INDOORS This house was renovated by its current owners, partners in the design firm Workstead, about five years ago.
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John Dewberry, who collaborated with the architecture and design firm Workstead on the Dewberry's interiors, likes modernism well enough.
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In Gallatin, N.Y., the husband-wife co-founders behind the design firm Workstead converted a 1850s clapboard house into a rural idyll.
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Workstead designed the Orbit sconce, for example, to be adjustable in both ways, with a dimmer and a swiveling reflector that allows the light to be directed or blocked.
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Workstead, a rising design firm, makes its South Carolina debut with the Dewberry, a 155-room hotel built in the shell of the 1964 L. Mendel Rivers Federal Building overlooking Charleston's Marion Square.
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The firm's nearby Workstead House, as it's now known, doubles as a pied-à-terre for its owner and an events space for the couple who designed it, whose own second home is also in town.
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Turns out, they have a house in the area, as do their friends Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, the founders of Workstead, the Brooklyn design studio that happens to be responsible for Rivertown's crisp and stylish interiors.
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In recent years, Workstead has been turning its attention increasingly southward — in 2016, they finished the transformation of a midcentury-era Charleston government building into the majestic Dewberry Hotel, complete with a Rubenesque brass cocktail bar and cypress-clad spa.
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It also highlights some of the tastemakers shaping the interiors world right now, including Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith of Workstead, a celeb favoriting lighting company who shares their guide to illuminating your home — from the best light bulbs to how to the best temporary lighting for renters or the hardwiring-averse.
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But for Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, the husband-and-wife co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design firm Workstead, the recent revamp of an 1850s residence in upstate New York not only presented them with a thrilling challenge, it also marked a celebratory homecoming after a few years spent living in the South.
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The fact that Brechbuehler and Highsmith managed to pull it all off in the end — on time and without making compromises — will not surprise anyone who's familiar with the meticulous modern craftsmanship that the couple, together with their partner, Ryan Mahoney, has brought to establishments such as the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn and the Rivertown Lodge in Hudson, N.Y., where Workstead has just opened a new office.
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Though Brooklyn still represents (among his newer brands is Workstead, started by a couple of former Rhode Island School of Design grads), the front of the space is reserved for elaborate revolving installations and focuses on major pieces by artisans that Alhadeff searches the world for, including Piet Hein Eek, who uses reclaimed lumber in his Netherlands studio; Christopher Stuart, a former welder from Indianapolis; and Rooms, a female duo working in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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