Designer's Oasis

Oct 02 2024 59 mins 1

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In today's episode, I had a chance to sit down with Dan Mazzarini, Principal and Creative Director at BHDM Design & ARCHIVE by Dan Mazzarini. BHDM Design is an award-winning, bi-coastal, multi-disciplinary firm offering residential, commercial, and hospitality design services. ARCHIVE by Dan Mazzarini provides a curated selection of home and lifestyle products, shopped from all of his favorite resources. Through ARCHIVE, Dan educates, encourages, and inspires a global network of consumers to incorporate luxury to their everyday lives.

We talk about balancing diversifying your portfolio and niching down. We talk about having a signature style and creating "memory points" on projects. We also dive into a new project ARCHIVE by Dan Mazzarini.

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We discuss how Dan transitioned from retail to hospitality and then built his freelance portfolio to start his own firm.
We discuss whether it's important to build a signature style or diversify your portfolio or projects.
We jump into how to choose which interior design projects are a good fit and how to find out if you have an emotional connection to the project.
Dan shares the concept of creating memory points in design projects to stand out.
We end with a discussion on mental health in the design industry and steps to take to protect your own.

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