Every show house has its hurdles, and this year’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House was no exception. From unexpected stop-work orders to missing furniture, designers faced no shortage of curveballs on their way to opening night. Jamie Drake, vice chair of the show house and designer of the garden terrace, was thrown off course by an unexpected intrusion by the Department of Buildings. “A very busy-bodied neighbor filed six complaints with the NYC DOB, and we were issued a stop-work order!” says Drake. “It put us way behind schedule.” (Ironically, his terrace, which referenced Mies van der Rohe, John Saladino, and Louis Kahn, was conceived as an oasis of calm.
“The teamwork was incredible,” she says. Andrea Schumacher,whose Pink Rhino Club was inspired in part by her childhood in Nigeria, echoes the necessity of teamwork: “With contractors literally working on top of each other, it becomes a ballet of ladders, power tools, and patience.”
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