In his first e-book, Billy Cotton: Inside and Design Work, NYC designer Billy Cotton takes us on a tour of notable houses he’s created for a rarified artwork world clientele, together with Lisa Yuskavage and Matvay Levenstein; artist Margaret Lee and gallerist Oliver Newton; and artist and photographer Cindy Sherman. Working with veteran design author Meyer Rus and photographer Steven Kent Johnson, Cotton options 15 tasks that show his distinctive contact, mixing historic and fashionable influences.
Right here’s a glance inside:
Above: Billy Cotton, in his former Brooklyn studio, surrounded by classic finds. He’s now based mostly in Chelsea.
Above: A lounge chair in artist Cindy Sherman’s Springs, NY, home is roofed in Pakistani ralli blankets. The hearth encompass is a Billy Cotton design of recessed and protruding ceramic bricks made in Mexico. The decoupage facet desk is by Joseph Heidecker.Above: The kitchen in a nineteenth-century Crimson Hook, Brooklyn, row home owned by artists Carol Bove and Gordon Terry options Georgian-style cabinetry with eighteenth-century Dutch tiles.
Above: The eating room in Carol Bove and Gordon Terry’s Crimson Hook home has a Paul McCobb eating desk surrounded by Josef Hoffmann chairs for Thonet.Above: A bed room in a 1854 Greek Revival home in upstate New York options layered rugs and a riotous mixture of patterns.Above:A nineteenth-century Austrian painted cupboard anchors a visitor room in Cindy Sherman’s Springs, NY; the partitions are coated in Fromental wallpaper.Above: Billy Cotton: Inside and Design Work, by Billy Cotton with Meyer Rus and images by Stephen Kent Johnson, is $59.80 from Bookshop.
Required Studying: ‘Each Room Ought to Sing,’ by Designer-of-the-Second Beata Heuman
Required Studying: ‘Nonetheless Lives: Within the Houses of Artists, Nice and Unsung,’ by Leslie Williamson
