Designers Line Up to Audition for Architectural Digest

New York’s Design & Decoration Building is always bustling, but as the annual D&D Building Market Event kicked off this morning with a panel discussion on “The Business of Design,” hundreds of interior designers and decorators waited in a line that snaked down Third Avenue and around the corner. They were there to participate in Architectural Digest‘s version of American Idol: the Open Auditions. Since the first nationwide Open Auditions in October 2007, the magazine’s editorial panel has reviewed the work of more than 1,000 decorating professional and non-professionals, and if our estimate of this morning’s crowd was accurate, that number came close to doubling today.