While earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in interior architecture from Columbia College Chicago, Mercia worked as a realtor, freelance interior designer, nightlife promoter and bartender. Growing tired of being a jack-of-all-trades, and fully immersed in one of the country’s richest architectural cities, she joined slick+designusa in Chicago, immediately enhancing her design portfolio.

As a trained dancer, Mercia envisions spaces abstractly, using movement and measure to interpret space. Dance like design is a craft of passion--passion for material, space, movement, light, and technique. Space becomes atmosphere; atmosphere becomes experience.

Mercia strives to tailor each client’s vision, incorporating trends, technology and timeless design into every venture, whether it be a bar and restaurant, nightclub, cocktail lounge, private residence, boutique hotel or luxury yacht.