Nirmada: Interior Design in New York City

Kati Curtis, Interior Designer New York

ASID, CID, LEED AP ID&C

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Kati Curtis is a Certified Interior Designer in the State of New York (CID) and a Leadership in Energy Efficient Design Accredited Professional (LEED® AP) with the knowledge and skills to successfully steward the LEED certification process. LEED APs have demonstrated a thorough understanding of green building practices, principles and the LEED Rating System. Kati is also certified by the National Council of Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) whose core purpose is to protect the health, life safety and welfare of the public by establishing standards of competence in the practice of interior design. The NCIDQ serves to identify to the public those interior designers who have met the standards for professional practice by passing the NCIDQ Examination.

Kati’s interior design philosophy and background:

Recently featured in Apartment Therapy’s Re-Nest, and on HGTV.com, Kati Curtis’s eco-friendly firm Nirmada brings a sustainable, modern approach to design. Kati believes that good design is as much about designing responsibly as it is about creating beautiful and memorable spaces. Her broad vision offers clients modern solutions which are sophisticated, yet environmentally aware. Her wealth of diverse experience includes luxury New York City apartments and commercial and hospitality projects. Kati is the one of the only LEED AP ID&C, residential designers in Manhattan.

Kati trained at the Savannah College of Art and Design where she learned the importance of marrying technology with traditional design tools, such as the art of hand sketching. An artist and painter, Kati utilizes both hand drawings and computer renderings to communicate your designs to you.

Before forming Nirmada, Kati worked primarily with architects where she learned the importance of accurate technical documentation and the impact of proper building practices. Her successful career led her from Washington DC, to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and then to New York City where she began her own practice in 2004.

Kati has been featured in such publications as USA Weekend, The Wall Street Journal, and on BobVila.com, and writes almost daily about her personal design experiences on her blog nirmada.com/blog. Kati’s projects have received nationwide recognition including the International Interior Design Association’s Silver Award in 2002 and the Army Corps of Engineers Design award for an adaptive reuse and preservation of the National War College in Washington DC, which had originally been designed by the McKim, Meade and White in 1908.

Kati’s value of giving back to the design community includes teaching Interior Design at Parsons School of Design in New York, volunteering for Design Industry Foundation For Aids, and the Thorn Tree Project in conjunction with Clodagh Cares. Kati currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers, and Interior Designers for Legislation in New York. Her personal interest in making a difference in people’s lives through design translates into spaces which are individual and uniquely about you – the client.