On Our Reading List: Billy Cotton Interior & Design Work

Photography from Billy Cotton Interior & Design Work

In his first book, Billy Cotton: Interior and Design Work, NYC designer Billy Cotton takes us on a tour of notable homes he’s created for a rarified art world clientele, including artist Margaret Lee and gallerist Oliver Newton and artist and photographer Cindy Sherman. Take a look:

Billy Cotton, in his former Brooklyn studio, surrounded by vintage finds. He’s now based in Chelsea.

A lounge chair in artist Cindy Sherman’s Springs, NY, house is covered in Pakistani ralli blankets.

The kitchen in a nineteenth-century Red Hook, Brooklyn, row house owned by artists Carol Bove and Gordon Terry features eighteenth-century Dutch tiles.

The dining room in Carol Bove and Gordon Terry’s Red Hook house has a Paul McCobb dining table surrounded by Josef Hoffmann chairs for Thonet.

A bedroom in a 1854 Greek Revival house in upstate New York features layered rugs and a riotous mix of patterns.

A nineteenth-century Austrian painted cabinet anchors a guest room in Cindy Sherman’s Springs, NY;