Madison Avenue gets a Facelift

In its forty-second year, the internationally recognized Kips Bay Decorator Show House hosted by New York’s most prominent youth organization, the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, will make an unprecedented venue shift this spring as it takes over Manhattan’s quintessential mansion at 457 Madison Avenue, The Mansion on Madison. Situated in the heart of Manhattan’s most luxurious shopping district, the famed building which was originally the north wing of the famous Villard House, is connected by a grand courtyard to adjacent luxury hotel, The New York Palace. This spring, the gilded-era mansion will invite the world’s leading interior designers to revive its historic interiors before opening to the public for one month beginning Thursday, May 1.

The 22 designers and architects participating in this year’s Decorator Show House include: Carrier and Company Interiors Ltd., Christopher Peacock, Cullman & Kravis Inc., Darryl Carter, Inc., Edward Lobrano Interior Design, Inc., Ingrao Inc., John Douglas Eason Interiors, Juan Montoya Design, Kirsten Kelli, LLC, Mark Hampton LLC, Markham Roberts Inc., Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Matthew Quinn, Mendelson Group, Inc., Meyer Davis Studio, Inc., ODADA (Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Design Associates), Robin Sacks Decorative Painting, SPaN Architecture, Vicente Wolf Associates, Villalobos Desio, William T. Georgis Architect, Young Huh, LLC

Proceeds from the Decorator Show House, which attracts an estimated 15,000 visitors each year, benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club which offers innovative after-school and enrichment programs for more than 11,000 youth, ages 6 through 18, in ten locations throughout the Bronx.