An independent design practice in New York
One visit. You will know what to do first, what it will take, and what to leave exactly as it is. The Assessment is $2,500. The full plan is $7,500.
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IDist is an independent design practice in New York. We come to your residence, walk every room, and tell you what to do with it, in what order, and what it will take. Two ways in: the Assessment at $2,500, and the whole plan, the Record, at $7,500.
Fifteen years inside private New York residences, from prewar co‑ops to new construction penthouses. Design and build, furniture, and the trades behind both.
Our work lives in
The engagements
You book one of two things. Both begin with us in the residence. Neither obliges you to us afterwards.
The visit
$2,500
Manhattan
Ninety minutes in your home with the person who did the work in the buildings above. We walk every room and say what we would do, out loud, in order. What is already excellent and should be left alone. What is on the public record for your building, what buildings like it typically permit, and the questions to put to your board in writing before you spend anything. PLACEHOLDER, UNSETTLED: what the work runs. A written Findings document follows within the week, and a call to walk it.
The plan
$7,500
New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut
Every room measured. Everything of significance recorded. Then the whole residence planned room by room, in the order it should happen, with actual pieces named and the reason each one belongs where it does, at retail and at trade. Kept current for a year. Yours permanently.
What we know
Not a catalog. The best residences in New York are made by many hands over many years: millwork built for the wall it stands against, upholstery cut for the room, storage designed around what you actually own, light placed for the way you live at night, and pieces by individual masters and artists whose work exists nowhere else. Knowing which hands, in which order, at what moment, is the whole craft. It is what we have spent fifteen years learning, and it is what you are buying.
No. People take the Assessment during the contract period, years after closing, and in the week before they hire a designer.
Good. The plan is yours. Hand it to them.
We run a separate design and build practice. It is a separate agreement at a separate fee, entered only if you ask for it. Nothing in the plan changes based on whether you do.
No. We never tell you what a home is worth. No valuations, no comparables, no price per foot.
We tell you three things, and we label which is which: what is on the public record, what buildings like yours typically permit, and the exact questions to put to your managing agent or board so the answer arrives in writing. Nothing here is a legal opinion or a representation of what any board will approve.
That is what the plan is for. It tells you which room, and it makes sure the next one still belongs when you get to it.
The Assessment is Manhattan. The Record covers New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and outside Manhattan it is the only engagement we offer.