Alison Spear

Alison Spear, AIA, has had offices both in Miami and New York City, she lives between New York City and the Hudson River Valley with her family. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University. Ms. Spear is a licensed architect in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida and is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the New York Architectural League, the National Council of Registration Boards. Alison Spear, AIA received two American Institute of Architects Awards of Excellence and was selected as Interior Design Firm of the year. In 2004 Ms. Spear was included as one of the top 125 Interior Designers of the year by House Beautiful Magazine. In 2009, Ms. Spear achieved her LEED AP certification.

Ms. Spear’s career began as a Junior Designer in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , the New York City office of Arquitectonica, a Miami based world renown architecture firm, and the studio of famed decorator Juan Pablo Molyneux. In 1989 she began her firm with her first project for Bright Lights, Big City author, Jay McInerney, published in October 1989 in House & Garden Magazine followed by projects for Francis Ford Coppola and Katie Ford, owner of Ford Models. In 1999, Ms.Spear designed the award winning 20,000 square-foot Holly Hunt show room in Miami’s Design District. Ms. Spear, in 2002, revamped Andre Balaz’s , (of New York City’s famous Mercer Hotel fame), the 107 room Standard Hotel on Miami Beach. Ms. Spear has designed many Upper East Side residences and downtown lofts in New York City, Washington D.C., and California. Other projects of note include a twelve story, sixty-six loft type residential condominium on Miami Beach for the luxury ‘New Urbanism’ development Aqua Island by developer Craig Robins.

Furniture and lighting design has always been part of Ms. Spear’s portfolio with products  produced for Coalesse, Odegard and an exclusive “Spearlines”  project for Aqua Island on Miami Beach.