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Gensler Art Gensler, co-founder of the San Francisco-based global architecture design and planning firm now called Gensler, died May 10 from an ongoing illness at home in Mill Valley, California. He was 85. In 1965, Art Gensler, his wife, Drue, and James Follett co-founded M. Arthur Gensler Jr. & Associates, Inc. in a one-room office with just one draftsman and $200 in the bank. It focused on work that fell below the radar screen for many architects space planning and interiors, the firm said in a statement. In the process, Gensler virtually created interior design as a new category of architectural practice, bringing it to a new level of professionalism.

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