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Classic white farmhouse with brick chimney set on manicured green lawn, framed by stone wall and evergreens, mountains visible in misty background, by Billy Cotton.
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Billy Cotton

Interior DesignerResidentialLighting Design

Founder & Principal at Billy Cotton Studio

Billy Cotton is a multidisciplinary designer and creative director of Billy Cotton, a Brooklyn-based studio spanning architecture, interiors, furniture, and lighting design. He studied industrial design at Pratt Institute and began his interior-design practice in 2011 after founding Custom Resource, an earlier venture focused on building and product work. He was added to Architectural Digest's AD100 in 2017, and his work is the subject of the monograph 'Billy Cotton: Interior and Design Work,' published by Rizzoli.

Experience

  1. Founder & Principal

    Billy Cotton Studio

    2005 – present

    Current

Past projects

  1. Greenwich Street

    Residential · New York, New York

    Triplex penthouse for artist Cindy Sherman in the West Village

  2. Beverly

    Residential · Beverly Hills, California

    1920s Spanish-style house renovation

  3. Brooklyn Townhouse

    Residential · Brooklyn Heights

  4. Ocean House

    Residential · West End, East Hampton

  5. East 57th Street

    Residential · New York, New York

  6. Beach House

    Residential · Los Angeles County, California

  7. Fall Clove

    Residential · Delancey, New York

  8. Grace Court

    Residential · Brooklyn Heights

Awards & press

  • Architectural Digest AD100

    Architectural Digest

  • Elle Décor A-list

    Elle Décor

  • Billy Cotton leans into Brutalism at this new Manhattan bistro

    The Spaces · April 2024

  • Billy Cotton and West Elm Launch First-Ever Collaboration

    Architectural Digest · February 2024

  • It Took 2.5 Years to Turn This Brooklyn Townhouse Into an Art-Lover's Dream

    The Wall Street Journal · March 2024

  • Inside David Harbour and Lily Allen's "Weird and Wonderful" Brooklyn Town House

    Architectural Digest · March 2023

  • Billy Cotton Stages a 'Design Intervention' in a Friend's Connecticut Home

    Frederic Magazine · July 2022

  • Billy Cotton, an Interior Designer for Blue-Chip Artists

    The New York Times · June 2022

Selected work