Professional Practice for Interior Designers - Hardcover

Piotrowski, Christine M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471384011 ISBN 13: 9780471384014

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

The tools needed to create and manage a thriving interior design practice

This essential sourcebook provides all of the information needed to establish and manage a productive, profitable interior design firm. Filled with savvy business and career advice, Professional Practice for Interior Designers, Third Edition delivers updated and expanded coverage of the full range of legal, financial, management, marketing, administrative, and ethical issues faced by sole practitioners, firm principals, and managers.

This comprehensive reference lays out clear, practical guidelines on how to structure a contract and prevent legal problems; work with other designers, allied professionals, clients, and vendors; and calculate fees that are both fair and profitable. Recommended reading for NCIDQ candidates, it offers easy–to–follow tips and instruction on how to:

• Write and implement a successful business plan
• Choose the right form of business to fit specific needs
• Institute strategic planning
• Develop effective promotional tools
• Manage finances and set up a computerized accounting system
• Manage employees and team members

Establishing a comprehensive foundation for effective business practice, Professional Practice for Interior Designers, Third Edition is the one–stop resource that no interior designer can afford to be without.

About this title

Synopsis:

Interior designers must be proficient in a variety of business practices to contribute to, manage, or launch a successful design office. This guide offers comprehensive coverage of professional practice for interior designers. The third edition provides a solid overview of the full range of legal, financial, management marketing, and administrative issues facing interior designers. The study's comprehensive approach embraces issues and procedures for commercial and residential design offices, and large and small businesses. It includes chapters on "personal power" and "setting up the studio" with information on the integration of technology into the design office.

About the Author:

CHRISTINE M. PIOTROWSKI, ASID, IIDA, is the owner of Christine M. Piotrowski and Associates in Phoenix, Arizona, and a former professor of interior design at Northern Arizona State University in Flagstaff. She has more than 20 years of commercial and residential design experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471384011
• ISBN 13: 9780471384014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 672