“I was constantly rearranging the furniture in my parents’ home—much to their amusement and sometimes frustration,” Mitchell Turnbough says of his early penchant for interior design. He studied with artists and artisans from the age of five, was mentored by the late Benjamin Baldwin while attending Florida’s Ringling School of Art and Design and then worked for Bray-Schaible in New York for 16 years. “I’ll never forget my first day there,” he recalls. “Robert Bray said to me, ‘Just make it pretty,’ and I’ve been doing that ever since.” After the dissolution of Bray-Schaible, Turnbough set up his own studio in 2002, and he has purposely kept it small and personal. “I work alone, with a stable of consultants whom I’ve known professionally for 20 years,” he explains.

Inspiration for his projects—which include architectural and interior design, furniture, home accessories and jewelry—comes from “the opportunity to communicate a simpler way of seeing things.” He says, “We’re getting closer to abandoning the common restrictions—and even names—of traditional rooms in a home.” Recently he worked with a client who had the courage to do just that: “Rooms were designed for multiple anticipated uses and were named according to their geographical location within the house.” Turnbough relies on his imagination for his living. “Although, ironically, the one thing I can’t imagine is doing anything else.”

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