Leslie Moore

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula with ASID Interior Designer, Alice Neiman Moore, as my mother, mentor and teacher. My love and passion for interior design, textiles, color and art was developed at home and was a daily part of my life. I am very grateful that I had a mother that inspired me to love beauty, art and design. 

From an early age I worked alongside my mother, her favorite part of design being drafting and creating floor plans with elegant lines of color and detail. My favorite part was choosing the fabrics, textiles, wallpaper, paint colors and design elements. We were a great team and complimented each other’s talents well. 

My mother expanded her design skills by studying under the SF Guru of Color: Rudolph Schaeffer. I learned from her what she learned from the color guru. An amazing and unique training in color. I was never afraid of being bold with color, nor did I ever question my eye for choosing color and it was an area of design in which I had complete confidence and passion.

After graduating from college I was planning on joining my mother in her business, however, my plans changed and I decided I needed to do something new and different from Interior Design. Design had been an everyday part of my life since I was a child . I still frequently visited the San Francisco design and furniture showrooms with my mother and that is how I found a job opening for sales in the gift industry. That is when my career in the gift industry began.

In 1991 I began selling for local San Francisco Bay Area artists and makers. I was able to combine my love for design and art with a career in working with artists and helping them create successful wholesale brands.

Supporting artists and cottage industry has continued to be my focus. I love how quickly the market changes, following the trends, always having something new to sell and bringing innovative and creative products while helping small and local businesses succeed. 

I love supporting local business as that is what makes a community vital, unique and special. I also love helping create new products for the market and helping my accounts create custom designs with the wholesale brands I represent so that they can have a unique and relevant product. 

In 2006 I began my Interior Design and Paint Color Consulting business. I continue to do both businesses and find that they both involve overlapping and complimentary skills. 

I have seen many changes over the years in design and manufacturing and am continuously learning and evolving and  love seeing where the trends lead. I am blessed to have always loved what I do and I love the challenge and creativity both businesses bring to my life.