Our Approach
We design slow spaces: rooms for recovery, for gathering with the people you love, and for living well over years. We believe design should wear in and never wear out.
In practice, we specify the light your body reads in the morning and the light it needs at night. We advise where technology lives so it supports connection rather than interrupting it. We size the island for gathering, place the seating for conversation, tune the acoustics for stillness, and specify the drapery that helps reach a deep sleep.
We follow how our clients live and design homes for them to thrive in. You nourish yourself and those around you and find that you sit down more often than pass through.
Our Services
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We can collaborate with your architect or lead the project with our preferred architects to design room layouts, cabinetry design, select finishing + fixtures for the full scope of your property, inside and out. Our design team has scoured the country for countless resources that enable us to provide a variety of luxury interior design selections in projects with diverse scopes and budgets.
Our team can recommend a build team for you or work with one already assembled. You will always maintain a direct relationship with the build team and we can oversee all design related elements on your project. No detail is left unnoticed.
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Our team of interior designers and stylists expertly layout rooms and curate with furniture, lighting, art for collected spaces in your existing property.
We may recommend minor construction work to change finishes, fixtures, or add storage for a beautiful functional space.
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Our team has experience designing, managing, and reselling investment properties. They will recommended an elevated customer experience with tested products to efficiently manage and protect your investment in a crowded marketplace.
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We work with brands to develop innovative interior environments across the spectrum for a very intentional experience for clients and employees.
From initial planning, integrating branding, and overseeing the installation, our team is fully involved in bringing commercial projects to life.
Meet Michael Gilbride
Born in the United States, Michael grew up across Latin America, surrounded by the bold palettes and indoor-outdoor living of Brazil, Peru, El Salvador, and Colombia. That exposure became an education in modern architecture, furniture design, and the clean line.
Michael sees design as a way of living well. His work uncovers what a space can do, pairing lifestyle considerations with refinement to create homes that are relaxed and polished at the same time. As a member of the ASID, he pursues new methods and technologies that remove friction from daily life while keeping presence intact.
He has been an athlete since high school, and he has paid close attention to his own health for twenty years, the last six of them on questions of longevity. It is not an interest he brought to the work from the outside. It is where he learned what a room has to do. You can be disciplined about your training, your sleep, and what you eat, and still live in a house that quietly works against all three. Most people do, and almost nobody has suggested the room might be the reason.
Before running the studio, Michael was Executive Director of Fashion and Luxury at the New York Times, overseeing the global cross-functional business. He spent years at the Times, Condé Nast, New York Magazine, and agile technology firms, and he brought an operator's instinct for how projects move and how clients think. You see it in how the studio runs.
Michael graduated from Virginia Tech with honors and completed his education in Interior Architecture at Parsons. He is passionate about cooking, fitness, and restorative wellness practices. He lives in the Hudson Valley and New York City with his husband.