In this month’s Style Icon feature we profile interior designer and Bear-Hill owner Kevin Walsh. Editor Amanda Hoelzeman talks to Walsh about how the industry “discovered” him and what he regreted not buying when he had the chance.
“Absolutely,” says Kevin Walsh, when asked if he considers himself a person with a wide variety of interests.
The seventh of eight children, Walsh opened his interior design business and showroom, Bear-Hill Interiors, in 2000, after a short stint in the banking and mortgage business, followed by cosmetology school and a decade-long career cutting and styling hair.
His evolution into the interior design world was a bit more organic than intentional. “I have always loved design, fashion, interiors, architecture, the arts,” he says, “but I’m not one of those people who is like, ‘I rearranged the furniture when I was three’ or whatever. I would tinker with stuff when I was younger, but I don’t remember ever having any epiphanies about being a designer.”
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