F5: Amy Pigliacampo Loves Defunct Neon Signs, Secret Staircases + More
Interior designer Amy Pigliacampo has a special place for Coney Island in her heart, an Airstream named Nova + more in this week's Friday Five!
Interior designer Amy Pigliacampo creates modern, warm, and inviting spaces with an emphasis on playful colors, contrast, muted tones, and organic shapes. She describes her approach as subtractive, peeling back the layers of a space to find the soul of every home. Amy’s resulting modern rebuilds use thoughtful materials to enhance ? not overwhelm ? the space underneath.
Amy’s appreciation for textiles runs deep, and she names her collection of vintage Indian cotton dresses as her most treasured possession. “A stylist that I worked for years ago introduced me to these gorgeous things, and I?ve hunted and purchased them obsessively,” she said. “The fabrics are so soft and thin that it?s like wearing gauze; you sneeze the wrong way or pass too closely to a lever door knob and you can rip them in half. I had to stop wearing them for a while when my children were babies because they would grab onto me and pull. They are so fragile and beautiful and difficult to find in the wild, most of them have been gobbled up and are being sold at crazy prices. Every once in a while I will still go down a rabbit hole on eBay and find a special one.” Amy Pigliacampo
That love began early on, when Amy first saw the Marc Jacobs collection for Perry Ellis Spring 1993. “I had had my Vogue subscription for ...
Interior designer Amy Pigliacampo creates modern, warm, and inviting spaces with an emphasis on playful colors, contrast, muted tones, and organic shapes. She describes her approach as subtractive, peeling back the layers of a space to find the soul of every home. Amy’s resulting modern rebuilds use thoughtful materials to enhance ? not overwhelm ? the space underneath.
Amy’s appreciation for textiles runs deep, and she names her collection of vintage Indian cotton dresses as her most treasured possession. “A stylist that I worked for years ago introduced me to these gorgeous things, and I?ve hunted and purchased them obsessively,” she said. “The fabrics are so soft and thin that it?s like wearing gauze; you sneeze the wrong way or pass too closely to a lever door knob and you can rip them in half. I had to stop wearing them for a while when my children were babies because they would grab onto me and pull. They are so fragile and beautiful and difficult to find in the wild, most of them have been gobbled up and are being sold at crazy prices. Every once in a while I will still go down a rabbit hole on eBay and find a special one.” Amy Pigliacampo
That love began early on, when Amy first saw the Marc Jacobs collection for Perry Ellis Spring 1993. “I had had my Vogue subscription for ...
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