About

Kemble Interiors, Inc. was founded in 1982 on Royal Palm Way in Palm Beach, Florida by Mimi McMakin and Brooke Huttig.  A few years later they bought the current building where there is currently a retail store along with the design business.

"Palm Beach is timeless, it has always been beautiful, clean, full of flowers and Southern friendliness.  Our family has been here for more than 120 years."  - Mimi McMakin

"We're known for making comfortable, easy-to-live-in houses with a touch of whimsy.  There will always be something a little out of the ordinary to catch your eye."  - Brooke Huttig

Michael Boodro says, Kemble Interiors "incorporates the serendipitous and the sentimental without losing clarity or strength."

Celerie Kemble's childhood was in many ways a design tutorial spent in construction sites, antique stores, and in the unique homes designed by her mother, Mimi McMakin.  After concentrating in English Literature she graduated from Harvard and quickly succumbed to what she calls a compulsion for design and home improvement.  For 12 years she has been working as a much publicized residential and commercial interior designer based out of New York City.  The office now boasts six designers and an influx of interns working with clients in The Dominican Republic, Puglia Italy, Texas, Amagansett, Bridgehampton, and Manhattan.

"In life as in design, it is not perfection you should be after.  There's beauty in the faded and worn, the well loved, and the sentimental...After all, life has seams. Your home should be like a loosely woven fabric of desires, memories, practical, notions, and even compromises."  - Celerie Kemble