Christiane Lemieux (born April 11, 1969) is an interior and household goods designer. She is the co-founder and CEO of The Inside, a digitally native, direct-to-consumer home furnishings company.^[1] Formerly, she was the founder and creative director of DwellStudio, a fashion and home design brand that was bought by Wayfair in 2013.^[2]

Lemieux was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and the Parsons School of Design in New York.

Lemieux began her career in fashion as a fabric assistant for Isaac Mizrahi.^[3] She then worked at the Gap as an assistant designer of women's woven clothing, fabric design, development and merchandising. She took a position as design director with Portico, a New York-based home company. Lemieux developed furniture, home accessories, gift items, bed linens and bath products for the company.^[4]

Lemieux left Portico to launch Dwell Home Furnishings in 1999,^[5] introducing a collection of bedding and textiles.^[6] The company has since expanded to include custom upholstered furniture,^[7] tabletop, baby, children's furniture,^[8] gift and travel items.^[4]

Lemieux launched DwellStudio for Target in January 2008.^[3]

In March 2011, Lemieux published her first book,Undecorate, The No-Rules Approach to Interior Design, in 2011.^[9]

In June 2012, DwellStudio opened its a store in SoHo, New York^[10] followed by an in-store boutique at Los Angeles.

In 2012, Lemieux was interviewed for the show Apartment Therapy,^[11] and in 2013 LeMieux' apartment was featured in the Lifestyle section of The Telegraph.^[12]

In 2014, Lemieux was named Executive Creative Director of Wayfair.^[13]

In 2015, Lemieux appeared as a contest judge on the television show Ellen's Design Challenge.^[14][15]

In 2018, Lemieux founded digitally native, direct-to-consumer home furnishings company The Inside, alongside co-founder Britt Bunn.^[16]