I can't help connecting everything I read to design, so the first outlier in design that came to my mind was Albert Hadley and with him some members of what I call "The magic circle." No I don't mean Palates, you!, I mean all the successful designers who once worked for Albert Hadley and seem to have enduring success. I'm not going to go into detail as how I calculated the hours because it could be tedious but only the period from 1962 to 1999 during the time of Parish-Hadley partnership He seems to have had under his belt more than 72,224 hours; business hours only. That is not counting the times when a designer keeps working mentally and takes every detail of the work home. Isn't that amazing!?
Bunny Williams who worked for Alber Hadley for 22 years. During that time she had only 42,944 hours. Amazing!
Miles Redd, even though he didn't work directly for Mr. Hadley but he got some of the magic circle through Bunny. Miles opened his firm in 1998 and before that he worked for Bunny Williams for 5 years and before that for John Rosselli. That is approximately a total of 23 years. You do the math...
David Easton worked for Parish-Hadley from 1967 to 1972 to then found David Eston Interiors. He's been working ever since. Yes, that many hours! Uhm... I wonder if blogging counts. ah.. I don't think so. :(
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