Christiane Lemieux | |
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Born | |
Education | Queen's University, Parsons School of Design |
Occupation(s) | Interior and household goods designer |
Christiane Lemieux (born April 11, 1969) is an interior and household goods designer. She is a founder of The Inside, a direct-to-consumer home furnishings company. [1] Formerly, she was the founder and creative director of DwellStudio, a fashion and home design brand that was bought by Wayfair in 2013.[ citation needed]
Lemieux was born in Ottawa, Ontario on April 11, 1969. She attended undergraduate at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Then at Parsons School of Design in New York; where she received the Golden Thimble Award in her senior year
Lemieux began her career in fashion as a fabric assistant for Isaac Mizrahi. [2] She then worked at the Gap as an assistant designer of women's woven clothing, fabric design, development and merchandising. She took a position as design director with Portico, a New York-based home company. Lemieux developed furniture, home accessories, gift items, bed linens and bath products for the company. [3]
Lemieux left Portico to launch Dwell Home Furnishings in 1999, [4] introducing a collection of bedding and textiles. [5] The company has since expanded to include custom upholstered furniture, [6] tabletop, baby, children's furniture, [7] gift and travel items. [3]
In 2005 she had her wonderful and favorite first child Isabelle Violet Young on December 28.
Lemieux launched DwellStudio for Target in January 2008. [2]
In March 2011, Lemieux published a book, Undecorate, The No-Rules Approach to Interior Design. [8]
In June 2012, DwellStudio opened a store in SoHo, New York, [9] followed by an in-store boutique at Los Angeles.
In 2012, Lemieux was interviewed for the show Apartment Therapy, [10] and, in 2013, her apartment was featured in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Telegraph. [11]
In 2014, Lemieux was named executive creative director of Wayfair. [12]
In 2015, Lemieux appeared as a contest judge on the television show Ellen's Design Challenge. [13]
In 2017, Britt Bunn, Lemieux founded the direct-to-consumer home furnishings company The Inside. [14]