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Questions
?

Our company pursues

all design styles

like contemporary,

traditional, eclectic, and
BY AKLILE TSIGE
romantic.

Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and
more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone
who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such projects. Interior design is a multifaceted
profession that includes conceptual development, space planning, site inspections, programming, and
research, communicating with the stakeholders of a project, construction management, and execution
of the design, according to Wikipedia. More appealing to women, this field of profession has remained
uncommon in Ethiopia, but few industrious women are coming to the forefront.

Born and grew up in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Samrawit shiferaw has been in love with
aesthetics and design since childhood. Samrawit has completed her higher education in Architecture at
Addis College, and has further taken a six –month training in designing and earned a certificate from
England. Sheis currently unleashingher entrepreneurial potential in interior design by establishing Zion
Interior Design and Finishing Works in partnership with Chernet Teka who used to do only finishing
works before he joined Samrawit. The 3-year old company now seems to be stretching its wings across
other countries. ABN Editor-in-Chief, Aklile Tsige presents 10 questions to company General Manager,
Samrawit while having coffee at Lubanja Café and Restaurant located nearby the Millennium Hall.

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