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When Alan Tanksley’s own Manhattan apartment, with its view of the Empire State Building from the living room and shower, appeared both on the cover of Metropolitan Home and in the pages of Elle Decor Magazine, the designer’s extraordinary skill at blending furniture, furnishings and art from virtually every era drew international acclaim. This same extraordinary vision and highly personalized style characterize every one of Mr. Tanksley’s timeless designs for a most appreciative clientele both in the United States and abroad. Mr. Tanksley and his staff of ten are among America’s leading practitioners of residential design and of detailed interior space planning and custom furniture and fixture design. Renowned as an expert colorist, Mr. Tanksley creates shimmering palettes that ultimately manage to make every interior space both exciting and relaxing simultaneously – a must for his demanding, highly exclusive clients. His day-to-day working relationships with such leading architects as Maya Lin and Robert Orr give the firm the unusual ability to draw on expert talents to implement a wide range of architectural renovations for each project that it undertakes. Prior to founding his own firm in 1993, Alan Tanksley was a partner in another firm and was previously an associate with the distinguished designer Mark Hampton. He worked closely with Mr. Hampton on the design and supervision of many of the company’s most notable residential projects. Mr. Tanksley is a graduate of Arizona State University’s School of Architecture specializing in interior architecture.