Philip Gorrivan Design has completed projects ranging from New York City apartments, houses in Connecticut, New Jersey and Long Island, as well as Canada and further a field. Commercial/hospitality projects span from Nantucket to Palm Beach. Currently the firm is working on several New York City apartments and houses in Shelter Island as well as the north shore of Long Island. They have been featured in Designer show houses in Montauk and the Hamptons and New York City as well as New Jersey and Connecticut.
Recent projects include a seven room family apartment in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, filled with glamour, comfort and the unexpected. One is first greeted by an octagonal, black lacquered gallery and marble slab floors that evoke the 1930’s glamour of the Carlyle Hotel. The living areas are a comfortable respite from the city, very tailored yet carefully layered with art and objects, evoking a 20th century continental perspective. The children’s bedrooms are both sophisticated and playful and designed to endure time.
Another project includes a townhouse on the upper east side, where the dining room walls are lacquered in a citrus orange, the chairs in a luxurious cut velvet and a dramatic murano glass chandelier hovers above. The library has an “Orientalist” feel, with rich velvet paisleys, velvet upholstered walls and red faux crocodile wallcovering on the ceiling.
In Litchfield County CT, the team is currently decorating an 18th century farmhouse for a weekend family. The interior is filed with clean, crisp and tailored details including linens in pale blues and grays, woven fabrics in earth tones creating an interior that could easily be in the Belgian countryside.