Meyer Davis


Meyer Davis is an internationally recognized interior design boutique with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and London. Founded in 1999 by friends Will Meyer and Gray Davis, the firm specializes equally in residential, hospitality, retail, and workplace design, and has over seventy full-time interior designers, project managers, industrial designers, and virtual designers on staff.

History

Will Meyer and Gray Davis are natives of Nashville, Tennessee, and both attended Auburn University College of Architecture, Design, and Construction in Alabama prior to moving to New York City. Davis began his career in Montgomery, Alabama, at the office of his professor, Bobby McAlpine, and moved to New York City following college to work first for John Saladino, and later for Thomas O’Brien’s Aero Studios, where he designed for clients including Giorgio Armani and Ralph and Ricky Lauren. Upon moving to New York, Meyer trained with architects Peter Eisenman and his mentor Charles Gwathmey, working on homes for the likes of Steven Spielberg and Michael Dell.
Meyer and Davis were connected in New York by mutual friends and colleagues, and eventually began consulting with one another on freelance projects, leading them to formally establish Meyer Davis in their first SoHo office in 1999. Their collaborative studio began with a commission for a residence in Tennessee and a nightclub in Las Vegas, and quickly led to work for Oscar de la Renta, Andrew Carmellini, and John Varvatos. Other notable clients of Meyer Davis have included Jonathan Tisch, Aby Rosen, Barry Sternlicht, the Frist Family and Jenna Lyons. The pair have also collaborated on numerous private residences in Upstate New York and East Hampton.
Along with designing for numerous private residential clients, Meyer Davis has collaborated with top chefs and restaurateurs like John McDonald and Chef Josh Capon, Chef Michael White and Altamarea Group, Chef Ford Fry, Chef Andrew Carmellini, Chef Michael Schwartz, Starr Restaurants, and SBE. Meyer Davis has been selected by a wide variety of top-tier brands worldwide to design hotels and residential developments; clients include Four Seasons, Rosewood Hotels, Auberge, Loews, 1 Hotels, W Hotels, Le Méridien, The Ritz Carlton, and The Related Companies, as well as numerous boutique hotel and development groups. The studio has also designed retail and office environments for Oscar de la Renta, Dwell Studio, John Varvatos, Morgenthal Frederics, Snapchat, and The Assemblage.

Notable projects

The Vendome Press published Meyer Davis’s first monograph in October, 2016: Made to Measure: Meyer Davis, Architecture and Interiors. Written by founding editor Dan Shaw, and with a foreword by writer and designer David Netto, the book illustrates the studio’s practice in both residential and hospitality design.

Collaborations

Meyer Davis has developed custom furniture, lighting, fixtures, and finishes for clients over the past 20 years. In 2017, Meyer Davis completed their first official product collaboration with Rich Brilliant Willing, unveiling the designs for two unique lighting families: Pilot and Hoist. The product catalog states that the two studios share a “taste for simplicity” and a goal to design fixtures that can be used indoors and out.

Awards and honors

Meyer Davis has received awards from Hospitality Design, Boutique Design, NYCxDESIGN, and the James Beard Foundation. Notable awards include Interior Design’s Best of Year Award for Best Green Hotel and Boutique Design’s Gold Key Award for Best New Hotel and Best Lobby in 2015—and in 2016, a Hospitality Design Award for best Luxury/Upscale Public Spaces and an NYCxDESIGN Award for Vaucluse restaurant. St. Cecilia restaurant in Atlanta was a James Beard Award winner for restaurant design in 2017. In November 2018, Meyer Davis was one of four industry professionals inducted into Hospitality Design’s Platinum Circle hall of fame.