Interior designers Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe create fully detailed interiors that achieve that rare feat of feeling inspired rather than overly done.
Photography by Haris Kenjar, courtesy of Nickey Kehoe.
A prime example is their recent dip back into Manhattan for repeat clients, Hollywood couple Lee Eisenberg (his long list of tv and film creds includes co-head writer of The Office) and Vanity Fair national correspondent Emily Jane Fox, who bought a Noho loft with plans of being bicoastal.
With its ornate paneling and coffered ceiling, the “salon” evokes an old New York club lounge.
For light filtering privacy and a touch of “old New York romance, the designers hung pinch-pleated cafe curtains on the loft’s outsized windows. The Italian Rounded Black Metal Sconces were existing and came from Obsolete.
Human-scaled seating areas keep the living room from feeling cavernous: “The loft previously leaned in to the rectangular layout. We subtly infused curvilinear lines to interrupt that rigidity,” says Kehoe.
The round dining table is surrounded by midcentury French rustic-luxe Guillerme et Chambron chairs cushioned in a Zak + Fox fabric.
Nickey and Kehoe aren’t afraid of fringe.
At the far end of the living space, the designers tweaked the existing all-black kitchen by introducing a painted island, green marble counters, and the custom hood. The Counterbalance Brass Pendant Lights are 1970s designs by Florian Schulz.
The kitchen’s modern hutch was “made into a jewel box” with the introduction of reeded glass fronts and Ipswich Sprig, a 1760s English reproduction wallpaper from Adelphi.
On the western end of the loft, the main bedroom has eight oversized windows (in addition to the cafe curtains, there are remove-controlled blackout shades). The space is anchored by an Iksel hand-painted wallpaper behind the bed, which has a vintage sari quilt from John Derian.
A wallpapered screen softens a corner of the room. The vanity and Pull Up Chair are Nickey Kehoe designs.
The primary bath was the most significant remodel: the designers introduced parquet floors from Exquisite Surfaces, a custom marble double vanity, and finished the shower in “a stucco with marble accents.” The Red Perforated Lampshade Sconces are by Howe Home of London.
The guest bedroom has a vintage rattan headboard and swivel chair, and cafe curtains in a paneled handkerchief cotton
The powder room feels like stepping into a Chinoiserie screen—set in the UK.