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The Interior Design Protection Council (IDPC) is organized and operating as a 501(c)6 non-profit business league, pursuing Federal IRS tax-exempt status.

OUR MISSION

The Interior Design Protection Council is a national, non-partisan interior design business league working to protect the rights of interior designers to practice; to actively influence legislation germane to protecting the livelihood of our members, to provide mechanisms for and/or encourage interior designers, interior decorators, and others involved with, ancillary to, interested in or affected by the interior design industry, to organize and participate in the political processes affecting their livelihoods and the interior design industry generally. We accomplish this through the presentation of information and trade statistics as well as education and communicating group opinions to government officials, agencies and bureaus, the design community, consumers, and the media.

OUR VISION

IDPC supports and promotes the need to retain diversity, vision, and creativity as integral components of the interior design profession.  We are passionately committed to preventing anti-competitive, unnecessary interior design and interior decorating regulation in the United States.  We will work vigorously to ensure that designers and decorators can continue to freely practice their profession without the fear of regulation that would severely limit or eliminate their practices.  Our coalition consists of interior designers, interior decorators, educators, students, and professionals from related industries, such as builders, architects, sub-contractors, vendors, home furnishings, upholsterers, window treatment fabricators, and artisans, as well as other collaborating organizations and agencies.

OUR VALUES

• We respect creativity, vision and critical thinking as essential ingredients for an interior design professional.
  

• We value the diversity of the existing interior design profession, regardless of how designers entered the field or what school they attended.  
  

• We reject the idea that a small handful of designers should be allowed to dictate how the majority practice or what they are allowed to call themselves.
  

• We support the right of the consumer to determine the level of experience and education they desire in an interior designer and reject the concept that the government should take these decisions out of their hands
  

• We uphold the United States Constitution’s provisions for citizens’ occupational freedom and 1st amendment right to free speech.
  

Interior Design Protection Council

Protecting interior designers’ rights to practice

Magnifying, illuminating, and exposing the interior design cartel

Educating the design community, legislators, students and consumers

IDPC

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