Style Icon Jenna Lyons Makes Her Furniture Debut
Jenna Lyons in her Soho loft with a lamp, tables, and dining chair from her new furniture assortment with Roll & Hill.
“I love actively playing with materials,” claims Jenna Lyons, the New York-primarily based manner designer, model icon, and television persona. As the longtime creative pressure behind J.Crew, she created her identify putting quirky-amazing twists on preppy classics, layering chunky necklaces and sweatshirts with outsized blazers and pairing denim button-downs with, perfectly, generally anything—even eveningwear. On our modern Zoom get in touch with, she wore a typical striped oxford and a navy trucker hat emblazoned with the Roll & Hill symbol, a clue to her most recent job: a debut selection of home furniture with the hit Brooklyn model.
Just after decorating her own trendsetting homes—the Park Slope brownstone, the SoHo loft—and overseeing the visible identity for countless merchants, home furnishings was a all-natural pivot. “Design, for me, has constantly been about resolving a trouble,” she explains, posing the dilemma “What do I want?” Her new line displays the working checklist she’s been holding in excess of the several years. A table lamp brings together a mushroom-like glass shade with a difficult-to-come across brass foundation. (Most, she attests, are chrome.) Her spin on the Louis XIV dining chair is comfortable yet dainty, with a gracious scale, leather-based upholstery, and thin-but-not-scrawny legs. In the meantime, a wooden cocktail table and nightstand (they’re readily available in oak or walnut) deliver components of surprise: Discreet cabinets of unlacquered brass swing out from under the desk, supplying spots to set a drink. “Like earrings,” she remarks of the subtle bling.
Obtainable now, all the furnishings parts are made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the sprawling 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility Roll & Hill procured in February 2020. (Most effective recognized for lighting with the likes of Lindsey Adelman, Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, and Philippe Malouin, the enterprise officially expanded into home furniture this earlier spring.) Not not like Lyons’s fashions, Roll & Hill founder Jason Miller notes, the furnishings “are extremely classic sorts, but they really feel really present-day.” Lyons, who enrolled in a woodworking class to get ready for the collaboration, likens the procedure to updating a basic jean jacket. “I’m not going to reinvent the desk,” she says. “Instead, it’s about asking, what should that glimpse like right now?” rollandhill.com