About
Designing and building residences since 2009.
IDist writes the plan for a residence. It comes from a practice that has designed and built residences since 2009, with two workshops making millwork, custom wood, upholstery, and drapery, and hundreds of projects across the tri-state region. Each plan draws on what those projects specified, built, and cost.
Our work lives in
Why IDist exists
Owners kept asking what to do with the residence, and there was nothing to buy.
A designer wants the project. A contractor prices the work you already described. An architect has no time for interior specification. So the question every owner actually has, what should we do with this place and what will it take, had no answer you could purchase. IDist is that answer, written down, at a published price.
150 Barrow Street designed by Erika Flugger
We work with
The principal
Daniel Flugger
Operator-led work inside private residences since 2009, with direct relationships across top brands and the masters whose work belongs in them. I have been on every side of this: the design side, the build side, the workshop floor, and the owner's side of the table watching money go into the wrong options in the wrong order. I built IDist because owners in this city deserve a place they love whether they stay three years or thirty. IDist is pronounced eye-DEE-ist.
Recognition
Where the work has appeared.
- Work featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, and Industry.
- Featured by Google in a Workspace video, recognized for geospatial development, March 2025.
- Accepted into Google for Startups, 2025.
- Applied AI curriculum at Brown University, guest faculty, 2025.
- IDist launched February 2025. NYC Design and Culture launched Fall 2025.
City guide
NYC Interior Design® Guide
The same fabric of masters, firms, galleries, and craft that any New York residence belongs to. The platform covers the city's design ecosystem, and the news feed covers it as it unfolds.
The Record, in editions.
The Record has been refined edition by edition. Every visit is made by the principal and takes about half a day with travel, so dates are booked by inquiry. IDist does not take every residence.
Practice founded.
NYC Interior Design ® established. A design-build practice built on verified, in-person residential work in New York City.
Visit →First studio opened.
Opened our first New York City studio to produce handcrafted custom dining tables, banquettes, consoles, and dressers for private clients and premier showrooms.
Upholstery studio opened.
Established our Brooklyn upholstery studio to craft custom sectionals, upholstered headboards, drapery, and compound pieces made to specification.
Original furniture line launched.
Designed and produced in the Brooklyn studio. Pieces made for the specific residence, not the showroom floor.
Tri-state region.
Design-build service area expanded to the Hamptons, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Florida and California.
Expanded services to Miami and Los Angeles by arrangement.
Architectural Digest
Signature Manhattan penthouse project featured nationwide. Design-build at full scope.
IDist founded.
Fifteen years of verified residential work formalized into a permanent record product.
Visit →NYC Interior Design Guide launched.
nycid.com — a guide to New York City interior design, architecture, showrooms, and buildings. The resource connecting design-conscious owners to verified expertise.
Visit →First edition.
The first Records delivered. $4,000.
Second edition.
The full platform. $6,000.
Third edition.
Onsite services extended by appointment. $7500
Tri-state expansion.
IDist Records now available across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Miami and Boca Raton.
IDist extends to South Florida by engagement.
Request a record
The Record is a written plan for your residence, in the order the work should happen.
Request the Record