December 5, 2024
Brooklyn Design: Nature or Nurture

Going all natural doesn’t always mean doing what’s expected. Brooklyn creatives interpret nature in myriad forms by turns serene, playful, dark, and wild.

A soothing Brooklyn parlor designed by Studio Nune with natural materials and colors includes a gathered silk hanging light by Ruemmler and daybed with attached arm by Nathalie Deboel.

Bouquet paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist duo Chiaozza (Terri Chiao and Adam Frezza) inspired by the natural world are “whimsically otherworldly” and allow us to “imagine other worlds without forgetting our own,” according to gallery Hashimoto Contemporary.

The simple and sustainable Ply Occasional Table by Williamsburg-based furniture maker and set designer Ciara Jade Dockery comprises three pieces of formaldehyde-free, soy-bonded plywood that fit together without any hardware and stow flat.

Gowanus is backdrop and muse to poems by preservationist Brad Vogel about eight years of living and loving in the sometimes spooky section along the polluted canal; “Find Me in the Feral Pockets” benefits the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club and the Lenape Center.

Available from Brooklyn Heights’ Salter House, a unique set of bookends handmade of acrylic paint, wood, and brass by Los Angeles artist Skylar Hughes take the changing seasons as their subject.

curved doorway with view into living room with white walls, fireplace
Townhouse interior design by Studio Nune. Photo by Sarah Elliott
brightly colored painting
‘Bouquet Painting No. 46,’ part of the Cosmic Bloom series, by Chiaozza. Photo courtesy of Chiaozza
room view with a table, lamp and vase
Ply Occasional Table by Ciara Jade Dockery, floor lamp by Calyer Ceramics, vase by Brooklyn Plant Studio. Photo by Oscar Romero
book cover with watery illustration
“Find Me in the Feral Pockets” by Brad Vogel, cover design by Nicole Vergalla. Photo by Brad Vogel
green, yellow and white curved bookends
Skylar Hughes Bookends by Skylar Hughes. Photo by Janna Tew for Salter House

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Brownstoner magazine.

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