In addition to beautiful interiors, Kati Curtis also provides tailored advisory for Private Equity in Customized Furniture & Design. The world of private equity is one of ambition, transformation, and untapped potential. For firms looking to invest in the lucrative fields of interior design and online furniture retail, the opportunities are vast—but so are the complexities. When investing in specialized industries like these, it takes more than just financial acumen. It takes an insider’s understanding of the artistry behind the products, the nuances of customer behavior, and the intricate supply chains that drive this market. This is where our advisory services come into play. Designing Success Through Industry Expertise An investment in the interior design or online furniture sector is more than a numbers game; it's about understanding the heart of the industry. The interior design world thrives on customization, storytelling, and personalized experiences, while online furniture retail demands the right marketing, scalability, and seamless customer journeys. Kati is a seasoned expert with both financial and industry-specific experience, making her uniquely positioned to guide private equity firms toward successful investment outcomes. Why Invest in Interior Design and Online Furniture? Both interior design and online furniture retail sectors are poised for growth, driven by changing consumer lifestyles and increasing attention to home aesthetics. Here's why these industries are compelling investment targets: Elevated Demand: With the rise of remote work and shifting priorities, more people are investing in their living spaces, fueling...
We are thrilled to be a part of Design Share - a group of the Top 10 NYC Interior Design Firms that gather each month to share tips, challenges, and offer resources and support to each other. If you have recently purchased an apartment in one of the luxurious buildings in Manhattan, the interiors have to be just as awe-inspiring. Whether you want a traditional or modern aesthetic, an expert interior designer can help in bringing your dream apartment to life. Our group is comprised of many design firms with different tastes and styles, and it's important to choose a designer whose work resonated with your personal aesthetic. Kati Curtis Design: Kati Curtis Design is an award-winning interior design firm specializing in high-end residential and home renovation projects. Kati is admired for her ability to create layered interiors that combine function, texture, and color. The firm's design aesthetic is contemporary, timeless, and infused with color, art and personality. Lisa Frantz Interiors: Lisa Frantz Interiors is an award-winning interior design firm focused on residential projects. Their approach is to create a space that reflects its owner's personality and style. Lisa Frantz Interiors offers services from design concept consultation to full project management. Neal Beckstedt: Neal Beckstedt Studio is known for its timeless, sophisticated designs. The firm's design philosophy is grounded in a keen sense of proportion and scale, combined with the use of quality materials. Neal Beckstedt specializes in creating spaces...
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In addition to beautiful interiors, Kati Curtis also provides tailored advisory for Private Equity in Customized Furniture & Design. The world of private equity is one of ambition, transformation, and untapped potential. For firms looking to invest in the lucrative fields of interior design and online furniture retail, the opportunities are vast—but so are the complexities. When investing in specialized industries like these, it takes more than just financial acumen. It takes an insider’s understanding of the artistry behind the products, the nuances of customer behavior, and the intricate supply chains that drive this market. This is where our advisory services come into play. Designing Success Through Industry Expertise An investment in the interior design or online furniture sector is more than a numbers game; it's about understanding the heart of the industry. The interior design world thrives on customization, storytelling, and personalized experiences, while online furniture retail demands the right marketing, scalability, and seamless customer journeys. Kati is a seasoned expert with both financial and industry-specific experience, making her uniquely positioned to guide private equity firms toward successful investment outcomes. Why Invest in Interior Design and Online Furniture? Both interior design and online furniture retail sectors are poised for growth, driven by changing consumer lifestyles and increasing attention to home aesthetics. Here's why these industries are compelling investment targets: Elevated Demand: With the rise of remote work and shifting priorities, more people are investing in their living spaces, fueling...
We are thrilled to be a part of Design Share - a group of the Top 10 NYC Interior Design Firms that gather each month to share tips, challenges, and offer resources and support to each other. If you have recently purchased an apartment in one of the luxurious buildings in Manhattan, the interiors have to be just as awe-inspiring. Whether you want a traditional or modern aesthetic, an expert interior designer can help in bringing your dream apartment to life. Our group is comprised of many design firms with different tastes and styles, and it's important to choose a designer whose work resonated with your personal aesthetic. Kati Curtis Design: Kati Curtis Design is an award-winning interior design firm specializing in high-end residential and home renovation projects. Kati is admired for her ability to create layered interiors that combine function, texture, and color. The firm's design aesthetic is contemporary, timeless, and infused with color, art and personality. Lisa Frantz Interiors: Lisa Frantz Interiors is an award-winning interior design firm focused on residential projects. Their approach is to create a space that reflects its owner's personality and style. Lisa Frantz Interiors offers services from design concept consultation to full project management. Neal Beckstedt: Neal Beckstedt Studio is known for its timeless, sophisticated designs. The firm's design philosophy is grounded in a keen sense of proportion and scale, combined with the use of quality materials. Neal Beckstedt specializes in creating spaces...
Gone are the days when a grand entryway was a symbol of wealth and status. Nowadays, modern design trends prioritize practicality, space efficiency, and a seamless connection between the entryway and the rest of your home. If you're looking to update your entryway, it's important to know the interior design trends to avoid that can consume valuable space and compromise your living experience. In this guide, we'll go over some entryway trends to avoid and offer tips on how to create a welcoming and inviting entryway that suits your lifestyle. Here are interior design trends to avoid for entryways: Large, extravagant, two or three-story grand entry halls were popular in the past, but now they're outdated and impractical. These types of entryways can consume valuable usable space, making it challenging to blend them with the rest of your home. They can also be a hassle to maintain and decorate, particularly for people who want to infuse their personality into the space. Instead, modern design trends lean toward creating welcoming, inviting entryways that flow seamlessly into the rest of the home. Contemporary design values practicality, efficiency, and a seamless connection between the entryway and the rest of the home. In addition to the grand entryways, white and monochromatic entryways are an Interior design trends to avoid. While they used to be a symbol of purity and sophistication, they now look bland and unoriginal. If you want your entryway to reflect your...
When it comes to hiring a Greenwich interior designer, there's probably a lot of questions that come to mind. If you've never worked with an interior designer, it can feel a bit intimidating! You want to make sure you have found not only the perfect match when it comes to design, but also in professionalism and their knowledge of the field. Here at KCD, we want our clients to turn into lifelong relationships they can depend on. We've compiled our top 10 questions to ask an interior designer before hiring them to help make the decision easier. What is your process like? While interior design can seem all fun and creative, there's really a lot of technical work that goes into it. It's so important that the interior design team you work with has a tried and true system in place! Ask anyone you are considering working with what kind of project management systems they use, what types of questionnaires they work with, and how they hold themselves accountable. In interior design, the smallest mistake can be extremely costly and time consuming. For example, one missed letter on a paint color specification can end up costing hundreds of thousands in a new paint job when you show up and it's the wrong color. When you're spending six figures on furnishings and custom fixtures, you can't afford errors. You want to be certain the team you hire is extremely detail oriented...
After the year we've had, many people are leaving cities in favor of a slower pace in the suburbs. Suburban areas like Westchester, New York, Greenwich, Connecticut, and the Hamptons are starting to attract a lot more residents who desperately want to escape the crowded city. If you're thinking about leaving the city life, we get it!! We've compiled some of our favorite healthy home tips to incorporate into your interior design to turn your home into the perfect urban sanctuary. A place of respite from the hustle and bustle that also supports all the comfort and convenience of city living. 1. Infrared Sauna New York City and Los Angeles were once full of places you could go to detox and relax in an infrared sauna. Places like Higher Dose and Chill Space were the places I frequented to recharge and reboot. Infrared saunas are one of the most effective ways to detox - so why not put one in your home? Infrared saunas are safer to use in your home since they use light rather than conventional heat to warm the body. Some of the health benefits include detoxifying the body, sore muscle relief, clearer, and firmer skin, and improved circulation. We are carving out spaces to give our clients their own in-home saunas, which is a perfect way to take advantage of the less utilized space in your home. It's the perfect way for us to bring this...
Could the days of the less is more, pared-down decor aesthetic be behind us? It’s not a secret: We LOVE a good (healthy) dose of pattern-mixing, color-splashing, and bold-layering in our work. In fact, we have built a reputation for dousing our interiors with colors, motifs, patterns and textures - all influences brought home from our world travels. So much so that last month the Wall Street Journal featured us, alongside other fabulously maximalist designers, showcasing some highly curated and refreshingly bold interiors. Maximalism is definitely not for the faint of heart. But if you feel your inner maximalist calling, don’t be shy! Go ahead, bravely take the plunge and embrace the wildly fun and dynamic style in your own home! Here are some ways we incorporate more is more in our projects: Books, art, china, vases, you name it! If you have more than a couple of your favorite object, bring them out, display them front and center and make a statement! Wallpaper is a great paint alternative and can powerfully transform a drab, sometimes eyesore of a corner into the pièce de résistance of your home. This is where you can be most adventurous. When it comes to patterns and styles, matchy-mathcy is not always better. There's beauty in an antique heirloom piece juxtaposed with the cleaner lines of a contemporary one. You will be amazed how harmoniously well leopard, tiger and floral prints fit together. Sure there's nothing wrong with neutral, muted tones - there's...
It's always such a joy to have our work featured, but I especially loved getting to talk to Pilar Vidalas at 1st Dibs. We discussed how I'm getting through quarantine, our office in NYC, some latest projects, and what's inspiring me now. One of the latest projects featured in this piece was this Tribeca interior design we recently completed. The owners are a family from Toronto who owns an international shipping company. They recently relocated their home base from Canada to the US. It’s at 11 Beach Street, New York in Tribeca, which is a recently opened building designed by BKSK and Thomas Juhl Hansen. We completely renovated the interior from top to bottom to accommodate their Tribeca Interior Design. First, they transitioned from Canada to the US. But the second was from suburban to city life as they downsized from a large home in the Toronto suburbs. They wanted the details and comfort of their very traditional home in Canada, but also an environment conducive to their new modern city lifestyle. The original apartment entry had low ceilings and no storage at all. We wanted to create a sequence of discovery by designing a cerused oak built-in with a coat closet clad in antiqued mirror. First, adjustable shelves house finds from the clients’ vast travels. Then, grasscloth paper in alternating patterns give the walls texture. Continuing down, custom rugs add just the right amount of softness and pattern. Finally,...
Of course, we love it when our work is published. What's even more meaningful to me is the long term relationship we have with our clients. This one, in particular, has spanned all the way from 2011! We were first contracted to design the renovation and interiors of a land-marked West Village Townhouse. As their family grew, KCD was there to update the home. The latest included creating 2 bedrooms out of 1 when their 3rd child came along and revamping things to highlight their ever-changing art collection. It's been a true joy and honor to watch their family grow and to help adapt their beautiful home to fit their new lifestyle. We created a home– European in flavor and sensibility, yet, cleanly and minimally modern. And because the client are avid art collectors, we approached the project as “designer as curator.” Meaning? We curated the interiors as we would curate a collection, designing a “home as gallery space.” The result? A home perfectly crafted to showcase the family’s taste, as well as their appreciation of culture and beauty. Head on over to Architectural Digest to read more about this West Village townhouse. There are so many interesting elements carefully curated and collected over the years- you won't want to miss it!
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