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Mia Vesper, the New York designer behind the Impressionist-printed plisse sets beloved by Beyonce, has had to rip down her curtains not once, but twice, to make clothes in order to keep up with the demand for her rising fashion brand.
Vesper, who recently moved into a new apartment in Williamsburg, has otherwise decorated with lucite-shaped candles filled with gold flakes, funky chess boards, and most importantly, an array of vintage textiles including the ones she uses in her fashion label. Vesper has always been interested in items rich with history—her mother is an antique collector. “I definitely grew up in an eclectic-looking home,” Vesper says. “But this is the first time that I ve ever been able to make one for myself.”
When Vesper first decided to make the space her own, she pulled from a wealth of different genres that inspire her. “I feel like every cool house I see is very mid-century modern or eighties terrazzo,” she says. “I wanted to kind of be able to continuously pick up pieces throughout my life. And no matter what color, no matter what genre or time frame, I wanted to be able to put them in my house just if I thought it was cool. The concept is just stuff I like.”
Prints are everywhere in Vesper’s space, offering eye candy from floor to ceiling. “I have a huge arsenal of vintage textiles and rugs since I worked with those from my vintage tapestry collection,” she explains. “So those are on the couch and on the floors and everywhere else.”
She sources from a mix of local antique shops, and is constantly on the hunt for unique pieces online. The majority of her textiles come from eBay. “I have a couple of choice sellers that I will take with me to the grave,” she says. She also loves Dobbins Street Co-op for secondhand furniture, where she recently found her dream piece: a massive white ceramic cat.
But perhaps the most standout feature of the designer’s home is its artwork, arranged perfectly across the walls. Vesper’s boyfriend, a graphic designer, mocked up the entire living room digitally so they could play around with the different paintings and prints, many of which she hand-sourced from Stardust Print Shop in Buffalo, New York.
Despite its avoidance of a distinct theme, there is one motif evident in Vesper’s home: the moth. Vesper considers it an emblem of her brand. She collaborated with the pillow designer Maria Tilyard on an oversized cushion made of vintage velvets in the likeness of the humble creature, and a neon bat with moth-like wings hangs above her stacks of vintage textiles in her workroom.
Vesper’s love of fashion is equally obvious in her home: She proudly displays Mexican cowboy boots on her credenza, and a blazer on the wall. Just like with the curtains, the textiles seen in her interior are some of the exact same used in her collections. “Usually I m stuck between deciding whether or not to use a textile for a jacket or, you know, another one-of-a-kind item, or [whether to] use it for the home,” she says. “So they kind of cycle in and out, but that s a good thing because I always want the room to be new and exciting, especially right now when I m in it all the time.” As for the peach walls? They were painted to match her hair, of course. “It s the idea of not having any boundaries, as far as pattern, color, space.”
