Bob Williams: Nervous breakdown over identity prompted pivot to design school
Bob Williams · Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams · Mar 28, 2022 · at 10:16
Bob Williams, co-founder of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, discusses his struggle with his sexual identity in the late 1970s and how it led to his career in design.
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“I remember after graduating high school and going off to college, basically having a nervous breakdown. And Being hospitalized for a week because of the stress of all this, and that was tough, but that was also a time when I looked at my life and it's like, all right, I need to make some changes, and that's when I started looking for schools that were primarily design schools.”
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