Suspending Reality

Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz is recognized as one of the most stylish and influential of today's interior designers. Throughout his projects, he captures an unusual sense of openness and light through his use of color, materials, architecture, and the unexpected integration of timeless fashion. His immediately recognizable signature style is based on sensuous and sometimes ethereal work that seamlessly marries architecture, interior design, and decoration. This monograph will draw on over sixty of Noriega-Ortiz's projects produced over his eponymous firm's twenty-year history, and will include everything from his own famed all-white apartment in Manhattan to his vibrantly colored Rockaways getaway to luxury spaces in the Dakota and at the chain of Mondrian hotels around the country, as well as homes for his celebrity clientele including Lenny Kravitz, best-selling Mexican author Laura Esquivel, celebrity portrait photographer Mark Seliger, media moguls Michael Fuchs and Russell Simmons, fashion stylist Patricia Field, and entertainment mogul Sean Combs. Text by the former creative director of Metropolitan Home, Linda O'Keeffe, clearly explains the design concepts behind Noriega-Ortiz's work.