Ray Booth’s career is the epitome of a full-circle moment. Raised in Huntsville, Alabama, he studied architecture at Auburn University, where he met Bobby McAlpine (a professor of his) and soon became one of the architect’s first interns. “Bobby is such a personable and approachable and humble creature. This talent ... has been fuel for me ... on how to do beautiful, poetic, emotionally evocative work,” Booth tells host Dennis Scully on the latest episode of The Business of Home Podcast .

After graduating, he made his way to New York and landed jobs with the designers John Saladino and Clodagh , where he learned valuable design skills. Ten years into Booth’s career, he moved back to Alabama in 1999 and became a partner at McAlpine’s firm, and has never looked back. “You sometimes fi

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