Elaine Griffin

Elaine Griffin (1964 - ) is one of the United States’s leading interior designers and lifestyle experts. She is ranked as one of House Beautiful’s Top 100 American Designers and is an acknowledged trend forecaster.
Since 1997, Griffin has headed her own residential design firm, Elaine Griffin Interior Design, in New York City. She is a contributing editor, design, for Better Homes & Gardens; a former contributing and special projects editor at Elle Décor, and produced the "Good Works" makeovers for Oprah's O at Home. Her work has additionally appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times , Better Homes & Gardens , New York Magazine and Southern Accents. Griffin has appeared in design segments on the Early Show, , the Today Show, Everyday Elegance with Colin Cowie, The Maury Povich show, and Fox’s The Mike & Juliet Show, among others. Elaine Griffin was a participant in the 2003 Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse. She served as the exclusive on-page design consultant for the new Spiegel catalogue. Her first book, Design Rules: The Professional’s Guide to Becoming Your Own Decorator, was published by Gotham Books in Fall 2009.
A native of Georgia, Griffin earned her B.A. in Art History at Yale University and studied at the New York School of Interior Design. She began her design career in the office of Peter Marino following a nine-year career as a publicist in New York and Paris. Elaine Griffin lives in New York City with her husband, Michael McGarry, a psychoanalyst.
 
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