Corey Damen Jenkins fashions rooms for exuberant living—tantalizing colors, playful patterns, a magpie mélange. “I would define my design philosophy as new maximalist: a bold, Continental mix of elegance and modernity,” says the Detroit native. “My ultimate goal is to ensure that my clients’ homes are always classic, livable, and without an expiration date.” Damen Jenkins’s own success story is made for television: He landed his first project after going door-to-door in Michigan during the recession of 2009 (“I literally knocked on 779 doors in the dead of winter”). Upon posting the completed photos to his website, he was recruited by HGTV, where audiences voted him winner of the network’s design competition series. His expansive body of work will soon be celebrated in the monograph Design Remix: A New Spin on Traditional Rooms, to be published by Rizzoli this spring. coreydamenjenkins.com
