WHAT: A decidedly tailored aesthetic. “I don’t like to design with a lot of pattern, fringe, or tassels,” Hether says. “The lines of a piece of furniture should make a statement in a room.” Bolder accents are used in smaller doses so as not to “ruin the moment. They need to be special, not all over the place.”
WHERE: Hether is currently at work on a project that she likes to call a “refresh” in Scarsdale. “My client has a very traditional home but is craving a more modern, contemporary aesthetic,” she says. “So I’m updating her accessories and taking things out—like her heavy drapes, which I’m exchanging for sleeker panels.” Other commissions include a studio in Tribeca and an Upper East Side apartment for a young family.
WHEN: After working as an in-house interior designer for a Manhattan-based architecture firm and as a project manager for Vicente Wolf, Hether found herself itching to be on her own. “My time with Vicente was short-lived, but I learned so much from him,” says the designer, who made it official by opening Darci Hether New York in 2006.
WHY: “There are so many different challenges with every single space I walk into,” Hether says. “For me, for my business, and for how I like to work, that’s a very good thing.”
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