NYC Interior Design Studio Transformation seen in 1st Dibs’ Introspective and House Beautiful Step into our office where the magic happens! Located at 130 W 57th Street, this former shoe showroom has been transformed into the perfect NYC interior design firm studio. I have a great love for traveling, and tend to bring back treasures from all over the world. A few of my most treasured pieces include a vintage drafting table from Paris that I use for all my renderings (yes, I still hand draw!), and our onyx conference table that takes center stage for both client meetings and team huddles. Look up and, you’ll see two of my favorite parts of the entire space. The first being a monumental mid century chandelier. We have a double height ceiling, and this chandelier was the perfect centerpiece.  However – only in the winter months do we have to turn it on due to the incredible skylight that flanks the width of our entire space. Our work relies so much on light, and this access to natural light was key to creating a successful NYC interior design firm studio space. I wanted to make this workspace a place that reflected the spirit of Kati Curtis Design – and the mix of materials, light, and all of our inspirational pieces make this the perfect idea incubator for all of our projects.

NYC Office Interior Design seen in Interior Design Magazine A teachers advocacy group– serious and focused–wanted a crisp, minimal NYC Office Interior Design for their Manhattan Financial District offices, and KCD was happy to oblige.  And then we felt the need to inject the personality of the organization into the 13,500 square foot space.  So we created a brand expression that says serious, organized, focused and with a profound purpose…the education and enrichment of our nation’s children by the empowerment of our teachers. How do kids learn, we wondered?  Through play, we remembered. (Thinking back over our own decades.)  So we created playful interiors grounded within a solid foundation.  We added our version of “magic carpets” to look like rolling hills, designed a picnic table for the cafe—outfitted with data ports—to make spontaneous meetings and conferences easy (oh, and you can eat there, too.) Phone booths, made of felt, provide the possibility of private calls in public areas.  The little mushroom stools are not just fun they’re also great ergonomically, and do triple duty being used for the group’s impromptu work style:  grab a person, grab a seat (okay, a mushroom stool), have a meeting. About that green we used as an accent…we were inspired by the green apple on their logo. Then, searching for a new expression of it, KCD interpreted the green in ways that weren’t expected yet were still appreciated for their beauty, and all while reinforcing...

Having designed their flagship offices in NY’s Time Square, KCD moved on to design the client’s Chicago headquarters Tech Firm Interior Design on North Wells—a space that the client wanted to reflect the industrial look and feel of the area.  And with that we off and running. We stripped the floors down to the concrete, sandblasted them and refinished them, giving them their rough-hewn, terrazzo look. Leaving the ceilings exposed let us maintain the industrial feel, painting them black let us bring the scale down to a more human scale.  And while “cozy” isn’t usually the word we associate with an industrial warehouse the black ceiling makes the space feel more intimate.  Elements like the recycled railroad ties we used on the walls and reception really reflect the client: raw and edgy, but we integrated the newest, most modern technology and furniture, color, pattern and art to reveal another side of them: sleek and playful. Did we mention these are engineers we were designing for?  That was important because they work long, long days (which sometimes go into nights.)  And they needed to be productive over those long hours. One of key feature we integrated into our design, that the client ended up standardizing, are the sit-stand desks.  Not only did productivity go up, job satisfaction did, too.  (And bad backs went down.) As in most of our tech firm interior design projects, we knew that the client had a...