Gibbons talks to us about her famous boss and being a black woman in a racially-exclusive biz

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Nicole Gibbons

What do Oprah, Netflix original series Orange is the New Black, and stylish New York City interiors have in common" Stellar designer Nicole Gibbons. Gibbons is a Harlem-based design wiz whose career began when she started her blog in 2008. Fast-forward eight years, and she has a television show, Home Made Simple, on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and is working with clients like actress Adrienne C. Moore of Orange is the New Black fame and on both residential and commercial projects alike.
For this episode of the Curbed Appeal, we sat down with Gibbons to talk about her career (she didn?t start out in interior design), what it?s like to have Oprah as a boss, and why having people of color represented in interior design coverage is so important. If you want to check out Nicole?s work (and you should!) you can head over to her website and follow her on Instagram.
Listen to it all?or read the interview in full?below!

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Zoe Rosenberg: I'm Zoe Rosenberg.
Asad Syrkett: I'm Asad Syrkett.
Zoe: This is The Appeal, the Curbed podcast.
Asad: Interior design is something that, I think, intimidates a lot of people. Even if they're interested in design and have strong tastes, they don't really know how to bring their ideas into fruition in their own ...