With over 12 years in residential and commercial interior design, Leigh Calmar Psaltos, an ASID allied member and a certified member of the Interior Refiners NetworkTM brings a wealth of experience and knowledge that is unique among interior redecorators and valuable to her private residential clients. Clients have included an array of celebrities and noteworthy industrialists as well as corporate clients such as JPMorganChase and Citigroup.
Ms. Psaltos trained personally with Lauri Ward, nationally recognized pioneer of one day redecorating , best selling author of Use What You Have Interiors TM and founder of the Interior Refiners NetworkTM who has appeared on Oprah and HGTV.
In the mid-'90s, Ms. Psaltos worked for the late Naomi Leff. She credits Ms. Leff as being one of her most influential mentors. Under Leff's tutelage, Leigh participated on projects for several high-profile celebrity clients, both residential and commercial. Subsequently, Ms. Psaltos worked on residential projects for the designer, Stephen Shadley. In January 2005, both Leff and Shadley were recognized by Architectural Digest as among the "30 Deans of American Design".
Leigh began her professional career as a Mechanical Artist and Art Director for Boston's leading advertising agency, Hill Holiday Connors Cosmopoulos.
Ms. Psaltos earned her Certificate in Interior Design in 1995 from the Boston Architectural College, where she studied interior architcture and won the Interior Design Thesis Award for Retail Design. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art /Watercolor and Oils from the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio and presented her work at the Ebert Art Center in a show entitled: "Landscaping with Human Forms". She also studied under the late master Mark Winslow Potter while at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and with the late Richard Pionk at the Art Student's League in New York City.
Leigh currently resides on the Hudson River Waterfront in northern New Jersey with her husband and son.
