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Aug 15 2008 9:28am EDT

How Unregulated Interior Design Destroyed Contemporary Cinema

Alex Tabarrok takes aim at the American Society of Interior Designers:

As Carpenter and Ross point out in an excellent article in Regulation from which I have drawn:

In more than 30 years of advocating for regulation, the ASID and its ilk have yet to identify a single documented incident resulting in harm to anyone from the unlicensed practice of interior design.

They clearly haven't been very imaginative, in that case.

Exempli gratia: John Teall of Flux Interiors, being English, is, I believe, unlicensed in the US. Yet he inflicted this house on Roland Emmerich, and, quite possibly as a direct result, Roland Emmerich inflicted 10,000 BC onto an unsuspecting mass public.

As the ASID says:

Every decision an interior designer makes in one way or another affects the health, safety, and welfare of the public.

Regulate UK interior designers! Regulate them now!

(HT: Gumby)

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