In Business of Home ’s series Shop Talk , we chat with owners of home furnishings stores across the country to hear about their hard-won lessons and challenges, big and small. This week, we spoke with Montana-based interior designer Susan Weiss, principal of Emerson Baile y, which has retail showrooms in Bozeman, Denver, and Nyhamnsläge, Sweden.

Emerson Bailey is named for Weiss’s architect father, who raised her in Bozeman to seek out and appreciate beautiful things, and to dream big. After starting her career and having her first child in Los Angeles, she moved to Denver in the 1990s, where she launched her own firm and the first gallery. European antiques, particularly from Sweden, became and remain her specialty, and she ultimately went international with the business, securing

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