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Damon Liss is an American interior designer and the founder of Damon Liss Design, a multidisciplinary studio based in Tribeca, New York. Since its founding in 2003, the practice has become known for creating refined and timeless interiors that balance warmth, restraint, and architectural sensitivity.

Working across both interior design and interior architecture, Liss approaches each project through a collaborative process that brings together architecture, materiality, craftsmanship, and collectible vintage pieces. His work is characterized by layered yet harmonious spaces that combine contemporary living with carefully curated historical references and artisanal details.

Together with his team, Liss collaborates closely with skilled craftsmen and long-standing creative partners to develop homes that feel thoughtful, enduring, and deeply personal. The studio’s work has been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Interior Design, and The Wall Street Journal.

Bobby Berk is an Emmy-winning design expert, TV host, author, and founder of his eponymous interior design practice. He gained international recognition through Netflix’s Queer Eye, where his thoughtful and transformative approach to interiors helped establish him as one of the most recognizable voices in contemporary design. In 2020, Architectural Digest named him one of the “most famous interior designers working today.”

Originally from Missouri, Berk began his career in retail and visual merchandising before launching his own company and showroom in New York in 2006. He later founded his full-service design studio, which works across residential, commercial, and hospitality projects with a style defined by approachable luxury, functionality, and emotional connection to space.

Alongside his design practice, Berk leads the lifestyle platform BobbyBerk.com and is the author of Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good For The Mind, a book exploring the relationship between interior design, wellbeing, and everyday life.

Amanda Holliday, founder and principal of Amanda Brooke Interiors, is an American designer based in Houston, Texas. From an early age, Amanda was drawn to aesthetics and the creative, first pursuing a degree in the fashion industry and then returning to study interior design. After working for many years in commercial and residential design, she opened her firm in 2019. 

With a keen eye for quality and style, and an incessant exploration of material, form, color, and space, Amanda’s design approach is an intuitive balance of both contemporary and vintage, architectural and organic; creating a unique sensory experience tailored to each client and their journey. She is an expert in experiential storytelling through your space.

Nina Freudenberger is an interior designer and architect based in Los Angeles and the founder of Haus Interior, a multidisciplinary design studio established in 2007. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned both a BFA and a Bachelor of Architecture in 2003, her work is known for its warm, thoughtful approach to contemporary living.

Blending architectural sensitivity with a relaxed and highly personal aesthetic, Freudenberger creates interiors that feel both refined and deeply lived-in. Her projects have been widely published in publications including Vogue, Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, New York Magazine, Domino, and Martha Stewart.

Alongside her interior practice, she is also the author of several acclaimed design books published with Penguin/Clarkson Potter, including Surf Shack: Laid-Back Living by the Water (2017) and Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (2019).

Jess Cooney is the founder and principal designer of Jess Cooney Interiors, where she has led residential construction, renovation, and custom furnishing projects for more than two decades. Known for creating calm, functional, and highly livable interiors, Cooney and her team have received national recognition with features in Architectural Digest, Martha Stewart Living, HGTV, as well as frequent coverage in The New York Times and The Boston Globe.

Passionate about restoring older homes and developing thoughtful green new-build projects, Cooney specializes in custom built-ins and tailored furnishing solutions designed around family life. Her work combines clean lines, modern sensibilities, and rustic warmth to create interiors that feel both refined and relaxed. Together with her team, she focuses on meticulous project execution and close client collaboration, developing spaces that are elegant, durable, and deeply functional for everyday living.