William T. Georgis’s approach to design, he says, centers on “responding to context and program, problem solving, intuiting my clients’ dreams and realizing my own.” His architecture is predicated on invention and tradition as well as on an unorthodox use of materials; his interior design augments its architectural context while promoting its own point of view. “Often, architects stop at a certain level of detail,” Georgis observes. “I think it’s meaningful to design down to the minutiae so that the small scale, both architectural and decorative, reinforces the big picture. And there’s always that opportunity for a beguiling reciprocity.”

Georgis, whose 14–year–old practice employs five architects and five interior designers, is designing three new houses in the Hamptons; various other homes are also on the boards. Among his recently completed Manhattan projects are his own town house and his first restaurant, Chinatown Brasserie (“great fun to create and very different from the rest of my work”). An earlier commission was the renovation and furnishing of the public spaces of Lever House on Park Avenue. Georgis draws on a myriad of influences—classical Greek, Mayan, 18th–century French and Japanese domestic architecture; Le Corbusier, the fashion designer John Galliano and the Pop artist Alex Katz—for a style that combines modernity, classicism and, significantly, the unexpected.

William T. Georgis

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