The Founders
A Shared Belief in Knoxville’s Talent
The summit brings architecture, landscape architecture, construction, interiors, and art into a shared conversation. It creates an opportunity for homeowners to meet local professionals, understand how their work connects, and approach their own projects with greater confidence.
About the Summit
For too long, exceptional design has been associated with somewhere else—the larger market, the farther city, the name discovered beyond our own region. Knoxville Design Summit begins with a different premise. Some of the most thoughtful interiors, compelling collections, beautiful buildings, and creative ideas are already taking shape here. The summit was created to bring that work into focus.
By gathering designers, architects, builders, landscape architects, art advisors, collectors, homeowners, makers, and industry leaders in one place, Knoxville Design Summit creates room for disciplines to overlap, relationships to begin, and a broader understanding of our region’s creative identity to emerge. Not as a city waiting for its design moment. As a city already living it.
Founder
Natalie Clayman Interior Design
Natalie’s signature eclectic style brings together old and new through a modern traditional lens, layering bold pattern, rich texture, and unexpected details to create spaces that feel collected, personal, and enduring. Rooted in collaboration, NCID approaches each project with an understanding that a well-designed interior should not only be beautiful, but also reflect the individuality of the people who live and work within it.
Founder
Lee McIntyre
Art Advisory
Through thoughtful research, relationships, and a highly personal approach to collecting, LMAA helps clients build collections with depth, relevance, and lasting meaning.
