Arthur Dunnam for Jed Johnson Studio | Best Interiors from NY – Arthur Dunnam for Jed Johnson Studio was founded at the end of 2016 in New York to carry on the work of Jed Johnson Associates, where Arthur Dunnam had been the Design Director for the previous two decades. Keep reading and get to know this amazing interior design studio and some of their best interior design projects!
In 1997, Jay Johnson, Jed’s twin, and the firm’s Controller felt that the company should continue and nominated Arthur as Design Director. At that time, the company’s name was changed from Jed Johnson and Associates to Jed Johnson Associates.
Arthur Dunnam traveled to New York after graduating from Washington & Lee University in historic Lexington, Virginia, to pursue a graduate interior design program at Pratt Institute, where he was very lucky to apprentice at the firm founded by the great Billy Baldwin. After Pratt, Arthur Dunnam’s apprenticeship turned into full-time employment, exposing him to some of the world’s most prestigious properties, including the villa La Fiorentina in Cap Ferrat.
Jed Johnson, who had no formal design experience, had created a name for himself by renovating Andy Warhol’s townhouse interiors to accommodate Andy’s vast collection of decorative and fine art. After completing the Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge residences in New York, his fame grew.
Jed’s firm was flourishing and providing the appropriate next step in Arthur Dunnam’s career path, with clients like Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, as well as collectors Peter and Sandy Brant, to mention a few. For eleven years, Arthur collaborated with Jed, whose generosity of spirit allowed Arthur Dunnam to flourish as a designer and project manager while also building strong ties with their clients. Following Jed’s death, those client ties were critical to the firm’s success.
With Arthur Dunnam as Design Director, Jed Johnson Associates was able to retain a staff of over twenty people and has continued to produce projects of the caliber for which it became known: luxurious, unexpected but appropriate, finely attuned to the client’s lifestyle, the architectural integrity of the residence, and reflective of the setting. Arthur’s work has been featured on the covers of Architectural Digest, House and Garden, House Beautiful, and Metropolitan Home, as well as in several books, including Interior Design Master Class, Designs for Living, Designing The Hamptons, Designers on Designers, The Curtain Book, and many others.
Arthur Dunnam has demonstrated his capacity to be a respectful member of the design team by collaborating on a number of residences with multiple partners at Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Gil Schafer, Frank Greenwald, and many other notable architects. If a project requires it, his expertise and ability qualify him to take on a more extensive position. The settings for Arthur’s varied assortment of projects have included Big Sur, Mustique, several Bahamas islands, Martha’s Vineyard, Palm Beach, Lake Michigan, Rancho Santa Fe, Scottsdale, Aspen, Vail, and Chicago, as well as Eastern Long Island, New York, and Connecticut.
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