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Charlotte Moss is an American interior designer, author and philanthropist. She studied English at Virginia Commonwealth University.^[1] In 2009, she received the Elle Décor Vision Award, and in 2010, she was the recipient of the Timeless Design Award from the Royal Oak Foundation. She has written 11 books.^[2]

Early life

Charlotte Moss was born in Richmond, Virginia.^[3][4] She is the oldest of five children. Her father was an Army colonel, her mother was a stay-at-home mom, and her grandmother was employed at the local department store selling china.^[1]

Career

Charlotte Moss founded her interior design business in 1985.^[2] She has decorated private homes across the United States and Europe.^[1][5] Previous clients include Susan and Michael Bloomberg.^[6]

In 2007, she opened the Charlotte Moss Townhouse, a showroom in Manhattan's Upper East Side.^[1][5]

Charlotte Moss has partnered with design companies to create licensed collections. She has designed furniture and wallcoverings for Brunschwig & Fils, fabrics and trims for Fabricut, fine china for Pickard China, furniture and upholstery for Century Furniture, carpet for Stark, home fragrances for Agraria, and framed decorative art for Soicher-Marin, pillows with Eastern Accents, clothing with IBU Movement, and cuff bracelets with P.E. Guerin Hardware.^{[3][7][1][2][8]}

Moss was the guest editor of the House Beautiful November 2013 issue.^[9]

Awards and honorary degree

Charlotte Moss was named an Elle Décor A-List Designer, a Traditional Home Top-20 Design Icon, and made the Traditional Home list of the World's Top 20 Interior Designers. In addition, she received Elle Décor's Vision Award in 2009, the Timeless Design Award from the Royal Oak Foundation in 2010, and the 2012 Circle of Excellence Award in Interior Design from the International Furnishings & Design Association (IFDA). She received an honorary doctorate degree from The New York School of Interior Design. Moss also received the 2013 Bone Marrow Foundation Brandon Tartikoff award.^{[6][2][10][11][12][13][excessive citations]} On December 2, 2014, she was one of three honorees at the American Hospital of Paris Foundation's Annual Gala in New York.[1]

Philanthropy and boards

Charlotte has been recognized for her philanthropic work over the years. She received the Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award for Leadership & Philanthropic Endeavors, the Housing Works Groundbreaker Award, the Edith Wharton Women of Achievement Award, the American Hospital of Paris President’s Award and the Boys Harbor, Salute to Achievement Founder’s Medal for Philanthropy. In 2013, the Bone Marrow Foundation presented her with the Brandon Tartikoff award. On December 2, 2014, she was one of three honorees at the American Hospital of Paris Foundation’s Annual Gala in New York.

Charlotte supports a variety of causes and sits on several boards; she is Emerita Trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, on the Board of The Bone Marrow Foundation, The Order of Saint John, The Madoo Conservancy and the International Council of Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens.

Previously she was an honorary trustee of the American Hospital of Paris, a board member of the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation, an Advisory Board Member of the New York School of Interior Design, a trustee of the Edith Wharton Restoration, on the Executive Cabinet of the Leaders of Design Council, a trustee of The Irvington Institute for Medical Research, on the Couture Council of the Museum at F.I.T, a board member at the Bard Center for Graduate Studies, Board Member, a Teach for America Guest Teacher. She was the Vice President of the Parrish Art Museum and a co-chair of their Landscape Pleasures Garden Symposium from 1998 – 2009. Charlotte has chaired and co-chaired many galas including the UNICEF Snowflake Gala, the New York City Ballet Spring Gala, The Smile Collection Gala for Operation Smile, Gala Chair, Fashion Week/Lincoln Center and for the Kips Bay Showhouse Gala.

Works

Books

To date, Charlotte Moss has authored 11 books.^{[6][14][15][16]}

• A Passion for Detail (1991)
• Creating A Room (1995)
• The Poetry of Home (1998)
• Design Inspirations (2004)
• Winter House (2005)
• A Flair for Living (2008)
• Charlotte Moss Decorates (2011)
• A Visual Life: Scrapbooks, Collages and Inspirations (2013)
• Charlotte Moss: Garden Inspirations (2015)
• Charlotte Moss Entertains (2018)
• Charlotte Moss Flowers (2021)

Magazine columns

• “Women in the Garden” (Flower 2023–present)
• “In Good Taste” (Veranda 2021)
• “Charlotte’s Eye” and “Charlotte Moss On” (House Beautiful 2014–2017)
• “Home and Garden” (New York Times T Magazine 2014)
• “Home and Garden” (Wall Street Journal 2010-2013)

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