Bea Gardner

In The HYBRID DESIGNER Bea Gardner talks about her "wanna be" designer dream. How she came from a modest background with no degree, to become one of the most well-known Interior Designers in Columbus, OH in a field that mostly catered to the affluent. In The HYBRID DESIGNER she talks about her long and winding road with White's Fine Furniture, and her business relationship with Gordy, owner of the White's dynasty with whom she credits much of her success. During these years she also writes about how she struggled to find success while being a single mom to her two sons. As you turn the pages you will learn how two design competitions and one lucky lottery brought her full circle in the world of design in Columbus.

In The HYBRID DESIGNER Bea Gardner talks about her "wanna be" designer dream. How she came from a modest background with no degree, to become one of the most well-known Interior Designers in Columbus, OH in a field that mostly catered to the affluent. In The HYBRID DESIGNER she talks about her long and winding road with White's Fine Furniture, and her business relationship with Gordy, owner of the White's dynasty with whom she credits much of her success. During these years she also writes about how she struggled to find success while being a single mom to her two sons. As you turn the pages you will learn how two design competitions and one lucky lottery brought her full circle in the world of design in Columbus.

This book is about the lives of the lucky ones who are experiencing life during their 70s. Nobody likes being called a senior citizen or being pegged as a golden ager, old fogey, old-timer or an old fart and the author tries to put these monikers to rest in her book about septuagenarians. Hundreds of interviews are laced together to give the reader a glimpse of the lucky ones who are living between the ages of 70-80. If you are a septuagenarian you probably remember playing hopscotch and mumblety-peg and the landing on the moon. Gardner asked the persons interviewed what they feared the most and are they still working? Their answers to these questions are all over the place. If you are an early septuagenarian you would be considered a "baby boomer" and if you were born from the mid 20s to about 1945 you would carry the moniker of "silent generation". No matter who won the presidential election of 2016 the country would have a septuagenarian as POTUS. People interviewed could remember the words to the songs from the fifties but did not know the words to any current music. Most could remember psychedelic art but could not remember where they put their keys. Bea Gardner is sure you will enjoy each chapter in the book as much as she enjoyed writing about this milestone in her life and the lives of the people she interviewed.