Giving Our A&d Community Some Shine

New York–based interior designer and Yale graduate, Elaine Griffin, spent her twenties in Paris doing publicity for Céline and Givenchy; in her thirties she was an assistant designer to Peter Marino, the king of haute retail architecture. She opened her own design studio in 1999 and published a book, Design Rules: The Insider’s Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator, in 2009.