The Savannah designer has built her practice around an unfashionable but useful idea: a successful interior is not merely seen. It is planned, priced, manufactured and installed as one continuous thought.
A modest first renovation became a 28-year education in how people live. Now the Crown Point designer has turned a family partnership into a studio where a room begins with feeling and ends with the troublesome matter of making it all fit.
Casey Bell is the co-founder and CEO of Aecore, a technology-enabled commercial general contractor based in San Jose, California. A UC Berkeley graduate and former Turner Construction project manager, Bell took a payments startup called Net30 through Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch, then pivoted the whole thing into a construction company built with software at its core. Aecore delivers office fit-outs, life sciences facilities, R&D centers, and retail buildouts while running its own proprietary tools for scheduling, photo documentation, and rapid pricing.
Matt Rossie is the President and CEO of Webcor, the San Francisco-based general contractor behind some of California's most complicated buildings. He climbed the company over 22 years from the client side of construction into the COO seat, then the corner office, on January 1, 2023.