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Interior Design
  • Custom Design Plan
  • Design Consultation
  • Room makeover
  • Design Concierge
  • Designer Buying
  • Trade Support
No project is too big or small – from design tune-ups to single room makeovers, from color consultation to shopping lists, vendor referrals, or layouts. Schedule a complimentary 1 hour design consultation today!
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Trade discounts and pricing with no markups. Customize your interior design plan to your individual needs at a low hourly rate.
French Country interior design
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Abbie Jacobson hospitality design
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Hospitality Design
  • Project Management:  Supervises multiple locations and venues, coordinates teams of 10–30 designers, artists and craftspeople, travels to venues nationwide to ensure brand and visual merchandising consistency.
  • Design:  Promotes business opportunities to develop targeted market strategies, identify regional issues and develop design solutions that maximize resources and drive profitability.  Use curated design concepts to drive business to your venue that sets your restaurant apart from the competition.
  • Visual Merchandising Design: Develop and deliver visual concepts to promote retail brands, products and services, create memorable event experiences, and drive sales.  Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to create annual visual strategies and promotional events to inspire interest.
  • Procurement:  Manage procurement, source smallwares, props, fabrics, hardware, lighting and decorative arts.
  • Food and Beverage:  Trains, mentors and coaches merchandising and sales teams to execute designs according to strategy and branding.
  • Sustainability:  Conduct research on current and future trends in design and lifestyle that support long-term ecological balance using products that aren’t harmful to the environment or deplete natural resources.

Set Decorator
  • ​Design: Responsible for design and fabrication of upholstery, window treatments, painting and aging of set dressing, working with illustrators, set designers, scenic artists, sculptors, prop makers, metal smiths and other specialty craftspeople.
  • Collaborate:  Meet with creative team to determine design, decoration, lighting and look of the project and how characters and environments are to be portrayed and reflected within the layers of the set.
  • Research:  Present period and style inspiration for for project with research, swatches, colors and samples.
  • Budget:  Negotiate for production approval, daily monitoring of the set dressing purchases, rentals and set dressing labor budget.
  • Manage: Hire the set dressing crew and support contractors, set the tone for the work to be done, supervise the process, and be available for meetings, questions and support.
  • Organize: Break down the script, identify sets and practical locations, plan the objects to be acquired for each set and schedule all deadlines for procurement.
  • Shop:  Purchase, rent, product placement and borrow all set dressing needed: furniture, fabrics, decorative objects, industrial items, lighting fixtures, window & floor treatments, art, landscaping, paint, wallpaper and finishes.
  • Dress:  Oversee the dressing of the sets with the Leadman and set dressers to the satisfaction and approval of the Production Designer.
  • Present:  Open each new set on location or stage with the Director, working with Set Dec crew to make any necessary adjustments.
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Abbie Jacobson is a member of I.A.T.S.E Studio Mechanics Local 476

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