STUDIO UMBER — Interior design, New York

STUDIO UMBER

A sunlit living room corner in a collected New York interior: a blush velvet sofa under a large framed seaside painting, coral dahlias in a glass vase on a burl side table, a patterned armchair and a layered vintage rug.

We make rooms that look collected rather than decorated — gathered over time, held together by color, proportion and a little friction.

The studio works on houses, apartments and small hotels, usually from the plan stage, and usually for a long time. We draw the joinery, choose the stone, find the chairs and hang the pictures, because a room only reads as one thing when the same hands see it through.

Nothing here arrives all at once. A commission is finished when it can absorb what the people living in it bring home next year.

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SELECTED WORK

All projects

A cast-iron loft living space with tall arched windows, a deep green sofa, a large abstract canvas, a sculptural floor lamp and a chess set on a marble coffee table.

Mercer Loft

A farmhouse sitting room with limewashed walls, a stone fireplace, slipcovered linen chairs, an antique wood bench and dried flowers in a crock.

Hollow Farm House

A boutique hotel lounge with a teal mohair sofa, checkerboard marble side tables, a palm in a brass planter and a gallery wall of small framed works.

Verano Hotel

A townhouse dining room with oxblood lacquered walls, an oval travertine table, mismatched vintage chairs and a glass chandelier, lit by candles and window light together.

Clement House

A garden room under a glass roof with rattan lounge chairs, potted citrus trees, a terracotta floor and an iron table set with ceramics.

Arbor Room

A serene bedroom with oat linen upholstered wall panels, sculptural plaster bedside lamps, a sage wool throw and small framed drawings above the headboard.

Lantern Cottage

THE STUDIO

Residences, hotels and the rooms between them.

The studio was founded to work the way its people already worked — in the room, with the samples on the floor, staying until the pictures are hung. We take a small number of commissions at a time and see each one through from the first plan to the last delivery.

BASED IN NEW YORKRESIDENTIAL AND HOSPITALITYFULL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

About the studio

The studio workroom: a long oak table covered in material boards, a pinboard wall of fabric and paper samples, and two designers seen from behind at the far end under tall windows.

KIN — OBJECTS BY THE STUDIO

Pieces we drew for one room and kept making.

KIN objects are made in small batches with the workshops we use on commissions. They are not stocked and not sold online — write to the studio and we will tell you what is possible.