Five Must-Know Restaurant Designers in New York
In New York, where restaurants are as much about the space as the food (who could forget the over the top look of Buddakan by Christian Liaigre or the moody luxury of the NoMad by Jacques Garcia?), design firms can become stars in their own right for creating the right aesthetic at exactly the right time. Today, casual design fans may know the names of Taavo Somer (Freemans, ISA, Le Turtle), AvroKO (Public, Beauty & Essex, Saxon & Parole) or Roman and Williams (Upland, Lafayette, The Dutch), but there’s another group of restaurant designers—both emerging and established—who have put their stamp on some of New York’s most interesting dining interiors, largely under the radar. Here, the five design firms creating buzzy restaurants you should know.