About the Designer

CeCe Barfield Inc.. is a full-service interior design firm based in New York City. CeCe Barfield Thompson. She holds a Master’s Degree from Pratt Institute in Interior Architecture and also completed coursework in Historic Preservation.  Beginning her career at Vogue, CeCe specializes in crafting spaces that are high in style, but not in pretense.  She creates sophisticated, fresh, and one-of-a-kind living spaces using old, new, inherited, and found pieces that carefully marry the designer’s style with the client’s individuality. We hope you enjoy taking a look at our Interior Design Spotlight – Cece Barfield Thompson’s Gramercy Park Apartment.

Project Credits

Interior Designer: CeCe Barfield, Inc
Architect: David Hottenroth
Location: New York, NY
Area: 3,500 sqft
Photo courtesy: Thomas Louf / CeCe Barfield Thompson

Interior designer CeCe Barfield Thompson has built her brand on the comcept of “bringing the outside in” and she has decorated her family’s apartment on Gramercy Park accordingly. CeCe and her husband purchased the apartment when it was run down and lacked even a fully-functioning bathroom, and then spent years restoring its classical style. Taken by her famed neighborhood’s green, decorator Cece ushered verdant color and nature-inspired patterns into her family’s New York City living room.

The Living Room

An oil painting by London artist Daisy Cook hangs over a nine-foot Schneller sofa upholstered in stain-resistant fabric (Perennials). The coffee table is crafted from a 19th-century Chinese screen.
Living Room Table – An olive drinks table (KRB), a leafy dahlia hand- block linen (Clarence House), and green ranunculus

Form and function are equally important, and to create a successful space you really have to marry the two seamlessly.
— CeCe Barfield Thompson

In the living room, a George III secretary is paired with a Tom Sachs’s futuristic Shop chair.

Kitchen & Dining Room

Sunlight illuminates stained checkerboard flooring through original steel casement windows.
A gracious, all-over ticking stripe (Pindler) on walls, windows, seating, and a table is animated by a series of glossy color-block lithographs by William Turnbull. Samarkind rug, Doris Leslie Blau

Cece loves setting a captivating tableand says, “It’s like a decorating project in microcosm, with pretty layers and playful details.”

Entryway

In the entry, a mono chromatic vista inspired by the Virginia countryside (wallpaper, Susan Harter) pulls an English Regency-style bench into its pastoral panorama. Persian Malayer rug, Galerie Shabab
CeCe Barfield Home silver cocktail tray atop a Louis XVI–style chest.

Den

Robert Kime’s Indian Pear fabric brings graphic botanicals to a glossy chocolate den. Sofa fringe, Samuel & Sons

Daughter’s Bedroom

Climbing florals (wallpaper, Farrow & Ball), painterly hearts (bedding, D. Porthault), and troupes of roses (chair, Raoul Textiles) in the designer’s daughters’ bedroom.

Primary Bedroom

Audubon prints flank an 18th-century Italian mirror
The designer’s bed is skirted in a printed floral linen (Lisa Fine Textiles) and draped with sheer panels (Clarence House). Bedsheets, Julia B. Wall sconces, Visual Comfort.

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