Mario Lopez-Cordero

Dec 6, 2024 | fredericmagazine.com | Jill Simpson |Mario Lopez-Cordero

Katie Ridder helped an empty-nest couple downsize in style with a color-splashed sanctuary. The jubilant spirit of Mary and Evan Davis’s New York apartment announces itself the moment you walk into the foyer, where leafy, luscious decoupaged fern prints line the walls and a bright blossom painting by Angelina George erupts like fireworks above a sober Shaker-style bench.

Oct 18, 2024 | fredericmagazine.com | Jill Simpson |Mario Lopez-Cordero

Architect Craig Intinarelli oversees a gracious renovation for a discerning art-world alum and her family in Bedford, New York. Guard Hill Farm commands the corner of two pretty, prominent estate roads in Bedford, New York—one of America’s toniest hamlets, where lots are zoned at four acres and residents include Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren, and designer Stephen Sills.

Mar 29, 2024 | luxesource.com | Mario Lopez-Cordero

A weekend place is always something we’ve talked about—a big parcel to build a house and garden. The first time we walked onto the property we went through an unassuming gate, past a few sheds dotting the grounds and nothing else of which is its real beauty. But then the property unfolded, sloping up a hill with the most amazing citrus and avocado trees. In that moment, I got this sense of the land. It felt like a canvas.

Jan 2, 2024 | fredericmagazine.com | Mario Lopez-Cordero

There's no shortage of comfort in the sprawling space. The design brief—an antiques-filled New York City foothold for a Texas family—was a think-outside-the-box notion considering that the 3,000-square-foot space was in 40 Bond Street, an apartment building with soaring ceilings by noted Swiss minimalists Herzog & de Mueron.

Nov 14, 2023 | luxesource.com | Mario Lopez-Cordero

Billy Cotton is a polymath decorator whose soulful, wide-ranging body of work can incorporate bouillon fringe and chintz balloon shades as easily-and winningly-as it does sculptural staircases and chalky white walls left ethereally unadorned. And while Cotton's deft, resonant interiors can run the gamut stylistically, they are all rooted in a rigorous, inquisitive point of view the New York-based practitioner picked up at Pratt Institute.