Tour the 2026 Kips Bay Decorator Show House New York

September 14, 2024

Even the most established New Yorkers love a reinvention, and after 50-plus years, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House is no different. Last year, the annual gathering moved from uptown to Greenwich Village, and changed the calendar from spring to fall. This year, the event adds an exciting art moment, curated by author and art-world insider Gay Gassmann, who will elevate the show house’s emblematic stair.

Aamir Khandwala Interior Design envisioned his room, The Secret Garden, during a trip to Barcelona, where he viewed the fantastical designs of famed architect Antoni Gaudí. “The Secret Garden is a magical space—a world that invites you to explore, where imagination and exploration have no limits,” says Khandwala, who enveloped the space with plaster walls hand-carved with a leaf motif, then installed a topographical Crosby Street Studio rug. Exuberant furnishings and art from Cristina Grajales Gallery, Maison Gerard, Hostler Burrows, The Future Perfect, Twenty First Gallery, R&Company and more add to the transportive ambience.

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    • Hubert Le Gall

      Born in 1961 in Lyon, France, Hubert Le Gall is self taught in sculpture and design and has reigned for more than two decades as a celebrated figure on the international design scene. He works with a small team at his studio in Montmartre, Paris, which once served as the atelier of French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard, and also collaborates with French artisans bearing generations of technical expertise to bring his sculptural design works to life. Known for his witty approach to functional pieces and design objects, Le Gall is inspired by archetypal imagery from art history such as Andy Warhol’s daisies, Roy Lichtenstein’s sunsets, and Jean-Pierre Raynaud’s pots, creating unique pieces and small editions built from classic materials such as bronze, brass, exotic woods, and velvet. Making lavish use of fine furniture craft techniques including marquetry, gold leaf, and Lesage embroidery, Le Gall pushes the limits of his craft with what he calls “in between objects” that stand halfway between sculpture and decor, questioning the imperative to functionality. Plants and animals are recurring themes within Le Gall’s oeuvre of furniture, lighting, and decorative objects: anthropomorphic shapes which suggest allegories of desire, innocence, and our animal nature, demonstrating the artist’s poetic spirit and sense of humor united with a fondness for luxury. Le Gall’s work is found in many prestigious private and public collections worldwide, including Musée La Piscine in Roubaix and Montreal’s Musée des Beaux-Arts. He has held solo exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Château Borély in Marseille, the Musée de Beaux-Arts in Riom, and at Villa Kérylos at the French Centre de Monuments Historiques. In tandem with his work as an artist, he has also worked for two decades as a scenographer and consultant for large museums in France, including the Jacquemart-André and Musée Maillol, as well as the Grand Palais and Musée d’Orsay, where he helped stage exhibitions of Claude Monet and Pierre Bonnard respectively. Admired by top architects and designers such as Peter Marino, Caroline Sarkozy, and Jacques Garcia, Le Gall’s sculptures and furniture appear in Dior boutiques, and he has also collaborated with distinguished French brands Ruinart and Hermes.

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    • Hélène de Saint Lager

      Hélène de Saint Lager is a sculptor based in Paris, known for her distinctive pieces made from poured aluminum and polyester resin. Having studied art history at the Louvre School and worked previously in restoration, casting, metalwork, and millinery, her approach melds functionality with a painterly approach to color and form to produce her lively and surrealistic creations. In her home workshop in Ivry-sur-Seine just outside of Paris, de Saint Lager creates her crystalline resin works, which shimmer with iridescent colors and inclusions that range from metallic paper cuttings to objects such as flowers and tiny multicolored Eiffel Tower replicas, a cheeky touch that exemplifies the artist’s lighthearted and refreshingly un-self serious approach. Unafraid to engage a broad palette of forms, finishes, and stylistic diversions, her work comprises light fixtures, tables, chairs, mirrors and sculpture works that are dreamlike and plasmic, at times congealing into an alien camp aesthetic. Her fantastical bronze and aluminum furniture are made with the assistance of a metal caster and retain the signature of their liquefaction, lending a sense of lavish exuberance and delightful disequilibrium. For those bold enough to embrace them, de Saint Lager’s pieces reward the senses with their warmth, richness of materials, and luxurious abundance of color and shapes. De Saint Lager’s artistic methodology is rooted in her breadth of experience in the worlds of art and design, and her work retains a diaphanous aura all its own, while conjuring a host of visual associations and predecessors such as Fauvism, science fiction films, and assemblage art. She has been sought out by the world’s top designers including Jacques Garcia, who has commissioned her work for Schiaparelli and Hotel La Réserve in Paris, L’Institution in Lyon, and Maison Vougeot; as well as architect Peter Marino, who has placed her tables in Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior boutiques in London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Seoul.

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