We are constantly inspired by designers and enjoy being a part of the evolving world of design. Some have influenced the way people think by making interiors more accessible, others were selected because they are iconic and a source of inspiration for many, and others yet because of the way they challenge and inspire through their media presence… So, we selected the best interior designers from New York City that we feel have made an impression on the design industry in a big way.
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1. Accentuations by Design
Establishing design centres that are entirely centred on custom design, they help turn visions into handcrafted custom furniture for their clients across multiple cultural spheres. From traditional to transitional, modern to industrial, they are reinventing the interior design process by spearheading it from the start.
2. Adam Cassino Design
A New York City native who is passionate about all things design, Adam is trained in several interconnected fields that lend him to be a well-rounded designer and problem solver. Before founding Adam Cassino Design, he honed his skills under renowned interior designers Kenneth Alpert and Andrew Petronio of KA Design Group, working on highly distinguished properties in some of the most prestigious locations.
3. Adele Schachner Arch + Interiors Design Group
Adele Rakower Interiors is a boutique design firm led by Adele Rakower, Principal Architect, and is based in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honours at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City, and being recognized for her astounding talent and vision, Adele began her career working in the Brooklyn high-end residential market, and commercial school buildings and structures.
4. Amy Lau Design
Founded in 2001, Amy Lau Design creates interiors known for their warmth, expressiveness and impeccable attention to detail. Amy has a reverence for the inherent beauty of natural materials, and landscapes, and thoughtfully incorporates elements of each into every project. Lauded by Architectural Digest for her “All-encompassing vision of inspired, artful living that elevates mere finesse into the realm of pure magic,” Amy’s aesthetic embraces both art and design, where each personalized space is enlivened with dynamic mixes of vintage and contemporary pieces and site-specific commissions.
5. Anastasios Gliatis
Anastasios Interiors is a full-service interior design firm based in New York City. Founded by Anastasios Gliatis, Anastasios Interiors provides a superior design experience to discerning clients who have an appreciation for high-class design and style. Trained in architecture at the New York Institute of Technology, easily started to work with award-winning design and architecture firms gaining great experience.
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Charla Bar Chair by LUXXU
6. Arthur Casas
From the object to the landscape, inside out, the creative process of Studio Arthur Casas is intimately connected to a horizontal scale, where the main concern is the dialogue in the conception of programs that can be as diverse as a chair or an entire neighborhood, influenced by a contemporary design spirit that is Brazilian but also cosmopolitan.
7. Bella Mancini Design
This company is one of the Top Residential Interior Design firms based in New York City. They specialize in highly customized and hands-on design, creating modern high-end spaces. Allying what is a contemporary design and old traditions, Bella Mancini Design has everything to be a Top Interior Designer.
8. Beth Donner Design
Beth Donner Design is a creative, versatile and sophisticated interior design firm on Long Island that creates amazing, original and beautiful spaces. The firm’s signature designs are whimsical, often edgy, always forward-driven and full of rich texture, varied materials and exquisite detail. Beth Donner puts her own vision and unique design imprint on every project.
9. BG Studio International
BG Studio International is an award-winning, boutique design firm specializing in upscale hospitality, multi-family, cruise ship and yacht design and commercial interiors. President and founder, Francesca Bucci bring 25 + years of experience, incorporating diverse influences with the best practices of design and construction and an ability to manage multi-tiered projects throughout North America and Europe.
10. Bohn Architecture + Design
Luxury Home Interiors are one of Bohn Architecture + Design’s specialities. The award-winning design firm has been creating both commercial and residential design projects for over 20 years. They count on some of the best interior designers out there, and with Warren Bohn and Kelly Woodruff as principals, they have completed truly inspiring private residences, restaurants, retail stores, hotels, public lobbies, offices, health clubs, salons and fashion showrooms for clients who are looking to communicate a distinctive message.
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Diamond Center Table by Boca do Lobo
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11. Bruce Bierman Design
Bruce Bierman Design Inc. specializes in residential and commercial interior design. Trained in architecture as well as fine arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, Bruce Bierman brings a unique perspective to each of his design projects, combining practical knowledge with a highly refined aesthetic.
12. Carlyle Designs
Carlyle Designs was founded in 2007 by Jordan Carlyle and has become synonymous with the designer’s luxurious aesthetic as well as his meticulous attention to detail. An eclectic mix of elegant, clean lines and sleek, monochrome schemes with pops of rich colour, bespoke bronze and gold detailing mixed with antique pieces — Carlyle interweaves old and new worlds for a decidedly modern finish.
13. Cartier
Cartier is one of the world’s leading luxury goods companies. The company designs manufactures and distributes jewellery, watches, fragrance, pens, lighters, silver, and crystal. The House of Cartier is identified with quality, prestige, and history, and has served as a crown jeweller to 19 royal houses.
14. Cenk Fikri
Headquartered in New York, Cenk Fikri Inc. is a full-service hospitality design & consultancy studio. The owner, Cenk Fikri, is an absolute passion for hospitality projects with all the boldest characteristics you can imagine. He can produce that NYC feels of entertaining culture and the finest extravagance in every project, and the major part of the projects are customized which means that you’ll always have a uniqueness in every detail. In the Playboy project that it’s shown we can capture that designer’s goal was very simple – to replicate the lifestyle associated with Playboy in his design.
15. Centra Ruddy
Established in 1987, CetraRuddy is an award-winning global architecture, planning and interior design firm driven by design excellence and the creation of one-of-a-kind experiences. For three decades, the firm has led with a guiding principle that architecture and design must engage context and enrich the human spirit.
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Navarra Center Table by Boca do Lobo
16. Champalimaud Design
Champalimaud Design has partnered with clients to create some of the world’s most distinctive properties, transforming context and heritage into compelling stories and unparalleled experiences.
17. Dan Fink
Dan Fink Studio is a New-York based interior design studio with a broad interest in history, art, and new American living. The studio brings to their work a spirit that is at once classic, modern, and heartfelt, as they reinvent the traditional interior design process for their 21st-century clients.
18. DDC Minotti
Minotti is an Italian company with a solid reputation at an international level as an excellent expression of “Made in Italy” in the field of contemporary furniture design and ambassador of a classic-modern lifestyle in the residential and hospitality segments.
19. Drake/Anderson
Drake and Anderson bring their respective takes on glamour, curation, and elegance to bear in a range of luxurious residential and commercial projects. Drake is widely regarded as one of the first designers to popularize Modernism in interior design, beginning in the 1980s. He is known for his fearless approach to colour as well as his fashion-conscious sensibility. Anderson is lauded for his layered approach to interiors and the confidence with which he juxtaposes a variety of historical periods from the design continuum.
20. David Kleinberg
David Kleinberg Design Associates has been an internationally recognized leader in full-service interior design and architectural renovation for twenty years. The firm has a staff of twenty full-time employees and is revered for its highly curated and nuanced interiors with a focus on expertly achieved detail and unparalleled client services.
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Wave Center Table by Boca do Lobo
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21. Empire Office
A family-owned company, Empire Office provides coast-to-coast coverage with offices and showrooms in New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Alabama and Pennsylvania as well as three Florida cities, and an established network of national installers and warehouses across the country.
22. EvensonBest
EvensonBest is one of the top ten largest volume contract furniture dealerships in North America, with an install base of completed projects totalling more than $3 billion. Our staff of more than 200 experienced professionals gives you access to experts in multiple market sectors and geographic regions.
23. FORM Architecture + Interiors
FORM Architecture + Interiors have a passion for residential design and architecture drawing from a vast understanding of many sensibilities. They have a unique ability to listen and express our client’s thoughts in built form. Founding Partners Brent Leonard and Sean Webb R.A. began FORMARCH in 1998 and with their team have successfully designed, built, restored and renovated homes and structures throughout North America. One of their many goals is to make the process of creating and building a new home as seamless and as enjoyable as possible, bringing their team’s combined technical expertise, material knowledge, intuition and service to the table. They have built homes in many sensitive environments and have an understanding of the appropriate materiality, building method and approval process.
24. Fox-Nahem Associates
Each project of Joe Nahem brings out another aspect of his talented eye. His design signature lies in the ability, from the first meeting on, to dig deep into his client’s minds, to realize their ideas, needs, and individual tastes. The results are luxuriously comfortable, elegant, and livable homes for active families: spaces that reflect the people who dwell in them.
25. Groves and Co
Groves and Co’s style of layered modernism combines a singular, refined aesthetic with luxurious materials and finishes—bringing together the best of design, comfort and style infused with warmth and ease.
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Supernova Chandelier by Boca do Lobo
26. Hongkun USA
Hongkun USA is the US subsidiary of Hongkun Group, a global real estate investment, development and management holding company headquartered in Beijing. Hongkun Group holds residential, commercial, healthcare, tourism and cultural properties in excess of $7 billion around the world. Since its establishment in 2002, Hongkun’s portfolio has achieved continuous growth by expanding its scale of operations across a diverse range of asset classes and innovatively building its platform scope, adding comprehensive service offerings that enhance the value of its core business: community-focused real estate development.
27. Ingrao Inc.
Anthony Ingrao and Randy Kemper are the principals of Ingrao Inc., an internationally recognized design and architecture firm focused on both residential and commercial projects. The company, established in 1982, is comprised of 36 interior designers and architects and is based in New York City.
28. J’adore Design
J’adore Interior Design is a Woman Owned Small Business started in 2007 by Rosalind Rawls. She started in real estate in 1999 with a passion for residential design. Real estate gave her a start by designing interiors and assisting clients with colours, furniture placement and choosing interior materials for remodels and new constructions.
29. Jacobson Home
New York-based Jacobson Home is a residential interior design firm that works with clients locally and across the country!
30. James Rixner
James’ work always combines cues from the home’s architecture with his own innate flair. He uses chic Mid-Century furniture and carefully selected antiques along with up-to-the-minute contemporary pieces to create an unmistakable style. His work displays a Zen-like serenity with a welcoming mood and just the right amount of drama. James strives to never employ a rubber stamp approach and instead to reflect both the client’s needs and his own developed taste. In the end, James’ goal is to create casually elegant rooms that are timeless, comfortable and highly livable.
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Empire Round Dining Table by Boca do Lobo
31. Jeffrey Beers International
Based in New York, but with global reach, Jeffrey Beers International is a full-service studio that specializes in architecture, design, and planning from hotel hospitality to resorts, from restaurants to residential. We pair the precision of architecture with the sensuality of form. We bring emotion to modernism.
32. Jonathan Adler
Jonathan Adler is a potter, designer and author. He owns a design company that’s dedicated to bringing “grooviness to your home” with pottery, furniture, rugs, stationary, etc. Creating lavish interiors for venues including the Parker Palm Springs Hotel and Planet Hollywood Las Vegas. Adler launched his first ceramic collection in 1993 at Barneys New York, and five years later he expanded into home furnishings, opening his first namesake boutique in Manhattan. Adler’s inspirations have come from Mid-century modern, art and global pop culture.
33. Kelly Behun Studio
Kelly Behun Studio is an interior design firm based in New York City that specializes in the design of interiors, furniture and decorative accessories. Founded by Kelly Behun, the Studio provides a uniquely hands-on approach to producing customized environments perfectly tailored to each client’s needs. Clients have assured a highly personal experience with an emphasis on collaboration and individualized service. Considered an interior designer with the eye of a gallerist, Kelly’s projects utilize everything from bespoke furnishings and unique designer pieces to offbeat accents and inexpensive vintage finds.
34. Ken Fulk
Ken Fulk is a designer of experiences large and small. He is renowned for his layered interiors, high-concept hospitality brands and unforgettable parties. The Virginia-born designer has spent the last 25 years developing a business by elevating the daily lives of his clients, not only designing their homes, jets, restaurants and hotels but also creatively directing birthdays, weddings, dinners, anniversaries and family getaways.
35. Kravitz Design
Kravitz Design is a conceptual creative studio founded by Lenny Kravitz in 2003. With a modern sensibility and a focus on interiors, industrial design, branding and graphic design, the work of Kravitz Design always conveys a soulful elegance through a natural, relaxed sense of style.
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D. Dinis Fragmented Mirror by Boca do Lobo
36. Nourison Industries
At Nourison, they believe your home is a place where self-expression and creativity run free. With over 40 years of experience in rug and home accents design, their impressive selection helps you transform your home into your oasis. Nourison oversees nearly every aspect of the manufacturing process – from design concept to product creation – to ensure quality no matter what your budget.
37. Ocean Blu
Ocean Blu Design‘s principal interior designer, Amy Kang has been working for many years with clients building luxury modern coastal lifestyle designs for their homes and investment properties. Her designs are found across the east coast — throughout New York‘s own Hamptons and Gold Coast towns of Long Island to Connecticut, West Palm Beach and Key West, Florida. By taking her knowledge of designing and renovating homes and investment properties, Amy and her team are passionate about designing and consulting for her clients. Ocean Blu Design‘s team of professional interior designers is available for consultations.
38. Ovadia Design Group
Ovadia Design Group is an award-winning architectural interior design company specializing in high-end residential and commercial designs. Their team embodies a trifecta of passionate, highly-creative and approachable talent with a wealth of experience working for top firms collectively around the nation.
39. Pembrooke & Ives
Pembrooke & Ives knows great design can change lives. They are adept at producing visionary concepts and executing them to the power of 10. The end result is a space you never dreamt possible, with attention to detail and a level of comfort, character, and style that exceeds expectations.
40. Rock Solid Builders
As a boutique development company, its focus has been to deliver value through a combination of rigorous analysis, hands-on management, and innovative design. They explore opportunities and redefine possibilities through a thoughtful planning and design process. A commitment to excellence is reflected in every project.
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Colombia Armchair by BRABBU
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41. Rockwell Group
Founded in New York in 1984 by one of the top interior designers and architects David Rockwell, the Rockwell Group creates the most extraordinary designs all around the world. The group of over 250 people with offices in New York, Madrid and Shanghai specializes in a wide array of work from luxury hospitality, cultural, and healthcare projects, to educational, product, and set design.
42. Roman and Williams
Roman and Williams were founded by Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer in 2002 as a multidisciplinary architecture and design studio focused on creating buildings and interiors rooted in a modern paradigm of craftsmanship and history.
43. S.R. Grambel
S R Gambrel Inc was founded by Steven Gambrel in 1996. Steven Gambrel is a well-known interior designer famous for specialising in both residential and commercial design, as well as developing custom products and furnishings. Steven Gambrel has been recognised for his endless dedication to creating highly customised interiors and architectural details for each project, developing timeless and comfortable homes.
44. SHVO
SHVO is a real estate development and investment firm built on the vision of founder and CEO, Michael Shvo, to create culture-defining experiences in iconic properties. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, SHVO owns and operates a national portfolio with more than $8 billion in assets under management with more than 4.5 million square feet across industry sectors, including commercial office and retail, hospitality, and luxury residential assets.
45. Stonehill & Taylor Architects
Stonehill Taylor is a hospitality-focused architecture and interior design firm, which takes a contextual approach to design destinations. Stonehill Taylor-designed hotels are inspired and distinct reflections on each project’s location, space, history, and culture.
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Hera Round I Suspension Lamp by Boca do Lobo
46. Studio 1200
Studio 1200 is an award-winning architect and interior design firm.
47. Studio Sofield
Studio Sofield is an integrative New York-based design firm dedicated to multiple disciplines, creative relationships with clients and productive collaborations with artisans and artists. Sofield’s work is characterized by a holistic approach to design that encompasses the requirements of luxury living.
48. Ted Moudis Associates
Ted Moudis Associates believe that our corporate responsibility extends beyond the projects we work on; they strive to leave a lasting positive impact on our community at large. As an organization and as individuals, they value integrity, community, diversity, and philanthropy. This philosophy is built into their DNA and permeates our organization. Ted Moudis Associates strives to live these values and effect positive change in the communities where they work and live.
49. Unlimited Furniture Group
Unlimited Furniture carries on its legacy as one of the most sought-after furniture brands in the industry for almost two decades. They are purveyors of exclusive luxury furniture providing exceptional designs and services and creating custom interiors.
50. Vanessa Deleon Associates
Vanessa DeLeon Associates is an award-winning Interior Design Firm that specializes in residential, commercial, and hospitality interior design. They have a strong commitment to serving our clients with quality work from concept to completion.