Required Reading: Billy Cotton Interior & Design Work
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In his first book, Billy Cotton: Interior and Design Work, NYC designer Billy Cotton takes us on a tour of notable homes he’s created for a rarified art world clientele, including Lisa Yuskavage and Matvay Levenstein; artist Margaret Lee and gallerist Oliver Newton; and artist and photographer Cindy Sherman. Working with veteran design writer Meyer Rus and photographer Steven Kent Johnson, Cotton features 15 projects that display his distinctive touch, mixing historical and modern influences.
Here’s a look inside:
Above Billy Cotton in his former Brooklyn studio surrounded by vintage finds Hes now based in Chelsea
Above A lounge chair in artist Cindy Shermans Springs NY house is covered in Pakistani ralli blankets The fireplace surround is a Billy Cotton design of recessed and protruding ceramic bricks made in Mexico The decoupage side table is by Joseph Heidecker<span id=ezoic pub ad placeholder 872 class=ezoic adpicker ad>Above The kitchen in a nineteenth century Red Hook Brooklyn row house owned by artists Carol Bove and Gordon Terry features Georgian style cabinetry with eighteenth century Dutch tiles
Above The dining room in Carol Bove and Gordon Terrys Red Hook house has a Paul McCobb dining table surrounded by Josef Hoffmann chairs for ThonetAbove A bedroom in a 1854 Greek Revival house in upstate New York features layered rugs and a riotous mix of patternsAboveA nineteenth century Austrian painted cabinet anchors a guest room in Cindy Shermans Springs NY the walls are covered in Fromental wallpaperAbove Billy Cotton Interior and Design Work by Billy Cotton with Meyer Rus and photography by Stephen Kent Johnson is $5980 from Bookshop<span id=ezoic pub ad placeholder 868 class=ezoic adpicker ad style=displayblockimportantfloatnoneline height0margin bottom15pximportantmargin left0importantmargin right0importantmargin top15pximportantmax width100importantmin height90pxmin width728pxpadding top15pximportanttext aligncenterimportant>
Required Reading: ‘Every Room Should Sing,’ by Designer-of-the-Moment Beata Heuman
Required Reading: ‘Still Lives: In the Homes of Artists, Great and Unsung,’ by Leslie Williamson
