Alex Tabarrok takes aim at the American Society of Interior Designers:
As Carpenter and Ross point out in an excellent article in Regulation from which I have drawn:
In more than 30 years of advocating for regulation, the ASID and its ilk have yet to identify a single documented incident resulting in harm to anyone from the unlicensed practice of interior design.
They clearly haven’t been very imaginative, in that case.
Exempli gratia: John Teall of Flux Interiors, being English, is, I believe, unlicensed in the US. Yet he inflicted this house on Roland Emmerich, and, quite possibly as a direct result, Roland Emmerich inflicted 10,000 BC onto an unsuspecting mass public.
As the ASID says:
Every decision an interior designer makes in one way or another affects the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
Regulate UK interior designers! Regulate them now!
(HT: Gumby)