Workstead BROOKLYN

Stefanie Brechbuehler, Robert Highsmith, and Ryan Mahoney—the principals behind the multidisciplinary design studio Workstead—are connoisseurs of craftsmanship. Shortly after forming in 2009, the firm made a splash with its design of the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The trio thoughtfully transformed the formerly industrial building, crafting a cool and contemporary space that preserved its historic roots, and the project has come to symbolize their subsequent work. Documented in the recently published monograph Workstead: Interiors of Beauty and Necessity (Rizzoli), their signature style marries the bones of the past with contemporary sensibilities. Case in point: the firm’s bold grafting of a modernist pavilion onto a graceful Victorian manse to create a genre-bending country getaway for a client in New York’s Hudson Valley (AD, July/August 2021). Additionally, Workstead’s covetable lighting designs have…