Joan Barzilay Freund

Oct 27, 2023 | 1stdibs.com | Colleen Egan |Joan Barzilay Freund

When designing a dining room in Paris’s eighth arrondissement, Rafael de Cárdenas, the mastermind behind the New York–based firm Architecture at Large, had great bones to work with. The space, in a magnificent Haussmann-era hôtel particulier was sprawling and grand.

Sep 22, 2023 | 1stdibs.com | Karen Quarles |Joan Barzilay Freund

The vast living room that Fern Santini created for jewelry designer Kendra Scott’s Lake Austin home features 24-foot-high ceilings, stile-and-rail wall panels and a curated selection of artworks. “The overriding design philosophy for the interior was that it should feel ‘accumulated,’ as if the family had lived there for generations,” says the Austin-based Santini.

Sep 7, 2023 | 1stdibs.com | Joan Barzilay Freund

“This girl doesn’t sleep!” Sam Klemick says of herself, laughing. The Miami-born, Los Angeles–based woodworker and furniture designer runs a namesake studio that focuses on reimagining discarded materials. Oh, and she also has a full-time job designing knitwear for a major fashion brand.

Aug 4, 2023 | 1stdibs.com | Karen Quarles |Joan Barzilay Freund

“The objective was to create a series of clearly defined outdoor rooms,” Wesley Moon says of the sprawling terrace he designed for a Park Avenue penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.