Libby Copeland, ASID

After 27 years experience and more than 16 ASID Design Excellence awards, Libby is well established in the Arizona interior design community.

Libby studied art in Kentucky and Chicago at Murray State University, the Chicago Art Institute and the American Academy of Art. Next came marriage to her husband Mike and their twin daughters, Regan and Becky. Mike’s work brought the family to Arizona in 1973. As Becky and Regan began to grow up, their mom decided to pursue her real love, interior design.

In 1980 Libby graduated from Scottsdale Community College with an Interior Design degree – number 1 in her class. Her first job was at the Design Studio at Barrows, where she remained for almost 12 years, establishing herself as an award-winning residential designer.

Libby excels in programming, space planning, furniture design, lighting design, has extensive product knowledge and possesses an innate color sense.

She passed the rigorous exam in 1983 to become certified by the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) and is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). She is a former president of the Arizona North chapter of ASID and has chaired numerous chapter committees. The chapter awarded her both the “Designer of Distinction” award and the “Medalist” award – the highest award given at the chapter level.

Libby has taught advanced interior design classes at the community college level. She established her own firm, Copeland Interiors, in 1992 where she specializes in residential design, with occasional commercial projects.

Roberta Ponzilacqua, Allied Member, ASID

One word to describe Roberta’s feel for design would be diverse.

Roberta was born in Verona but grew up in Milano, Italy. She attended and graduated from Istituto Tecnico Commerciale E. Mattei in Milano with a degree in Accounting and Bookkeeping.

She moved to Arizona at age 22, started a family and raised two daughters. Roberta has always had a passion for furniture and space planning, along with the ability to choose colors and materials. Her early attraction to numbers and their predictability was soon replaced by her long-time desire to find ways to express her creative side. This was the driving force that brought her back to school, and in the year 2000 Roberta graduated from Scottsdale Community College with a degree in Interior Design. While in school, she entered and won student design competitions.

For 6 years Roberta has been working with Libby Copeland, ASID one of her teachers at Phoenix College. In 2004, Roberta won an ASID Design Excellence award for an original furniture design.

Roberta strives to deliver only her best in design and service and looks at each project as an opportunity to listen and help realize clients’ needs, as well as an enriching and empowering tool for a continuous growing experience in her field. As a dual citizen, American and Italian, her goal is to embrace and implement diversity into her design work by keeping an open mind and sourcing ideas from both cultures.