An invited room at the 2022 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse: a jewel-box sitting room built on hand-painted chinoiserie, brass, and navy velvet, photographed and published citywide.
Each year, the Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse invites a small group of the neighborhood's designers to take on a historic brownstone room by room. Circa22 was given a sitting room: no client, no brief, just the chance to design purely from a point of view.
A showhouse room lives or dies on memorability. It has to stop visitors mid-walkthrough and photograph beautifully from every angle. But the best rooms resist pure spectacle: ours needed to feel like a real home someone could live in.
We built the room outward from a hand-painted chinoiserie mural in soft plaster-pink, a custom backdrop that set the palette for everything else. Brass bamboo-dome table lamps and a curved navy velvet sofa brought warmth and a hint of drama; sculptural ceramics, a round sunburst mirror, and an upholstered swing/bench added texture and a note of wit. Warm woods throughout kept the whole room grounded.
The finished room was photographed by Tom Benedict Photography and featured across Aspire Metro, Brownstoner, and Chairish: warmth, craft, and quiet confidence in a single room.
"The room was photographed in full by Tom Benedict Photography and featured across Aspire Metro, Brownstoner, and Chairish."As featured in Aspire · Brownstoner · Chairish
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