DESIGN COUNCIL
BILLY COTTON
Billy Cotton is a multi-disciplinary design firm known for its thoughtful decision-making and nuanced, multi-scale approach. In both commercial and residential projects, the studio’s eponymous creative director expertly weaves together bold color palettes, custom-designed furniture and lighting, and striking artworks to achieve livable and easy interiors for today. The firm’s creations—spanning from architecture and interiors to furniture, lighting, and product design—have earned it a top spot on Architectural Digest's AD100 and Elle Decor's A-List, as well as features in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue. In 2022, the firm published its first monograph, Billy Cotton: Interior and Design Work (Rizzoli), which provides an inside look into its glamorous collections, industrial design projects, and interiors created for high-profile clients, including famed artists Cindy Sherman, Lisa Yuskavage, and Matvey Levenstein. Featuring text by Mayer Rus of Architectural Digest and photography by Stephen Kent Johnson, the tome documents the 15 projects that gave rise to the swift and sweeping success of Billy Cotton.
Billy Cotton is a multi-disciplinary design firm known for its thoughtful decision-making and nuanced, multi-scale approach. In both commercial and residential projects, the studio’s eponymous creative director expertly weaves together bold color palettes, custom-designed furniture and lighting, and striking artworks to achieve livable and easy interiors for today. The firm’s creations—spanning from architecture and interiors to furniture, lighting, and product design—have earned it a top spot on Architectural Digest's AD100 and Elle Decor's A-List, as well as features in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue. In 2022, the firm published its first monograph, Billy Cotton: Interior and Design Work (Rizzoli), which provides an inside look into its glamorous collections, industrial design projects, and interiors created for high-profile clients, including famed artists Cindy Sherman, Lisa Yuskavage, and Matvey Levenstein. Featuring text by Mayer Rus of Architectural Digest and photography by Stephen Kent Johnson, the tome documents the 15 projects that gave rise to the swift and sweeping success of Billy Cotton.
ELLEN HAMILTON
A quick glance at Ellen Hamilton’s work is enough to reveal a designer deeply committed to the decorative arts. What you don’t see are the piles of books that inform each project and the intensive research and wild inspiration that follow. Drawing on everything from the Convent of San Marco to The Thin Man, her projects reflect a perennial student dedicated to and enchanted by the complexity of design. Her deeply considered process of translation, iteration, and innovation is one that has made for profound client relationships as she dives into their vision to expand both their base knowledge as well as her own. Engaging with the unique history of each property, her projects honor the past to bend and shape a home for our time—so that these extraordinary spaces can continue to live on in the present. Her dedication to education, history, and community has taken the form of The Brooklyn Designer Showhouse, which she founded in 2017 with a focus on championing emerging talent and encouraging intellectual curiosity in the design industry. Hamilton’s work has been featured in Veranda, Luxe, Vogue Living Australia, Elle Decor, Galerie, House Beautiful, and other leading design publications.
A quick glance at Ellen Hamilton’s work is enough to reveal a designer deeply committed to the decorative arts. What you don’t see are the piles of books that inform each project and the intensive research and wild inspiration that follow. Drawing on everything from the Convent of San Marco to The Thin Man, her projects reflect a perennial student dedicated to and enchanted by the complexity of design. Her deeply considered process of translation, iteration, and innovation is one that has made for profound client relationships as she dives into their vision to expand both their base knowledge as well as her own. Engaging with the unique history of each property, her projects honor the past to bend and shape a home for our time—so that these extraordinary spaces can continue to live on in the present. Her dedication to education, history, and community has taken the form of The Brooklyn Designer Showhouse, which she founded in 2017 with a focus on championing emerging talent and encouraging intellectual curiosity in the design industry. Hamilton’s work has been featured in Veranda, Luxe, Vogue Living Australia, Elle Decor, Galerie, House Beautiful, and other leading design publications.
ALEXA HAMPTON
Since taking the reins of her father’s iconic design firm in 1998, Alexa Hampton has contributed to her family’s legacy of creating elegant, practical, and classically informed interiors for modern living. This past year, she was inducted into Architectural Digest’s AD100 Hall of Fame after 20 years of being regularly named to the AD100. Her other honors include recognition on Elle Decor's A-List, the LCDQ Living Legend Award, and the Connecticut Cottages & Gardens Innovator Award. In her critically renowned design books published by Potter Style, The Language of Interior Design (2010), Decorating in Detail (2013), and Style, Design, and Influence (2023), she offers a deep dive into the projects that have earned her widespread acclaim. Beyond interiors, Hampton is also an established product designer: To date, she has released collections with Theodore Alexander, Visual Comfort & Co., the Shade Store, and SA Baxter, among others. She sits on the board of trustees for the New York School of Interior Design, where she holds one of her two honorary doctorates, and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.
Since taking the reins of her father’s iconic design firm in 1998, Alexa Hampton has contributed to her family’s legacy of creating elegant, practical, and classically informed interiors for modern living. This past year, she was inducted into Architectural Digest’s AD100 Hall of Fame after 20 years of being regularly named to the AD100. Her other honors include recognition on Elle Decor's A-List, the LCDQ Living Legend Award, and the Connecticut Cottages & Gardens Innovator Award. In her critically renowned design books published by Potter Style, The Language of Interior Design (2010), Decorating in Detail (2013), and Style, Design, and Influence (2023), she offers a deep dive into the projects that have earned her widespread acclaim. Beyond interiors, Hampton is also an established product designer: To date, she has released collections with Theodore Alexander, Visual Comfort & Co., the Shade Store, and SA Baxter, among others. She sits on the board of trustees for the New York School of Interior Design, where she holds one of her two honorary doctorates, and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.
COREY DAMEN JENKINS
Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates is an internationally acclaimed interior design firm based in New York City. Founder, principal, and proud son of Detroit, the firm’s namesake is celebrated for mixing vivid colors with layered patterns to create inspired, iconic, and uplifting spaces, and for using panache and refined elegance to design furniture that brings the best of the classics into the present. Since winning HGTV's “Showhouse Showdown” in 2011, Jenkins has achieved widespread acclaim, appearing as a guest design expert on The Rachael Ray Show, in addition to earning design awards and recognition on Architectural Digest’s AD100, Elle Decor's A-List, and the 1stDibs 50. His bold interiors have graced the front covers of House Beautiful and Traditional Home, and he has been featured in publications including Veranda, The New York Times, and The Detroit News. His numerous industry honors include the 2023 ARTS Award for Interior Designer of the Year and the New York School of Interior Design’s Larry Kravet Design Industry Leadership Award. Already an esteemed MasterClass instructor in interior design, his first coffee table book, Design Remix: A New Spin on Traditional Rooms (Rizzoli), has now entered its sixth reprint since its publication in 2021. He also recently unveiled collections with Maitland-Smith, Hancock & Moore, Kravet Couture, and Leftbank Art. Outside design work, Jenkins continues to support community-based work by sitting on the Board of Trustees for the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club and funding a scholarship and mentor program with the New York School of Interior Design.
Corey Damen Jenkins & Associates is an internationally acclaimed interior design firm based in New York City. Founder, principal, and proud son of Detroit, the firm’s namesake is celebrated for mixing vivid colors with layered patterns to create inspired, iconic, and uplifting spaces, and for using panache and refined elegance to design furniture that brings the best of the classics into the present. Since winning HGTV's “Showhouse Showdown” in 2011, Jenkins has achieved widespread acclaim, appearing as a guest design expert on The Rachael Ray Show, in addition to earning design awards and recognition on Architectural Digest’s AD100, Elle Decor's A-List, and the 1stDibs 50. His bold interiors have graced the front covers of House Beautiful and Traditional Home, and he has been featured in publications including Veranda, The New York Times, and The Detroit News. His numerous industry honors include the 2023 ARTS Award for Interior Designer of the Year and the New York School of Interior Design’s Larry Kravet Design Industry Leadership Award. Already an esteemed MasterClass instructor in interior design, his first coffee table book, Design Remix: A New Spin on Traditional Rooms (Rizzoli), has now entered its sixth reprint since its publication in 2021. He also recently unveiled collections with Maitland-Smith, Hancock & Moore, Kravet Couture, and Leftbank Art. Outside design work, Jenkins continues to support community-based work by sitting on the Board of Trustees for the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club and funding a scholarship and mentor program with the New York School of Interior Design.
PETER PENNOYER
A longtime supporter of The Winter Show, Peter Pennoyer is the founding partner of Peter Pennoyer Architects, a New York–based architecture and design firm with an office in Miami. With 200 built projects and counting, the firm’s work is characterized by sophisticated detail and high-quality craftsmanship, as well as its graceful ability to balance comfort, beauty, modernity, and continuity with the past. His studio has been widely recognized for its expert handling of new construction, renovation, and historic conservation projects within the US and abroad. A fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an honoree of Architectural Digest’s AD100, he is co-author, with Anne Walker, of five books on early 20th-century American architects and A House in the Country (Vendome Press), with his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder. Recent projects include a house for the Jeff Koons family; The Benson, a new apartment building on Madison Avenue; a new Art Deco clock in Moynihan Train Hall; and Rowdy Meadow, an award-winning Czech Cubism–style house in Ohio, which is also the subject of a book published by Vendome Press in 2021. The firm's newest book, Peter Pennoyer Architects: City | Country, will be released through Vendome Press in Fall 2023.
A longtime supporter of The Winter Show, Peter Pennoyer is the founding partner of Peter Pennoyer Architects, a New York–based architecture and design firm with an office in Miami. With 200 built projects and counting, the firm’s work is characterized by sophisticated detail and high-quality craftsmanship, as well as its graceful ability to balance comfort, beauty, modernity, and continuity with the past. His studio has been widely recognized for its expert handling of new construction, renovation, and historic conservation projects within the US and abroad. A fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an honoree of Architectural Digest’s AD100, he is co-author, with Anne Walker, of five books on early 20th-century American architects and A House in the Country (Vendome Press), with his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder. Recent projects include a house for the Jeff Koons family; The Benson, a new apartment building on Madison Avenue; a new Art Deco clock in Moynihan Train Hall; and Rowdy Meadow, an award-winning Czech Cubism–style house in Ohio, which is also the subject of a book published by Vendome Press in 2021. The firm's newest book, Peter Pennoyer Architects: City | Country, will be released through Vendome Press in Fall 2023.
WENDY GOODMAN, HONORARY CHAIR
Wendy Goodman Wendy Goodman is a leader in the international design community and has been New York magazine’s Design Editor since 2007. Over the course of her career she has defined trends, discovered new talent, and worked with the best designers, architects, and photographers. She regularly hosts talks on design, at venues ranging from the 92nd Street Y to the Museum of the City of New York and has appeared on NBC’s Open House and Good Morning America, among other outlets. As Design Editor at New York magazine/Vox Media, Goodman produces design stories for the print issues, and also content for weekly design stories on the Curbed website, now part of New York magazine. Goodman previously worked as New York’s interior design editor (1997-2007) and fashion editor (1984-1989). Before rejoining New York magazine in 1997, Goodman was the style editor at Harper’s Bazaar. Prior to her work at Bazaar, Goodman covered the world of style and fashion for House and Garden, tracking fashion designers and artists at home and traveling to the Paris, Milan, and New York shows. She is the co-author, with Hutton Wilkinson, of Tony Duquette (2007) and author of The World of Gloria Vanderbilt (2010), May I Come In?: Discovering the World in Other People’s Houses (2018).
