ABOUT

Westley Spruill is the engaging craftsman of luxury interior design, fine furniture and accessories for thoughtfully inspired clients. Mention NC State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and interior design may not be the first thing you think of but it’s part of the package. As Owner of Deeson Design, Westley draws upon formal training in architectural design, product design and textiles as well as his hands-on experience with a variety of fine building crafts to create comprehensive and award winning design statements. His goal for any design project is to reflect the client’s taste and highest aspirations and to create a product that is the perfect rendering of a partnership between client and designer.

PASSING THOUGHTS

Sure, we all totally enjoy being the topic of conversation don’t we? But it’s truly a task to write about one’s self even in the third person…unless it’s absolutely true…right?

When she was yelling at me to “clean up that room down there,” I’m sure that she had no real intention of setting the standard for a clean, flexible and sophisticated design aesthetic that would also have her name attached to it. Deeson Design derives it’s name from the old Scandinavian and East African matronymic tradition of naming. After all Dee Spruill was my first design and purchasing instructor and just like in the early days anything, including architecture, furniture, fashion or food, is fair game for design interpretation.

The elegant mark that is the logo for Deeson Design is a stylized image of a ceremonial axe called the Prestige Axe, now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. It comes from the Nsapo/Songye peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 20th century, and was first proposed as an icon for a cake decoration by our good friend Mary Hickie, a registered architect. Her sketch was adopted and refined into the logo for Deeson Design by the renowned Boston graphic designer David Cajolet.

Communication via the internet requires the use of photography and I am indebted to many people for sharing their talents. Ed Wonsek, Eric Roth, Mary Parker and Ed Jacoby are some of those whose work is featured here. Your work inspires me to make more so that I can see it through your lens too.

Dee Spruill, Albert Spruill, Edward Allen, Kenneth E. Hurd, Bob Slattery, Miriam Torres and Christopher Shaw. This is only a representative list of the people whom I thank every day for the inspiration, support and opportunities that they have given to me. My thanks is huge but never enough.