The Interior Design Business Handbook - Hardcover

Knackstedt, Mary V.; Haney, Laura J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442011288 ISBN 13: 9780442011284

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992

Synopsis

An essential guide to starting and managing an interior design business, this book offers updated resource listings and additional information on computers, service, photography, and education. Hundreds of proven techniques are offered on how to build a design business and run it profitably and effectively.

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From the Author

IDBH is a guide to starting and managing a successful firm
What does it take to be an interior designer? Aptitude, education, stubbornness, and a working knowledge of general business practices all help. For many designers, business practices are somewhat of a mystery because they are rarely explained in language that has meaning to designers. Mary Knackstedt's more than 30 years of interior design practice helped her streamline business practices to the needs of the interior design industry. This book covers the broad range of a designer's business world, from the potential clients and sources to attorneys, insurance agents and more. There are sample forms and contracts, clear insturctions for a variety of ways to price design jobs, and a guide to how to set up a design office. The strategies in this book can enable a designer to pinpoint the areas of her or his business that need attention. There are procedures to remedy most business problems. This is a refernce you'll want to keep on your desk. A comprehensive index allows you to look up specific areas of interest.

About the Author

About the Authors Mary V. Knackstedt, ASID, IFDA, is an acclaimed speaker, a prolific author, and a much–sought consultant on the business of interior design. She is also founder and president of two highly successful design firms. As a consultant, Knackstedt has helped organize many new businesses and developed strategies that have reversed failing businesses. Her own firms, Knackstedt Inc. and Business Design Inc. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and New York City, have handled hundreds of projects ranging from small offices and residences to institutional complexes with more than a hundred buildings. Knackstedt is a contributing editor and columnist for Interiors & Sources magazine and is the author of two previous books, Interior Design for Profit and Profitable Career Options for Designers. She is the producer of Design Business Monthly, an audio–cassette service on current business practices. Laura J. Haney is a former editor and writer for The Designer, Upholstery Industry, Professional Office Design, and Gifts & Decorative Accessories magazines who develops and edits books on design.

Edition details

• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442011288
• ISBN 13: 9780442011284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2