20 designers for 2020: the sotheby’s home list

17. story street studio

What To Look For In 2020
We’re always looking back as much as we are looking forward. So for 2020, we’re excited about bringing back some old-school decorating details and updating them so they feel fresh — café curtains, glazed walls, decorative painted floors, valances. And then pairing antiques and vintage pieces with interesting materials and patterns — still loving boucle and fuzzy textures, and there are so many textile houses putting out really fun prints. Looking forward, the contemporary lighting market is on fire right now, and we expect it to continue to inspire, with so many well-designed and inventive pieces (at all price points!), so we’ll be mixing those in to give rooms a bit of edge or unexpected flair.

The Work
We papered the walls of this intimate Manhattan dining nook in a large-scale metallic floral wallpaper to create a whimsical indoor garden. The soft sheen creates a sense of glamour and serves as a foil for the distressed vintage French leather chairs and reclaimed oak dining table, both found at local antique stores. The collection of vintage hand-block-printed batik and embroidered pillows add some bohemian texture, creating an inviting space to read, to daydream or to host a festive dinner party. A lot of function and style packed into a small space in a city apartment!