Eberlein Design Consultants Ltd

Specialties

For more than 30 years, Eberlein Design Consultants Ltd. has built its award-​winning reputation for elegant and unique interiors through one simple approach: listening. We listen carefully to our clients to learn about their personalities and their passions. We share their excitement for new surroundings and envision their lives unfolding within. Whether we’re designing residential interiors, restoring prominent landmarks or creating inspiring business environments, each space achieves its potential fully. Our clients are seeking a defining experience, the expression of their dreams and the fulfillment of their goals. And that makes our mission clear: to create interiors that are enveloping, enriching and enduring.

Services Offered:

Interior Design and Planning

Collaboration with Architects, Contractors and Artisans on our Clients’ behalf

Collections Development for Antiques and Art

History

Established in 1984.

Barbara Eberlein, ASID, was formally educated in the classics, history and art, an education that has served her lifelong passion for design well. She approaches the creation of interiors with the knowledge that, one day, these too will become part of the fabric of history. With an influential voice in today’s dynamic design community, she has built a national reputation for expertise in the restoration of significant historic structures of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries. She is a sought-​after lecturer on classical architecture and design, equally respected for her scholarly mastery and boundless enthusiasm for the field. Being an inveterate traveler constantly absorbing the aesthetic richness of the world, Barbara inspires her uniquely gifted staff in producing memorable environments expressed in a wide range of styles, always incorporating advances in materials, design and technology.

Meet the Business Owner

Barbara E.

Business Owner

Barbara graduated cum laude from the University of Chicago with a degree in Ancient History and Religion. A rigorous concentration in classical archaeology and antiquities paved the way for future exploration of the history of decorative arts and architecture. A long time professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), she is certified by the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ). She has extensively pursued further studies in the history of architecture and the decorative arts at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of the Arts, The Bard Graduate Center, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Winterthur Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The National Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.

Her work has been published extensively in such prestigious magazines as Architectural Digest and Period Homes. She has written the foreword