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Chelsea Bruner

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Chelsea Bruner is a specialist in the history of design, and a practicing designer. Chelsea studied interior design at Florida State University, has a master’s degree in the History of Art & Design from Pratt Institute, and a PhD in art and architectural history from the City University of New York. Her research and writing center on architecture and interiors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on elite patronage and the professionalization of architectural design in the Gilded Age. Co-edited with Margaret Laster, New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age, was published by Routledge in 2018. In addition to design work, Chelsea has taught design and architectural history at the Spitzer School of Architecture City College of New York, Pratt Institute, and New York University before joining the faculty of Ringling College as a design historian.