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Kenneth Tilley Jnr

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Kenneth Tilley is an interior designer, yogi and furnishing store owner based in Hollywood, California.

He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1976 to an oil engineer father (Kenneth Tilley Snr) and homemaker mother (Jannett Tilley).

While his parents had traditional Southern tastes in home design, Kenneth developed a taste for urban, contemporary furniture.

He cites his time in as an international student ambassador (1993-1994), when he travelled extensively across the world as part of the People to People Student Ambassador Program, as a big influence on his metropolitan tastes.

In 1999, Tilley spent the summer in London studying Art History at Hampstead College.

Between 2001 – 2004 he attended the University of North Texas where he achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design, with a minor in Business Management.

It was during this time that he made his first television appearance as an interior designer on a student special of Trading Spaces.

In 2004, Ken graduated as a yogi under celebrity yoga guru Bikram Choudhury in Los Angeles, CA - an interest he first developed after visiting Japan in 1997.

Kenneth then planned to move to New York, but a major car accident left him unable to travel. He remained in Los Angeles teaching Bikram Yoga in his freetime, and honing his design craft by managing high-end design studios. He established [Kenneth Tilley Interiors] through which he styled movie sets and photoshoots, “staged” homes for realtors and providing customized design consultations to astute Hollywood clientele.

Ken has custom designed pieces for corporate clients such as Adidas and Pepsi.

In addition to his personal design services, in 2007 Ken launched his own online store of modern home furnishings: Modnest.com.

--Aliveroom (talk) 01:48, 8 February 2009 (UTC)