Incollect Magazine - Issue 11

Andrew Torrey was raised on a farm in Kansas, and at age twenty-one brought his dreams and ambition to New York City and began working in real estate, where he was exposed to the field of interior design. Rather quickly, he found his true calling and in 2013 founded his eponymous firm. In 2018 he was invited to participate in the prestigious Kips Bay Decorator Show House, a step that has boosted many careers into the stratosphere. Torrey’s ravishing ‘The Afterparty’ lounge was a sensation, landing him coverage in the New York Times and bringing an influx of prestigious projects to his small firm. Now, only six years later, his first monograph, Torrey: Private Spaces: American Dreams has been released. Showcasing twenty- three projects, it underscores the wide-ranging scope of his practice, from a New York City pied-à-terre to a New York City loft, a Hamptons compound, a Cabo San Lucas beach house, a historic Beverly Hills estate, and the former home of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in London. HIs interiors have a cool, modern ambience balanced with sensual, tactile warmth, featuring fine art and photography, contemporary glass and ceramics, and vintage and collectible design. Torrey creates deeply personal spaces that articulate his clients’ dreams, proudly calling his book a “book of American Dreams.” Acclaimed for his understated elegance, Marshall Watson creates interiors that blend quiet luxury with comfortable livability. With an in-depth knowledge of periods and styles, he is known for his meticulously researched designs. Watson’s interiors uncover and recognize the special qualities found in historic structures and furnishings, and preserves them while moving them forward into a contemporary context. In his second book, Defining Elegance, Marshall shares fourteen new projects from a wide range of environments, revealing how his design principles adapt to different lifestyles, geographies and climates. For clients relocating from a New York City townhouse to a light and airy seaside home in Greenwich, Connecticut, a modern renovation of a barn in Napa Valley, to the renovation of a 1980s spec house in Palm Beach he reimagines into a 1920s Mediterranean revival aesthetic, plus his own sumptuously layered apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Watson explains how he translates each owner’s lifestyle, the house’s history, and the setting into a highly personal form of elegance. 48 www.incollect.com