Designing Tomorrow: The Power of the Maker’s Touch

David Kleinberg is one of the most respected and celebrated names in interior design. Over a thirty-five-year career with projects reaching around the world, Kleinberg has created a body of work that is wide-ranging in style yet always modern in sensibility. Whether boldly inspired or carefully nuanced, Kleinberg’s interiors are above all clean-lined, sophisticated and highly attuned to each client’s lifestyle.
After graduating from Trinity College in 1976, Kleinberg explored the New York design world while working first at Denning & Fourcade and then at Mara Palmer. His talents were further honed during his sixteen-year tenure at the venerable Parish-Hadley Associates, beginning in 1981. Kleinberg left Parish-Hadley in 1997 to start his own firm David Kleinberg Design Associates which today employs twenty.
Kleinberg is a member of the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame and has been honored with the Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York School of Interior Design. He was first named to Architectural Digest’s "The AD 100” list in 2012 and was inducted into the "AD100 Hall of Fame" in December 2025. He has also been a member of Elle Décor A-List since 2011. Kleinberg has participated in the Kips Bay Decorator Show House throughout his career and his work is published internationally. In May 2025, David Kleinberg received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the New York School of Interior Design. He published his monograph Traditional Now: Interiors by David Kleinberg in 2011 and a new book, David Kleinberg Interiors was recently released in March 2025 both by The Monacelli Press. Kleinberg lives in New York City and East Hampton, NY. He serves on the Board of Directors of New York School of Interior Design.

Emily Summers is a renowned interior designer and President/CEO of Emily Summers Design Associates. Beginning her career in 1979, she became known for her collaboration with architects and artists. A member of the AD100, her work has also been featured in VERANDA, Wallpaper*, and Town & Country. She has won multiple awards, including the 2017 Dallas Paper City Design Awards, the 2020 Luxe Magazine RED Awards and has been named a top Dallas designer by D Home for 20 years. Summers has served as Director of Exhibitions and Funding for the Dallas Museum of Art, and she was recruited by President George W. Bush as one of twenty individuals to serve on the Washington-based Advisory Council for Historic Preservation. In January 2019 her book, Distinctly Modern Interiors, was published by Rizzoli.