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"DCOTA owner Charles S. Cohen, third from left, with the panelists\u2014interior designers Geoffrey Bradfield and Scott Snyder and architect Alexander Gorlin.\n\nFrom the thorny issue of how to get paid once the draperies are hung and the last vase is placed to the basics of how to price furniture and fabrics, three experts revealed all in a lively panel, \"The Business of Design.\" In a spirited and engaging discussion, renowned AD 100 interior designers Geoffrey Bradfield and Scott Snyder and AD 100 architect Alexander Gorlin shared the ups and downs of their careers\u2014first breaks, client horror stories\u2014and offered a primer on how to build and run a thriving firm.\n\nThe keynote opening panel, hosted by Architectural Digest editor-in-chief Paige Rense, kicked off the Design Center of the Americas Winter Market, in Dania Beach, Florida. In the town hall-style meeting, the pros fielded questions from the standing-room-only audience\u2014many of them designers early in their careers\u2014and explained how to attract clients, market a business, get published and survive during uncertain economic times.\n\nOwing to the seminar's enormous success, Rense has followed it with similar events; the next, on April 22, is at the Decorative Center Houston."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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