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Melissa Makris Interiors is recognized as one of 100 leading designers in Connecticut Cottages & Gardens: Little Black Book of Interior Designers.

ALBERT HADLEY’S ROOMS-with-a-VIEW 2008 Muse and Inspiration
Visit Melissa and her vignette on:
Thursday, November 6th, through Sunday, November 9th Southport Congregational Church
524 Pequot Avenue, Southport Connecticut
More info: www.southportucc.org tel: (203) 255 1594

about

Designer Melissa Makris, infuses interiors with a casual elegance and a timeless approach. Her interior design vision is woven with architecture, history and location with her client’s lifestyle in mind. She has a natural ease integrating the simple lines of vintage pieces with classic modern. Seeing beyond limitations, Melissa is best known for her very creative solutions. Melissa brings joie de vivre to her interiors.

After a successful career working as Creative Director for Bankers Trust, (specializing in branding and identity development), with Art Direction for TIME, New York Magazine, and Connoisseur, she launched Melissa Makris Interiors in 2006.

Her interior design work is featured in Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, HOME Magazine, Country Home, Better Homes and Gardens, Westport Magazine, and Clarkson Potter's The New Apartment Book.

An enthusiastic photographer, she creates fine art photography for the home. This collection includes botanicals, corals, dunes, seascapes, landscapes and portraiture.

She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design, in New York.