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As part of our practice, we sometimes manage aspects of other firm's interior design projects.
The issue has arisen numerous times that the interior design firms fail to actually design a furnishing item, providing instead a general description of size and finish and a catalog cut of another furnishing, more often than not of a completely different type (detail on a piece of hardware to be turned into a mirror frame, for example) or at least completely different proportions. This puts the fabricator in the position of actually having to design the furnishing item, without getting paid for that work, while the designer is being paid for it and not doing it.
I have been looking for some language that clearly defines what information is required for a detail drawing of this type. There is plenty available concerning what shop drawings aren't, but not a lot that I could find clarifying what design drawings are.
Anybody know where I can quickly get ahold of such language?
Thanks!
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Kate Svoboda-Spanbock AIA, CID
Principal
HERE Design and Architecture
Los Angeles CA
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