Leyden Lewis’s diverse range of projects include luxury residences on Manhattan’s famous Museum Mile and a contemporary art-filled winter retreat at the Breakers Row in Palm Beach, Florida. Currently under construction is a full-scale architectural renovation of a nineteenth-century Victorian brownstone with a rear garden located in the historic district of Park Slope, Brooklyn. He has designed model apartments public corridors and lobbies for many of New York and New Jersey’s major real estate management and marketing agencies, such as Rose Associates, Insignia, The Sunshine Group, and The Marketing Directors.
As a fine artist, his work has been exhibited widely and has received much acclaim. In 2004, Leyden Lewis was invited by the curator Thelma Golden to participate in the Harlemworld: Metropolis and Metaphor show at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Critic Herbert Muschamp referred to Lewis’s work as “the poetic heart” of the exhibition. When it is desirable, Leyden Lewis Design Studio assists and consults with building art collections for clients.
In 1999 Leyden Lewis collaborated with designer Catherine Kim in the creation of ”The Salon” at the famed Kips Bay Decorator Show House. For this project, Leyden Lewis’s unorthodox use of sheet silicone and lacquered steel tubing were designed and constructed into the kinetic “Ghost” screen.
The space and its infinite possible configurations combined with silk-velvet and mohair upholstery, which rested elegantly on a leather herringbone floor, drew the national attention of publications, such as the Washington Post, Metropolitan Home, Interior Design magazine,House and Garden, and the “Home” section of the NY Times.
Inspired by Pierre Chareau, Gunnar Asplund, Charles + Ray Eames, and Eileen Gray, Lewis continues a tradition of hybrid art, architecture, and furniture design to create a holistic vision.
Leyden Lewis is widely recognized for his creativity and warmth, as well as his passion and rigorous attention to design detail. He is sensitive to the programmatic needs of his clients while he integrates architectural space with the sensual and tactile selections of color, materials, and lighting. For each project, he utilizes space as a canvas for visually sumptuous architecture and design.
Mr. Lewis’s offices are currently in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.