Honorary Chair

Barbara Sallick

Barbara Sallick is the co-founder of Waterworks, a noted speaker in the global design community, and the author of several acclaimed books, including The Ultimate Bath (2022), The Perfect Kitchen (2020), The Perfect Bath (2016), and Waterworks: Inventing Bath Style (2001). She has also contributed to books by Phillip James Dodd and Don Ruggles, renowned experts in classical architecture and design.

She has served on the national board of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, and is on the board of the Decorators Club Education Fund which awards scholarships to high school student with demonstrated financial need, allowing them to enroll in pre-college courses at one of its five partner credited design schools.

Barbara served on the board and as Chair of the Wheelock College Board of Trustees where she received the President's Award for outstanding contributions and exemplary service. After Wheelock's merger with Boston University, she became chair of the Dean's Advisory Board of BU Wheelock College of Education and HumanDevelopment.

Barbara is also a board member at The TileWorks of Bucks County, the historic artisanal tile factory; the honorary chair of Rooms With A View, New Englands premier annual design event; and a former director of Sir John Soanes Museum Foundation. She received Cottages and Gardens' Innovator of the Year Award in 2015; House Beautiful named her one of its 2020 Visionaries.

She has served on the national board of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, and is on the board of the Decorators Club

Barbara has two sons-Peter, Waterworks CEO and Creative Director; and Dan, a founding partner of Subject Matter, a creative advocacy firm based in Washington D.C.-and five grandchildren. She lives in Southport, CT with her husband Robert and their dog Lulu.