launched home decor product lines sold through major retailers including Target, reflecting a broader strategy of extending his design brand into affordable, mass-market home goods rather than remaining purely a high-end residential designer. Berkus survived the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami while vacationing in Sri Lanka, an experience during which his partner at the time, Fernando Bengoechea, died, and Berkus has spoken publicly about how the experience affected his subsequent design philosophy's emphasis on surrounding oneself with meaningful, personally significant objects. Nate Berkus's combination of his extensive television design platform and his accessible mass-market retail product lines has made him one of the most publicly visible interior designers in modern American media.
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