5 Young Interior Designers on the Rise Inline
Photo: Courtesy of Benjamin Vandiver1/5Nashville-based Benjamin Vandiver has an urbane, elegant approach to design that lies in his artful orchestration of scale and texture. His projects are tightly edited and typically eschew predictability for something more quixotic. While his palate veers towards the monochromatic and earthy, he knows just where to inject a bright, singular element.
Photo: Courtesy of Lilly Bunn2/5Lilly Bunn layers whimsy and tradition in her comfortable, uptown-oriented projects. She has an eye for sophisticated symmetry, coupling order with saturated bursts of color and optimism. Her time spent at McMillen, Inc. is evident in her cheerful work, though Bunn dispenses with comme-il-faut formality for something extremely livable instead.
Photo: (from left) Charles de Vaivre; Brittany Ambridge3/5Unlike most designers, who hone their craft under the tutelage of an established decorator, **Patrick Mele’**s background was in store and brand design before he launched his eponymous firm. The 30-year-old Connecticut native has a penchant for binary colors, especially black and white. While recurring elements and motifs show up in his work, his projects remain uniquely authentic to their location and its owners.
Photo: Courtesy of Samuel Amoia4/5Prior to starting his own firm, Samuel Amoia worked under the iconic “master of adjacencies,” Stephen Sills. The 32-year-old designer is passionate about Parisian Art Deco, though his work beautifully mélanges the historical and the modern in new and original contexts. One of Amoia’s great strengths is his deft handling of negative space, which creates a kind of poetry between forms of furniture, artwork, and textures.
Photo: Courtesy of Young Huh5/5Upon graduating from Fordham Law School, Young Huh had a change of heart. Abandoning her newly acquired law degree, she took a position as an intern at a design firm and eventually founded her own. Her work is as varied as her career background; whether working with jute and distressed wood or silk velvet and chintz, Huh’s hand quietly disappears to fit any project.