INPUT — New York Interior Design

ABOUT

People move through a space long before they ever really look at it. They pause in a lobby without knowing why it slows them down. They come home to it, they work from it, they build a life inside it, and if it's done right, they stop noticing it's there at all. INPUT works across luxury multifamily residential and hospitality projects, and designs the products that live inside them through select collaborations.
We begin every project with three questions. Why is it the way it is. Who will experience it. And how must it work, as a system, to serve them. The answers are never the same twice, which is why our work resists a fixed style. What stays constant is the way we think, not a look we repeat. The result is a design language that comes from each project's own logic rather than one imposed on it.
Since founding in 2010, INPUT has delivered more than 300 projects across Brooklyn, Manhattan, and the broader Northeast, from four-unit condominiums to buildings exceeding 600 units. Recent recognition includes a 2026 NYCxDesign Awards Finalist nod, Lobby and Amenities, for The Westmark, and a 2026 NYSID Rising Star Award for both principals.

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DESIGN CONVICTION

We believe a space is felt before it is seen. The visual is the surface. What actually shapes how a room makes you feel, at ease, held, quietly happy, lives in the parts you never notice: how a space is built, how it is sequenced, how light and proportion and detail resolve. We design those invisible decisions with the same care most firms reserve for the visible ones, because they are what the feeling is made of. Often the right reference is not the obvious one. A project's industrial past may matter less than the domestic warmth of the streets around it. We design toward what a place could become, not only what it has been. And we do it with a certain joy. We hold our work to a serious standard and keep our sense of play intact, because we have never believed the two are opposed.

PROCESS

DISCOVERY
Every project begins with its own logic, not ours. Before a single decision gets made, we work out why the site is what it is, who actually needs the space to work for them, and what it has to become to earn its place in the neighborhood around it. That isn't preliminary work. It's where the design gets decided.
NARRATIVE
The narrative comes before the palette. It's built from the answers to those three questions, and it has to hold before a single material gets chosen. Everything that follows, every finish, every fixture, is in service of it, not the other way around.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
The narrative gets translated into space, material, and sequence, and this is where most projects lose the thing that made them worth doing in the first place: the distance between a concept and a construction document. We stay close to ownership, architects, and consultants through that entire distance, not just at the start of it. The detail is where the feeling is built or lost.
COORDINATION
Most design ideas don't die in the concept phase. They die during construction, in a hundred small decisions nobody thought to protect. We stay in the room for those decisions, not just the ones at the start. Buildability gets considered from the first sketch, because retrofitting it later is how a good idea quietly becomes an ordinary one.
DELIVERY
The standard is simple. A finished project should feel exactly the way the first concept said it would. We stay in it through completion to make sure it does.