Our mission is to create beautiful environments that promote the wellness of the inhabitant through conscientious design.
A well concieved interior fosters presence of body and mind. A home can enable its users to live their most effective lives since our environment cues our behaviors. We create a vision together as partners and then our team crafts a space meant to evolve by the life lived inside it.
A Successful LKD Interior Exudes:
Sense of Delight
Story, Color, Magic
Sense of Ease
Simplicity, Form Follows Function, Connection to Nature, Togetherness
Sense of Place
Ornament, Ephemeral Light and Shadow, Grounded in History
Get to Know Laura
Laura Kern Hennessey is a New York City based interior designer, with a diverse background in hospitality, residential and commercial design. Before founding her eponymous firm, Laura gained invaluable training at some of New York’s top interior design firms, including AD100 firms Rockwell Group and Jayne Design Studio, and hospitality giant AvroKO, where she contributed to award winning projects. A LEED accredited professional, she has implemented sustainable design strategies in projects ranging from 700 to 700,000+ square feet. She established Laura Kern Design in 2016 with the desire to bring her knowledge of the experiential aspects of hospitality design to her clients’ quotidian spaces. Laura lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, two sons and cat.
Over a decade of practice has formed the following tennants of Laura’s approch to design projects:
Care is our greatest currency
Delight and wonderment are good for you
Sustainability and good design are inextricable when they are based in purity of form and material
Craftsmanship is an expression of nature that entacts culture and supports our sensory existence
Connection is key: a good design bring the internal life to places it can be shared
It’s a Practice: learn, stay curious, listen and collaborate is the formula to make each project better than the last