Location: Brooklyn Heights, NYC

Project Details: Elsewhere is a listening room designed for the 2026 Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse at 1 Monroe Place with Bang & Olufsen, conceived as a place at home that feels genuinely separate from everyday life. At a time when living rooms bleed into kitchens and the home office is never far away, the room is devoted entirely to retreat and leisure, and it is intentionally removed from the visual language of the rest of the house.

Circular forms drawn from records and cassettes give the walnut millwork a graphic, almost futuristic rhythm rooted in retro space-age design, while perforated shutters filter the daylight into something darker and more atmospheric. Heavy velvet drapery absorbs light and sound and plays against a cooler stainless steel wall unit. The wallpaper reads like a view onto a strange landscape, and the bar becomes a glossy, saturated jewel box. The room is maximalist without being excessive, and its intensity is the point, since redirecting the senses rather than quieting them is what lets the mind loosen its grip on everything happening outside.