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Enter the rooms of Bates Interiors… 
Elegant, poised and inventive interior design.

“Making clients’ dreams their reality is what interior design is all about,” Bates says. She defines her process in four steps: Listen. Look. Feel. Design. “Hear what people want, and you can create it for them.”

Bates does not create staged, static vignettes. Her designs are vibrant reflections of the client’s personality and life. Clients come to her with families, art collections, dogs, and ideas; confident she will refine a fresh and tasteful vision from those materials. Her interior design tells an ongoing story of the lives that inhabit the rooms.

Georgia Bates resides in Phoenix, Arizona and works nationally and internationally. Her website can be found at batesinteriors.net

phoenix and scottsdale arizona interior design firm, Bates Interiors, provides custom interior design services for residential and commercial projects in a broad range of styles and sensibilities.

Bates Interiors was established by its owner and principal interior designer, Georgia Bates, in 1989. this arizona interior designer’s mid-western upbringing is evident in her sensitivities to organic materials, colors and forms. as a local phoenix interior designer, Georgia has been able to bring these natural qualities to southwest design.

Bates Interiors serves clients throughout the united states with their residential interior design and commercial interior design needs. although located in Central Phoenix, Arizona, the firm is involved with more than local phoenix interior design. this Arizona interior design firm is accomplished in a broad range of interior design styles and is accustomed to providing a complete range of interior design services.

Bates Interiors has been recognized for its significant talents in many publications and books on interior design. Georgia has won numerous national awards for her work from professional design organizations, publications and peers. Georgia is the sole designer in this arizona interior design firm, with specific support personnel in business administration, purchasing/installation coordination and cadd/technical support.

the firm has been recognized for its significant talents in such publications as the “new york times”, “interior design magazine”, “metropolitan home magazine”, “house beautiful magazine”, as well as being regularly featured in regional publications including “arizona foothills magazine”, “phoenix magazine”, and “phoenix home & garden magazine”. her work has also been published in numerous books on interior design. Georgia has won numerous national awards for her work from professional design organizations, publications and peers.

“truth in materials” was a commandment of american architect frank lloyd wright. this concept of honest and organic design has become the cornerstone of the creative philosophy for Bates Interiors. growing up in the grassy plains and rolling hills of the prairie midwestern states, Georgia came to her profession with a love of nature, an admiration for fine craft, and an appreciation for great architecture and design.

for Bates Interiors, the best outcome of inspired and relevant interior design can be characterized by a “fusing” of architectural context, geographical/cultural influence, and the client’s own style and color sensibilities. a careful melding of these elements provides for an original, personal and thoughtful design aesthetic in which to live. creating these designs is the mission of Bates Interiors.

built in 1920, the historic Bates Interiors studio is located in the Coronado Historic District, in the heart of Phoenix’s arts district. the building was re-designed in a collaborative process between Georgia and architect wendell burnette. in response to the bold design of the building, the studio has been published broadly, in such periodicals as architecture magazine, the new york times magazine, design & architecture magazine and objekt magazine. although the studio building is considered historic in its style, its additional importance and relevance is in its embodiment of Georgia’s philosophy of truth in materials, and in Georgia’s quest to design within 
a space that is thematically passive, simple, well lighted, and timeless in its form.

although many interior designers might be intimidated by the idea of building a design studio that is architecturally serious and progressive, Georgia was undeterred. as a project architect, Georgia sought out arizona architect wendell burnette, who was a former fellow in the frank lloyd school of architecture, as well as a long time associate of famed arizona architect will bruder. the spirited design collaboration between wendell and david produced a very subdued architectural and interiors’ statement, that is simultaneously both passive and emotive. design details in the building are subtle in nature, while the experience of spatial juxtapositions and the 
building’s materiality are exhilarating. the interiors are bathed in light, and the building provides an inspiring environment for all of Bates’ visitors and staff.

the building represents to Georgia, the most ideal fusion of design talents between architect and interior designer. although this sort of successful design collaboration is rare, Georgia saw the design of the studio as an opportunity for such collaboration and seized upon it. as a client, Georgia understood that she would be able to participate in a process, from which interior designers are often discouraged. as the architect’s “client”, Georgia realized that she could play an expanded role in the development and detail of the project, in a more meaningful way than simply as the interior designer. the design result of this collaborative dynamic is as beautiful 
as it is rare. the blending of abilities and tastes between Georgia and wendell burnette created an architectural hybrid like no other.

the studio is by appointment only, located just south of Thomas Rd and east of 7th Street in historic Central Phoenix.

Bates Interiors
7034 east first avenue
Phoenix Arizona 85006
telephone 480.425.7545
facsimile 480.425.7544

Georgia Bates, ASID 
Designer/Owner
georgia@batesinteriors.net

Renee O’Donnell, Member of ASID

Interior Designer

602.281.2806

renee@batesinteriors.net

Brian Wieberg
CADD/Technical Support
Project Assistant to Designer
brianw@batesinteriors.net

Marlene Willson
Business/Financial Administration
marlenew@batesinteriors.net

Ryan Vink
Assistant to Designer
ryanv@batesinteriors.net

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