Suzanne Shaker Inc.

A former stylist for top interiors, food and lifestyle magazines, Suzanne Shaker is now an interior designer whose quietly sophisticated aesthetic has made her popular with many of the same aesthetic arbiters with whom she used to collaborate on photo shoots.

From Introspective Magazine:

"In the decade or so since she made this career switch, she has built a portfolio of residential projects that share a clean-lined, minimal aesthetic. She gravitates toward unadorned furniture, like flourish-free upholstered headboards attached directly to the wall, neatly tight sofas and rectangular wood dining tables with unobtrusive, low-backed chairs. For Tamarkin’s own Shelter Island beach house — he’s a neighbor — she designed a platform bed made of plywood, covered in painter’s linen and sitting atop four blocks of wood cut from the house’s leftover beams. “It’s so pared back but refined at the same time,” she says. Inspired by a piece she created for a Banana Republic Home shoot, the Tamarkin bed led to ideas for other modular pieces, such as a sofas, all with a Japanese mood, a concept she is considering developing further.

Though her palettes are generally calm and muted, Shaker can bust out the color when needed. Robledo was open to a mustard-yellow sofa in her living room. For two young brothers in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill, Shaker designed built-in bunk beds that double as a playhouse, incorporating cheerful shades of yellow, green, blue and red to compensate for the room’s lack of natural light."