TA M A R A E AT ON U PDATE S A PI E C E OF B R O O K LYN H I S T ORY
he path to becoming an interior designer can originate from a variety of places. Often it’s an inherited trait as many a designer has joined the family business, an innate desire to create the minute they crawl out of the cradle, or a surreptitious route via a related profession. For Manhattan designer Tamara Eaton, the decorating bug bit when studying art history, architecture, and economics at New York University. “I always thought I would be an architect,” the designer notes, “so I took CAD classes at Cornell.” It was not until she interned at an architectural firm during college that she realized a career correction was in order. “They had an 36
