22 Brooklyn Interior Designers to Know From the AD PRO Directory

Dan Howarth, Elizabeth Stamp
·18 min read

Matthew Williams

Based in New York City’s undisputed creative hub, many Brooklyn interior designers have mastered the art of renovating the borough’s historic town houses—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.

Atelier Roux

Atelier Roux incorporated brass elements—hardware, faucets, and a striking hood—to add warmth to a Brooklyn kitchen.

Her experience building her own Brooklyn town house inspired Manon Roux to open her firm, Atelier Roux. The designer carefully guides clients through the entire process, whether they are collaborating on a renovation or selecting the perfect art for an existing space. Atelier Roux’s spaces feel uncluttered yet still highly personal, and Roux’s fine art background shines through in her work, which showcases her eye for form, color, and texture.

The firm takes a white-glove approach, working closely with clients from the initial discovery phase through the final walk-through. Atelier Roux specializes in renovations and new builds and works extensively in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, but also takes on projects nationwide.

Christina Nielsen Design

Christina Nielsen Design made a bold first impression in a New York entryway with a vibrant large-scale floral wall covering.

Christina Nielsen’s interiors feel like the perfect mix of past and present. The designer began her career working on staff at Vogue and founded Christina Nielsen Design in 2017. Whether she’s designing a Brooklyn town house or a home in the English countryside, Nielsen has a knack for incorporating impactful patterns and isn’t afraid to make bold color choices.

Nielsen brings in an eclectic mix of furnishings, including antiques, vintage, and contemporary pieces, and her love of textiles and classic craftsmanship is evident in her beautifully tailored interiors. Christina Nielsen Design works on projects across the country and internationally.

The Brooklyn Home Company

The Brooklyn Home Company took full advantage of an 1845 Greek Revival town house’s views by installing a full wall of windows in the kitchen.

The Brooklyn Home Company makes design a family affair. Founded by real estate developer Bill Caleo; his sister, creative director Lyndsay Caleo; and her husband, artist Fitzhugh Karol, the firm brings artistry and craftsmanship to each project, whether it’s a complex of condominiums, a town house, or a vacation retreat.

Lyndsay Caleo, Eva McCarthy, Stacey Walters, and Holly Waterfield make up the firm’s design studio, which shares the same guiding principles as the development team, including an emphasis on artful details, locally sourced materials, and sustainability. The firm’s extensive portfolio was recently celebrated in its monograph, The Brooklyn Home: Modern Havens in the City.

Home Studios

In a Fort Greene town house, Home Studios commissioned a playful mural by artist Kimmy Quillin, creating an artful powder room.

Founded in 2009 by Oliver Haslegrave, Home Studios made its name designing some of the country’s hottest restaurants and bars, and over the past few years, it has brought its character-filled aesthetic to residential projects. Drawing on its hospitality acumen, Home Studios’s interiors blend comfort and functionality with eye-catching details.

Haslegrave and his team are skilled at creating transformative environments, from a Williamsburg kitchen that feels straight out of the English countryside to a Fort Greene powder room lined with a Picasso-inspired mural. The firm’s interiors show serious range style-wise, but no matter the aesthetic, these homes are made for entertaining.

Office of Tangible Space

For a Brooklyn residence, Office of Tangible Space set the dining area with an arched nook, complete with a custom table and banquette built with Thirdkind Studio.

Founded by Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti, Office of Tangible Space takes a human-centric approach to design, allowing their clients to feel connected to their homes. The firm's interiors have a minimalist feel, allowing the furnishings and materials to take center stage.

The interdisciplinary firm has offices in Brooklyn and San Francisco and offers an array of services, including architectural and interior design, custom furniture and millwork design, and art curation. Whether Yarinsky and Perumbeti are designing a Brooklyn apartment, a custom curvaceous bookcase, or the offices of the razor brand Billie, they bring a playful spirit to each project.

Studio Dorion

Modern forms mingle with classic furnishings in a Brooklyn Heights apartment designed by Studio Dorion.

Michelle Ficker and Peter Dolkas earned their stripes at AD100 firms before striking out on their own, founding Studio Dorion in 2020. The design duo quickly proved themselves to be ones to watch as they completed projects across the country, including grand brownstones, charming country homes, and loft-like apartments.

Offering interior design and interior architecture services, Studio Dorion crafts spaces that feel collected and give subtle nods to the past. Ficker and Dolkas partner with local craftsmen to create future heirlooms and incorporate vintage furnishings to create timeless and sustainable interiors.

Katie Harbison Design

Katie Harbison Design incorporated eye-catching stone in the kitchen of a Notting Hill duplex renovation.

Founded in 2021 by creative director Katie Harbison and commercial director James Christian, Katie Harbison Design brings its timeless aesthetic to projects across the globe, from a Victorian town house in Notting Hill to a family home in California. With offices in Brooklyn and London, the firm works exclusively on full gut renovations or new construction projects, devising a cohesive look throughout the entire home.

Katie Harbison Design is known for its ability to highlight and enhance a home’s historical character, and the firm has experience working on architecturally significant properties. Harbison effortlessly combines classical and modern elements, emphasizing form, craftsmanship, and exquisite materials.

JMorris Design

London’s famous Sketch restaurant and the movie Emma inspired this dramatic SoHo dining nook by JMorris Design.

Moving furniture around her childhood bedrooms led Jennifer Morris to a career in interior design, cutting her teeth at Rockwell Group, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, and Jeffrey Beers International before launching her firm, JMorris Design. The Park Slope–based studio gravitates toward color and pattern, mixing them in unexpected ways.

The designer finds inspiration in each space, crafting personalized interiors that speak to the client and the setting, whether it’s a SoHo duplex or a Connecticut retreat. Her playful style shines in kids’ rooms that are sure to make their occupants the envy of every child on the playground.

Bespoke Only

Bespoke Only leaned into cozy English Country style for a home in Amagansett, New York, bringing in classic tongue-and-groove paneling and adding plenty of comfy spots to lounge.

With degrees in design and cognitive psychology, Bespoke Only founder Melissa Lee knows how to create spaces that impact people on an emotional level. The firm’s signature “new romantic” aesthetic is luxurious yet subtle, featuring an intentional use of negative space and incorporating natural materials, restrained color palettes, and layered textures.

Lee’s designs are meant to unfold and evolve over time, and the team takes an intuitive approach, refining the specifics of the space throughout the project. Bespoke Only’s portfolio of services includes hospitality and residential designs, and the firm works with clients across the Northeast, California, and beyond.

Holly Waterfield Interior Design

Holly Waterfield Interior Design cultivates an arboreal atmosphere in this space, where forest-patterned wallpaper meets natural wood and shades of green in a stairwell.

A sense of warmth and ease can be found in each of designer Holly Waterfield’s interiors. Working on everything from full town house renovations to furniture refreshes, Waterfield and her full-service studio aim to fashion spaces that make every member of the household happy, incorporating natural materials, custom elements, and plenty of vintage textiles.

Waterfield’s experience as a marketing executive, event producer, and store owner shows in her ability to manage projects, keeping them on time and on budget. In addition to her work with Holly Waterfield Interior Design, she also serves as an interior designer for the Brooklyn Home Company, another AD PRO Directory member.

Monomid Design Studio

In a Tribeca loft designed by Monomid Design Studio, a striking Arflex marble dining table is surrounded by Karakter dining chairs and illuminated by a Gino Sarfatti pendant light.

Founded in 2021, Monomid Design Studio takes a forward-thinking approach to space. Interior architect Cem Evirgen’s rooms blend industrial and contemporary styles and feel like galleries for a well-curated selection of furnishings and decor.

Natural light floods Monomid’s spaces, and natural materials balance dark accents and industrial elements. The firm gravitates toward neutral palettes, bringing in color through art or impactful accents. In addition to residential design work, the studio lends its vision to real estate staging projects and operates a shop of curated designer furnishings.

Post Company

Post Company used a piece by textile artist Rachel Snack as the centerpiece of the lobby of the Mollie Hotel in Aspen. Vintage furnishings and a blackened steel hearth complete the space.

Post Company’s multidisciplinary team includes architects, interior designers, graphic designers, art directors, and carpenters, allowing the firm to create a cohesive vision for every aspect of their projects. The firm, which was founded in 2012, works on residential, commercial, and hospitality venues nationwide and internationally and is currently designing hotels in Maine, Nashville, Houston, and San Diego.

Led by partners Ruben Caldwell, Jou-Yie Chou, and Leigh Salem, Post Company creates interiors that are inventive yet timeless, blending fresh ideas with historical inspirations and a bit of wit. In addition to its interior projects, which include upstate hotspot Inness and The Rounds at Scribner’s, the firm also offers an array of services including branding and creative direction, project management, and custom furniture, lighting, and fixture design.

Workstead

Located in the Hudson Valley, this project convenes Workstead’s building, interiors, and lighting practices in a ground-up pavilion paired with a restored 1860 residence.
Located in the Hudson Valley, this project convenes Workstead’s building, interiors, and lighting practices in a ground-up pavilion paired with a restored 1860 residence.
Matthew Williams

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

For the primary bedroom of an 1890s brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Jesse Parris-Lamb mixed a variety of new and vintage pieces.
For the primary bedroom of an 1890s brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Jesse Parris-Lamb mixed a variety of new and vintage pieces.
Photo: Nicole Franzen; Styling: Katja Greef

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

This view of the living room that Leyden Lewis Design Studio created at UN Plaza shows the glass-paneled cube that contains the kitchen.
This view of the living room that Leyden Lewis Design Studio created at UN Plaza shows the glass-paneled cube that contains the kitchen.
Pratya Jankong

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

Inside a 1860 Italianate town house in Fort Greene, Chused & Co replaced the original swinging doors with a wider salvaged archway and pocket doors to allow for an optimal seating area in the living space.
Inside a 1860 Italianate town house in Fort Greene, Chused & Co replaced the original swinging doors with a wider salvaged archway and pocket doors to allow for an optimal seating area in the living space.
Jeff Holt

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

In the home of a Williamsburg-based entrepreneur, interiors by Olivia Song serve as a platform for showcasing a dynamic art collection.
In the home of a Williamsburg-based entrepreneur, interiors by Olivia Song serve as a platform for showcasing a dynamic art collection.
Seth Caplan

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

Emma Beryl’s goal in this Tribeca living space was to define different zones within a large open-plan room, so that a young family could use the area without compromising on comfort, organization, or aesthetics.
Emma Beryl’s goal in this Tribeca living space was to define different zones within a large open-plan room, so that a young family could use the area without compromising on comfort, organization, or aesthetics.
Nick Glimenakis

The key to Emma Beryl’s design process is juxtaposition: Balancing hard lines and soft edges, 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.

A minimalist’s dream with primitive modern interiors, this Sag Harbor home by Chango & Co. features a neutral yet warm color palette.
A minimalist’s dream with primitive modern interiors, this Sag Harbor home by Chango & Co. features a neutral yet warm color palette.
Sarah Elliott

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

At this airy loft in a striking prewar building in Tribeca, Sissy+Marley Interiors took advantage of the arched windows, wide-plank oak floors, exposed beams, and massive custom kitchen.
At this airy loft in a striking prewar building in Tribeca, Sissy+Marley Interiors took advantage of the arched windows, wide-plank oak floors, exposed beams, and massive custom kitchen.
Marco Ricca

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 totally gutted this 1,200-square-foot Prospect Park prewar residence to eliminate its restrictive layout and adjust the proportions of various rooms.
Space Exploration Design totally gutted this 1,200-square-foot Prospect Park prewar residence to eliminate its restrictive layout and adjust the proportions of various rooms.
Nicole Franzen

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

In the living room of an Upper West Side brownstone, Studio Tove chose a few large-scale furniture pieces and incorporated some of the client's preexisting furniture, while being mindful of the energy flow and circulation within the space.
In the living room of an Upper West Side brownstone, Studio Tove chose a few large-scale furniture pieces and incorporated some of the client's preexisting furniture, while being mindful of the energy flow and circulation within the space.
Seth Caplan

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.

Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest

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