Dani Arps 

Arps is an interior designer who bootstrapped her way to designing office spaces for top startup companies throughout NYC. She has worked with the Founders and CEO’s from buzzy startups like Daily Harvest, SeatGeek, Codecademy, and General Assembly; to create over 250K sqft of striking and of the moment designs that cater to their unique needs. 

Dani has over 11 years of design experience, opening her eponymous firm Dani Arps LLC in 2014. Arps’ quickly gained recognition, receiving industry awards throughout her career. She was named by top design publication, House Beautiful, as 2019’s ‘Next Wave Interior Designer’ and awarded as 2017’s ‘Star on the Rise’ by the renowned Decoration and Design Building. Arps also had the honor of being chosen as part of Curbed ‘Young Guns’ class of 2016. 

In 2019, Dani was named as a ‘Best of NeoCon’ Gold winner for her table design, the ‘Epono’, for NuCraft. Neocon is the premier furniture fair and design institution for the commercial design industry with over 500 companies and 50,000 design professionals taking part. Having a passion and talent for furniture design, Dani custom designs a majority of furniture pieces for her projects and is currently looking forward to launching her own line with Industry West 2021.

Dani has been prominently featured in many publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, and Interior Design Magazine. She also partnered with Sotheby’s to curate an exhibit: mixing modern craft with inspired antiques. 

Dani has shared her design experience and knowledge lecturing at design schools of note such as Pratt, Parsons, FIT and UDEM University in Monterrey Mexico.