Up Close and Personal

For award-winning designer Keith Miller, every project is an expression of the client’s personality, motivations, and story. Julia Millen meets him to find out more

At Miller Interior Design, it’s clear from meeting the team at the outset, that collaborating with individual clients, is all about getting to know ‘true selfs’ and working to build a space that celebrates life, loves and aspirations.

“Our goal always has and always will be, about discovering together how a client wishes to tell the tale of their unique identity and purpose,” explains Keith.  “We then go on to reveal it eloquently, humorously, naturally or whatever tasteful way best suits through an inspiring environment. We honour their history, source their world’s stories and treasures, and respect the architecture, enveloping interiors within the context that is most suitable to how they want to live. Through planning, procurement and project execution, we focus on what drives individual clients to thrive, and then fashion it exquisitely into creating surroundings uniquely personal to them.”

With a collective talent spanning several decades, team Miller Interior Design is made up of, among others, two husband and wife teams: Keith and his wife, artist, writer, educator and designer Beth Marie Miller, and Belgium-based digital modeling duo Tony and Ann Doutreligne. Projects are diligently managed by a wider and highly talented team of directors in design and planning, as well as a hand-picked ‘family’ of talented consultants, specialists and makers.

After studying housing and interior design under acclaimed professors at the University of Kentucky and travelling the country with a field guide to American housing, Keith began operating Miller Interior Design in DATE. His award-winning creativity has since attracted the attention of clients with a vast array of tastes and project requirements.

Keith adds: “Beth Marie enjoys consulting as a specialist in environmentally responsible design. In addition to her supervisory role at Miller Interior Design, she spearheads our sustainability initiatives. Come 2022, we’ll be  celebrating her doctoral level Master of Fine Arts Degree in Design for Sustainability from the world class university for creative careers, Savannah College of Art and Design. It’s an exciting time ahead”

Talented duo Tony and Ann Doutreligne meanwhile, studied architecture in the beautiful town of Ghent on the coast northwest of Brussels and bring a European sensibility to the team, collectively bringing world-class solutions to every client.

Adds Keith: “The best part of stationing our flagship private studio in the heart of Seattle, is that we get easy access to remarkable tech talent, like every one of our team’s spouses and Carl Lierman, our graphic designer, who geeks out with the geniuses who invented the programmes that graphic designers use every day all over the world. His capacity to work alongside and interpret our vision for various custom details brings much-needed aid for presentations and unique finery.”

Working with a wide array of clients in Seattle and abroad, while investing in luxurious comfort and good design may be a serious business, but for Keith, a positive outlook is a must. He adds: “I always make it a priority to laugh my way through the challenges each project presents. The outcome is always the better for it.”