Tivoli

Despite their combined decades of experience in the design industry, newlyweds Kristin Coleman and Chad Phillips had far-ranging ideas about what their ...

“We’re excited to have a platform to share their work.” “We want to activate a lot of this stuff for kids,” Phillips says, “so they can see how easy it is to make a chair or a lamp or a pillowcase. The show will bring together 13 New York State-based artist and designer friends in what Coleman calls, “a playful take on traditional furnishings and country tropes.” There will be Delft-inspired ceramics, Windsor-inspired furniture, quilted textile paintings, and milking stools galore. “It’s a prefix,” Phillips says. Both Coleman and Phillips still maintain their remote 9-to-5 gigs during the week, with the shop open on Saturdays and Sundays. Coleman is the senior vice president at Novita, a New York-based PR and marketing firm specializing in design and architecture. We wanted to take that idea and show older pieces that were already doing that.”