Hands-on designer helps shepherd in the next design generation
Throughout her 25-year design career, Siobhan Daggett-Terenzi has found that giving clients a personalized experience is the key to success. After 12 years as the senior designer at a local kitchen dealer where there wasn’t enough time to be hands-on with clients, Daggett-Terenzi started Branford, CT-based Cucina Design in 2004. On her own, she has been able to work one-on-one with clients providing individual, specialized attention. This customized approach at her boutique design firm often extends past kitchen cabinet design into excursions to granite yards, tile companies and appliance stores. As she caters to individualized designs, she has made it a point to step outside of her comfort zones into such areas as Midcentury Modern, popular with the millennial population.
Additionally, Daggett-Terenzi is also active in bringing the next generation of designers into the industry. What began as a project with a local high school design teacher, interested in getting kids local apprenticeships, has led Daggett-Terenzi into mentoring three interior and kitchen design students from nearby University of New Haven. “We’re always trying to bring new blood into the industry,” she stresses, “to spark an interest in kitchen design.”
