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This March, the New York School of Interior Design held its annual gala—a yearly chance to see your favorite industry stars in formal attire—at The University Club in midtown Manhattan. The venue, a grand Beaux Arts mansion, was originally built in 1899. That evening, guests feted a design institution only a handful of decades younger: McMillen, the venerable New York firm founded 100 years ago.
McMillen’s president, Ann Pyne—only the third to lead the firm—gave a speech that looked back philosophically on a full century in business. The company, she pointed out, has “decorated for clients who grew up without electricity or an automobile.”

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