Based in New York City’s undisputed creative hub, many Brooklyn interior designers have mastered the art of renovating the borough’s historic townhouses—respecting and celebrating their original details while reorganizing layouts and introducing contemporary elements to make them appropriate for modern living. These same designers and their teams also carry this considered approach to projects outside of the Big Apple, combining a home’s context with their clients’ needs and tastes to create residences that marry sophistication with comfort and carry a distinctive aesthetic each time. Whether you’re looking to overhaul a Fort Greene brownstone, refresh a city pied-à-terre, or fully gut-renovate a Long Island summer home, the following Brooklyn-based interior design studios listed on the AD PRO Directory each offer a unique style and sensibility.
Workstead
AD100 studio Workstead creates residences, hospitality destinations, and real estate developments, and its Brooklyn-based building and interiors practice champions genuine connections to history and landscape. A human-centered approach to the design process also ensures that projects possess an empathy and functionality that surpass expectations and stand the test of time.
Workstead equally prioritizes innovation, historic continuum, placemaking, and client service. The firm creates spaces that are startling in form and material, while engaging in dialogue with site-specific and wide-ranging cultural traditions that engender comfort among users and generation-spanning stewardship among owners. The firm’s lighting studio in Hudson, New York, also takes a threefold approach to design excellence through its product line, as well as custom works.
Jesse Parris-Lamb
Amanda Jesse and Whitney Parris-Lamb founded their design firm Jesse Parris-Lamb (JPL) in 2014. Since then, JPL has grown to include an expert team of Brooklyn interior designers who skillfully manage every step of the interior design process, providing clients a full-service experience. Their work encompasses all aspects of design, from interior architecture to decoration.
With keen attention to scale, proportion and the way bodies move through space, the studio customizes interiors to meet both the physical and aesthetic needs of its clients. Alongside restored vintage finds, every project features bespoke items developed with a growing network of independent makers. JPL is known for employing a lively but elegant sense of color and pattern to create warm, layered spaces suitable for modern living.
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Leyden Lewis Design Studio
Leyden Lewis Design Studio offers a wide range of design services, including residential, commercial, and real estate interior design and decoration. The studio provides fine art advisory, consultation, and curation for private and public collections and institutions, and also works closely with brands on product development, store and pop-up design, and product and brand experiential design.
Trained and now teaching in New York City, founder and creative director Leyden Lewis has a design aesthetic rooted in a rich classical modernism, coupled with ancient traditions and methodologies. He operates from a deep interest in art and the history of design to tell new and modern stories. The studio’s design practice engages with the cultures of the past and present, and allows for a fluid integration between art, architecture, and design. Lewis is a Kips Bay Decorator Show House alumnus, and a founding member of the Black Artists and Designers Guild.
Chused & Co
After 20 years of roles as a fashion designer, stylist, editor, and buyer, Jenna Chused established her Brooklyn-based interior design firm Chused & Co in 2015. Chused’s unique creative background translates to a distinct awareness of color, pattern, and texture. She believes color should not be isolated in an interior, but used with tonality and hue changes to highlight and ultimately create a calm flow throughout the space. By layering her rooms with unique vintage pieces, they become richly evolved spaces that show an acquired eclecticism.
Chused & Co is a comprehensive firm that handles projects from the construction and architectural phases straight through to the interiors, working on and accepting projects worldwide. Whether the task is appreciating historical details while bringing in modernity, or creating warmth in an otherwise cold modern space, the common goal is to straddle the spectrum and create a bridge between two worlds. Overall, Chused sets out to develop unpretentious yet luxury interiors that incorporate clever details and give thought to how its inhabitants live.
Olivia Song Design
Since 2007, Olivia Song Design has created remarkable visual moments for its clients. The studio works across hospitality, commercial, residential, and retail sectors, discreetly layering function into each project based on needs. Whether supporting founders opening their first location or C-suite executives looking to scale for expansion, the team is able to fine-tune operational design and build-out requirements for unique workspaces.
For select homeowners who are patrons of collectible design and exquisite architecture, Olivia Song Design aims to execute striking and unique residential interiors, while through collaborations with brands, the studio hopes to share its point of view with a wider design audience. “I’m a designer, not an artist, so the project isn’t about me and what I want; I am trying to give clients the best of what they want,” says Olivia Song, the office’s founder and creative director.
Emma Beryl
The key to Emma Beryl’s design process is juxtaposition: Balancing the masculine and feminine, finding the right balance between old and new, and combining unexpected materials. By listening to clients’ needs and wants—and getting a deep understanding of the styles, colors, and objects that excite them—principal designer Emma Kemper is able to develop a design that will best represent them and their lifestyle.
With residential and hospitality projects across the country, including New York, California, Texas, and New Orleans, the studio’s work spans from facelifts to large-scale renovations. No matter the location or scope, the goal is always to create an elevated space that users won't want to leave.
Chango & Co.
Chango & Co. is a Brooklyn-based residential design studio founded by creative director Susana Simonpietri. Self-described as easy-going, clean, and welcoming, Chango & Co. strives to ensure that each home the firm works on is unique with influences pulled from its location. The studio’s projects range from neutral and serene, earthy and organic, to bold and striking. Although minimal in nature, Simonpietri is never afraid to use pops of color and pattern, especially within kids’ rooms, which bring out the studio’s inner child.
Completing her studies abroad and in New York City, she gained experience working alongside designers including Benjamin Noriega, Ilan Waisbrod, and Mark Zeff before launching her own interior design studio in 2009. The name Chango & Co. is inspired by the feisty grackle birds and unofficial mascot of her home island, Puerto Rico. A lover of the region’s beautiful beaches, Simonpietri has always found a sense of calm and comfort within the coastal setting, which is reflected in her own home and in the homes of her clients.
Sissy+Marley Interiors
With backgrounds in fashion and design, mother-daughter interior design duo Diana Rice and Chelsea Reale of Sissy+Marley Interiors have an impeccable eye for detail and an appreciation for sophisticated and well-balanced neutral palettes. Their love of texture, mixed metals, beautiful textiles, and pattern, blended with their edgy design aesthetic, makes their spaces luxurious and livable.
While each project emerges with their distinct signature, every one of them is unique to the families that live there. The goal for every undertaking is to create a space that their clients love coming home to—one that is chic, but also very relaxed and inviting. Rice and Reale’s team provides residential interior design and architectural services in New York City, the Hamptons, and beyond.
Space Exploration Design
Space Exploration Design seeks to create spaces that resonate with subtle harmony. The firm’s projects, which span interior architecture and design, are driven by a love of simplicity, nuance, craftsmanship and the integrity of beautiful materials expressed through construction. The studio has great reverence for history, but also prizes innovation and fresh ideas.
Founding principal Kevin Greenberg holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to founding Space Exploration in 2008, he worked for firms in New York, Seattle, and Japan, and is also an active writer and teacher.
Studio Tove
Studio Tove, previously Vergara Interiors, was founded by Silvana Vergara—an architect and interior designer with over 12 years of experience delivering high-end space and product designs for a wide range of clients, including residential, commercial, and hospitality projects. Vergara believes interiors act as extensions of ourselves, conveying moods and emotions.
At Studio Tove, the team strives to co-create timeless spaces with their clients. These rooms can be a reflection of their inhabitants, and exist in synchrony with their energy and aesthetic pursuits. Vergara’s interest in sustainability and eco-conscious projects has resulted in an exploration into material health research and a refocus of her interior design practice on wellness. She holds a certificate by the Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons as a designer qualified to create healthier interiors.
Are you looking for an interior decorator or designer to hire for your next project? Wherever you are, visit the AD PRO Directory to browse our list of AD-approved designers and find your match for a design consultation.
