Kips Bay Show House

Given the worst room in the show house, we made it the one nobody wanted to leave. As a newer name at the inaugural Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, Cravotta was assigned a windowless converted attic. He took it. Then he doubled down and made it dark, enveloping, and entirely his own. Without a client to design for, he became the client. The room was conceived as a multi-sensory experience: speakers designed by Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy, a VPI turntable handmade in the United States, an Octave tube amplifier handmade in Germany. Santa Maria Novella potpourri scented the air. The lighting was tuned, not placed. Walls and ceiling wrapped in Phillip Jeffries wallpaper. A neon sign of Cravotta's own design. A hammock by Jim Zivic Design. Art curated in collaboration with gallerist Jody Klotz. The whole thing was designed and installed in three months, during COVID. When the other designers in the show house kept finding excuses to linger in the room, the work was done.