Meet the designers!

Chris Kraig of Suite New York

Chris Kraig is the creative director of SUITE New York, a contemporary furniture and modern design showroom and store with an impressive current roster of clients including the Alain Ducasse Group, the Gramercy, RFR Holdings, The Athena Group, the W Miami and the Gansevoort Hotel. He is also the founder of Chris Kraig Studio, a NYC-based interior design firm that counts the 2003 creation and development of the Modern Floor of ABC Carpet & Home's flagship New York City store among its many projects. Kraig’s work has been featured in Elle Decor, New York, House & Garden, ID, Harper's Bazaar, City and many others publications.

DESIGN CONCEPT for Cookie Living Show Home (living room)

Chris Kraig for SUITE New York created a contemporary environment to delight both adults and children. The seating area uses large upholstered pieces with fixed cushions to maintain a tidy look, dark upholstery to resist stains, and soft edges to protect younger family members. An herb garden on the versatile dining room table, which can be changed from a square, to three tables, to one long one, is fun for the children and handy for their parents. For reading and entertaining, good lighting was used in unbreakable materials. All fabrics and finishes are durable and wipe clean while being beautiful, comfortable and practical. Storage elements for everyday items and toys maintain the neat look of a home for everyone.

Jennifer Ward of Minor Details

Jennifer Ward is the owner, blogger, Imagination Agent and Creative Director of Minor Details Design, a children’s interior consulting firm focusing on commercial, residential, and recreational spaces. Collaborating with parents to bring about imaginative and constructive family spaces, Minor Details emphasizes independent play, and developmentally appropriate challenges while maintaining a fresh aesthetic. Presently, she writes a daily blog about design for children, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and 4-year-old daughter.

DESIGN CONCEPT for Cookie Living Show Home (kid’s room)

One staple in Minor Details design philosophy is to spark a child's imagination. With Merle's room, inspiration came from the pages of a book*. Most of the furniture is handmade, re-invented or vintage. With this approach a greener message is achieved. The motivation behind the color palette was to provide a gender neutral path for any child who enters. By adding a ton of books, vintage marionette puppets, and milk-fueled highway wallpaper, it was our hope to create an environment where curiosity leads to creativity. Welcome, please make yourself at home.

*The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers

Koko Architecture + Design

Koko Architecture and Design is dedicated to the ideal that design has the ability to improve our lives. Founded in 2000 as a creative partnership established by the husband and wife team of Adam Weintraub and Mishi Hosono, the Studio allows the talented pair the opportunity to formally combine their diverse backgrounds and extensive experience in a multi-disciplinary design forum. While centered on architecture, Koko Studio also encompasses city planning, architecture, and interior design. The firm was named as one of ten “faces of the future” by the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter.

Mishi Hosono, AIA
Adam Weintraub, AIA
Koko Architecture + Design

DESIGN CONCEPT for Cookie Living Show Home (nursery)

Koko’s approach for the Nursery began with the concept of a balance of all senses. Frequently designs for children’s first bedrooms overemphasize the visual sense….at the expense of the less obvious senses. Ironically, a newborn’s sense of touch, sound, smell, and taste are often much more developed than their visual abilities. We saw the Cookie Living Show home as a very unusual opportunity to allow the readers to magically "step into" a page of Cookie Magazine.

Many of the elements might not be fully experienced if only seen in a magazine photograph. The sounds of the wood balls rubbing against each other, or the squishy felt rug create an auditory and tactile experience for the newborn child. The limited color palette further reinforces the balance of all senses. The introduction of the swinging bassinet and "log" bench also provides the child with new challenging ways to move through their space. The "Alice" doorway into the closet, allows for infinite transformations from simple storage to a playhouse or rocket ship. A sense of time and sustainability also are expressed through the use of recycled fabric furniture, vintage wood blocks and a rug made from industrial off-cuts. Despite the emphasis on the non-visual senses…all of the elements combine for a sensual room to share those precious early moments between parents and child.

212box

212box thinks outside theirs. The New York City-based multidisciplinary design firm approaches architecture, public projects, graphic design, film, advertising, and product design with a singular mix of detail-oriented commitment and a rigorously developed sense of play. From large-scale schematic plans to small-scale conceptual design, 212box applies the same attention and no-holds-barred ambition to projects that range from a master plan for a southern city, to the acrylic displays at the Christian Louboutin boutiques. Led by Eric Clough and Eun Sun Chun, AIA, 212box has a team of twelve full time architects and designers and works on projects throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

DESIGN CONCEPT for Cookie Living Show Home (master bedroom & stairwell)

212box approached this project with both the parent and child in mind to design a master bedroom that would "grow" with the family. The firm created a bedroom layout featuring a modular storage system and platform bed that encourages child's play and discreetly conceals kids’ toys behind the headboard while maintaining the parents' personal space in the main area. Built from environmentally-conscious products, the system consists of flexible, interlocking boxes that can be interchanged to accommodate open or closed storage or to support a desk or bench as needs change.