Design Work Experience

Adrienne is especially knowledgeable about 20th century design having worked hands on for the noted dealers Liz O’Brien and Larry Weinberg. She also worked for the highly successful interior designer and product designer Thomas O’Brien. Her last position at a firm was as Interior Designer for Alan Wanzenberg Architects where she was also responsible for being a Project Manager. She worked with other members of a design team on large-scale residential projects. She has a deep appreciation and respect for classical interior design greats such as David Hicks, Jean Michel Frank, and Sister Parish. With a fresh eye, she applies that awareness of design history to her projects.

Education & Personal Background

Adrienne graduated with honors from Choate Rosemary Hall prep school. She studied Italian and life drawing in Florence, Italy in 1987. She also studied the architecture of Christopher Wren and 18th century landscape garden design in London through the Paul Mellon Art Center of Yale University as well as Irish Literature through Georgetown University in Dublin in 1989. Adrienne graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University as an English Major and a Philosophy Minor in 1991.

In 1995, through a Merit Scholarship, Neff graduated from Sotheby’s American Arts Course, a one year graduate program offered by the auction house that focuses in depth on American fine and decorative arts. The program gave her exposure to private collections and specialist contacts at auction houses and museums across the country. In addition, she also studied interior design at Parsons School of Design and Pratt through their Continuing Education Divisions.

Adrienne is a Professional Member of ICA, the Institute for Classical Architecture. She is also a founding member of the New York Design Exchange, a networking group of New York residential interior designers. For several years Adrienne has been a guest critic in Pratt Institute’s Graduate Design Program.