GAIL BRINN WILKINS - Key Persons

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• Professional ASID Designer

Gail Brinn Wilkins, one of the best-known Charlotte personalities, is certainly one of the top Charlotte interior designers. For over thirty years, her designer room in the Charlotte ASID Showcase House was considered extremely special with its wonderfully elusive and unchanging appeal. "It's Gail's room, I would know it anywhere!" is heard over and over again although each room reflected a different style design with endearing design and always comfort and function. What is that special Gail Brinn Wilkins look and flair? Who is Gail Brinn Wilkins? From Sanford, NC Gail has been a professional ASID designer for more than 36 years. She attended the New York School of Interior Design and participated in the Parsons School of Design "Study in Paris" program, where she studied design at the Louvre. Working with a top Charlotte designer for seven years, she learned the "nuts and bolts" of the design profession. Principal in her own business for the past 36 years, she has used that training to create uniquely personalized elegance for a burgeoning list of corporate and residential clients from New York to Washington State, most recently Clearwater, Florida. From an at-home space, an adding machine, typewriter and a few samples, the very first client led to another, and then many others. With a support team, a wonderful banker, some reliable resourceful suppliers, and excellent subcontractors, Gail Brinn Wilkins, Inc. prospered and grew. A lion logo, Gail's trademark, embossed on a gilt card, has been the firm's and Gail's icon from the beginning. Gail Brinn Wilkins, Inc. is capable of designing and producing exclusive custom wallpaper, carpets, rugs, lamps, cabinetry and other furnishings to fit the special needs and tastes of each client. What makes a Gail Brinn Wilkins project so uniquely pleasing? The principal of Gail Brinn Wilkins, Incorporated blends an inherent architectural sense with a rare capacity for lush design skillfully interwoven with the client's personal taste and vision. Gail's passion for winning eclectic mixture of the traditional in fabrics and furniture memorably combined with contemporary design creates delight among clients who come to her seeking an escape for the typical Charlotte ambiance of the predictable. Gail's professional of Interior Designers (ASID). She was voted Designer of the Year by the North and South Carolina Chapters of ASID as well as many other design awards in her field through the years. Her home and garden were selected for the 1972 and the 1988 Mint Museum Home and Garden Tour of fine houses. Her work has been published in many local and national publications; she also has written many articles on design as well as speaking through the years to many organizations and interior design students.