>>> meet the designers behind projects featured in this issue
Anita Lang Mueller, Allied Member ASID
Anita Lang Mueller is successful. Her Interior Motives, Inc. firm has locations in both Fountain Hills and Scottsdale, Arizona and is known for work on highly detailed, luxury residential projects, including the award-winning Fountain Hills home featured in this issue. She and her team of eight employees have won 25 ASID design awards in the last six years, and her projects have graced the pages of numerous magazines. Though her career has been on an upward trajectory, the Chicago-born and Maine-raised interior designer is proudest of her nonprofit community organization, The Inspire Foundation, which she started several years ago. “Each year, we find an individual or organization that could benefit from a remodeling or re-design,” explains Mueller, who moved to Arizona to start her firm in 1992. “Then we sponsor a design competition for local interior design students to create designs for that individual or organization, and help implement the winning project.” The foundation’s most recent undertaking was the redesign of a girls’ dormitory at a group children’s home in Mesa, Arizona. “I think it’s important to give back to the community whenever you can,” says Mueller.
Cherie Goff, AIA
When architect Cherie Goff was getting her bachelor’s in architecture at the University of Oklahoma, she liked to pull people’s legs by hinting she was related to one of the school’s most noted professors--and one of the country’s most iconoclastic architects. “Even though he was long gone before I studied at the University of Oklahoma in the early 1990s, I liked to joke that I was a relative of Bruce Goff’s,” laughs Goff, a Colorado native. “I don’t think anyone believed me.” Nonetheless, Cherie Goff did carry many of Bruce Goff’s architectural tenets with her as she went on to receive her master’s in architecture from the University of Texas, then working and traveling throughout the United States and Europe. Like the professor/architect, she’s been focusing on modern residential design and working with green, recycled and unconventional materials since she joined Boulder, Colorado-based Harvey M. Hine Architecture in 2004. “We also do mixed-use and loft projects,” she says of the 20-year-old firm, of which she is now a partner. “We love all challenges.” One of Goff’s most recent projects, a home in Boulder that she did with Harvey M. Hine Architecture colleague, interior designer Kate Ohle, is featured in this issue.
Kate Ohle, IIDA, Allied Member ASID
Kate Ohle, 25, knew at a young age that she wanted to go into interior design, and by the ripe old age of 21 landed her job at Harvey M. Hine Architecture in Boulder, Colorado to launch the firm’s interiors department. “I was always the kid who rearranged and re-painted her room,” explains Ohle, a Lakewood, Colorado native. “I think I drove my mother crazy.” In high school, a boyfriend’s mother was an architect, and Ohle picked up a part-time job at her firm working as a receptionist, learning about design by osmosis. After getting her degree in interior design from Colorado State University, she got in the door for the Harvey M. Hine interview through an industry connection and a desire that matched the architectural firm’s philosophy of creating interiors from the ground up, at the start of a project. “We do mostly residential interiors,” she explains of the firm and its interiors department, “and we like the architect, interior designer and contractor to work as a team.” Ohle’s most recent project, a residence in Boulder that shows off her penchant for contemporary design, is featured in this issue. It also won a 2008 design award from ASID Colorado.
Anita Lang Mueller is successful. Her Interior Motives, Inc. firm has locations in both Fountain Hills and Scottsdale, Arizona and is known for work on highly detailed, luxury residential projects, including the award-winning Fountain Hills home featured in this issue. She and her team of eight employees have won 25 ASID design awards in the last six years, and her projects have graced the pages of numerous magazines. Though her career has been on an upward trajectory, the Chicago-born and Maine-raised interior designer is proudest of her nonprofit community organization, The Inspire Foundation, which she started several years ago. “Each year, we find an individual or organization that could benefit from a remodeling or re-design,” explains Mueller, who moved to Arizona to start her firm in 1992. “Then we sponsor a design competition for local interior design students to create designs for that individual or organization, and help implement the winning project.” The foundation’s most recent undertaking was the redesign of a girls’ dormitory at a group children’s home in Mesa, Arizona. “I think it’s important to give back to the community whenever you can,” says Mueller. 
When architect Cherie Goff was getting her bachelor’s in architecture at the University of Oklahoma, she liked to pull people’s legs by hinting she was related to one of the school’s most noted professors--and one of the country’s most iconoclastic architects. “Even though he was long gone before I studied at the University of Oklahoma in the early 1990s, I liked to joke that I was a relative of Bruce Goff’s,” laughs Goff, a Colorado native. “I don’t think anyone believed me.” Nonetheless, Cherie Goff did carry many of Bruce Goff’s architectural tenets with her as she went on to receive her master’s in architecture from the University of Texas, then working and traveling throughout the United States and Europe. Like the professor/architect, she’s been focusing on modern residential design and working with green, recycled and unconventional materials since she joined Boulder, Colorado-based Harvey M. Hine Architecture in 2004. “We also do mixed-use and loft projects,” she says of the 20-year-old firm, of which she is now a partner. “We love all challenges.” One of Goff’s most recent projects, a home in Boulder that she did with Harvey M. Hine Architecture colleague, interior designer Kate Ohle, is featured in this issue. 
Kate Ohle, 25, knew at a young age that she wanted to go into interior design, and by the ripe old age of 21 landed her job at Harvey M. Hine Architecture in Boulder, Colorado to launch the firm’s interiors department. “I was always the kid who rearranged and re-painted her room,” explains Ohle, a Lakewood, Colorado native. “I think I drove my mother crazy.” In high school, a boyfriend’s mother was an architect, and Ohle picked up a part-time job at her firm working as a receptionist, learning about design by osmosis. After getting her degree in interior design from Colorado State University, she got in the door for the Harvey M. Hine interview through an industry connection and a desire that matched the architectural firm’s philosophy of creating interiors from the ground up, at the start of a project. “We do mostly residential interiors,” she explains of the firm and its interiors department, “and we like the architect, interior designer and contractor to work as a team.” Ohle’s most recent project, a residence in Boulder that shows off her penchant for contemporary design, is featured in this issue. It also won a 2008 design award from ASID Colorado.