Dwell Magazine: The Writer’s Studio Featured in Instagram Post
“While this stone-clad writer’s studio might look simple, it’s actually surprisingly advanced with glass sliders, geothermal heating and cooling, and a motorized roof hatch to the deck.”
Editorial
Magnifissance: Article Featuring West Village Townhouse Transformation
How architect Eric J. Smith infused contemporary sophistication and Deco aesthetics into this New York City home by Charlotte McManus. The article is titled Inspiring West Village Townhouse Transformation.
Robb Report: New York City Townhouse Transformation Feature Article
Robb Report’s Emma Reynolds features Eric J. Smith in an article titled This New York City Townhouse Was Radically Transformed Into a Art-Filled Haven.
Veranda: 1920s New Jersey Home Feature Article
Veranda’s Celia Barbour features Eric J. Smith in an article titled Youthful Regency Is Reborn. She writes “Steven Gambrel and Eric J. Smith infuse electrifying color, invigorating pattern, and brilliant finishes to this home’s Art Deco roots”.
House Beautiful: Connecticut Home Featured as Design Inspiration
House Beautiful’s Associate Editor Elizabeth Andriotis features Eric J. Smith in an article titled How Eric Smith Designed a Connecticut Home That’s Any Nature Lover’s Dream.
Galerie: Westchester County, NY Poolhouse Featured
Author Jill Sieracki features Eric J. Smith in a recent article that highlights “cabanas that marry high design with indoor-outdoor functionality to bring a vacation-like experience closer to home”.
Luxe Magazine July/August Cover Reveal
Editor in Chief Pamela Jaccarino reveals the covers for the July/August editions which feature Greenwich home by architect Eric J. Smith. The home is featured on the National and Greater New York editions.
Eric J. Smith. Eric was hired to design a writer’s studio on his client’s bucolic Greenwich Connecticut property— a place in which the muse is always welcome.
52 Weeks of Design: Week Two
Eric J. Smith: The Interview
52 Weeks of Design is the creation of Alexa Hampton. Since 2002, Hampton has been selected by Architectural Digest as one of its ‘AD 100:’ the magazine’s directory of the world’s one hundred best interior designers and architects. She has been honored to receive similar accolades from publications such as House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Cottages & Gardens, The New York Times, New York Magazine and international titles, as well.
Eric J. Smith
If you could have a second home anywhere, where would you live? Pre-Covid – an apartment in Paris…. Post Covid – a croft in Scotland
What are three words to describe your style? 1. Livable. 2. Contemporary traditionalist 3. Balanced
Tell us about your childhood bedroom? My father worked for General Electric so we moved around a lot – 9 homes by the time I finished university – so there were a number of childhood bedrooms – none that aesthetically memorable – from an early bedroom with bunkbeds, shared with my younger brother, to grade school and having my own room on the lower floor of a 50’s split level home ( feeling a bit of independence being separate from the rest of the family) to high school and being the first child, to have a queen size bed and my own TV – a tiny B&W that I paid for from money I had earned working various jobs. In all though, a warm and nurturing childhood.
NY Times: In the Woods of Greenwich, a Studio for Writing Poetry
Inspired by Thoreau, a former investment banker has created a minimalist haven, with huge windows and 1,500 books.
GREENWICH, Conn. — Inspiration sometimes comes to the poet John Barr while he gazes at boulders beneath his new cantilevered writing studio here. Or as he strolls along its entry passageway lined in oak shelves, with 1,500 volumes of other people’s poetry organized alphabetically from Brontë to Yeats.
How to Avoid the 5 Worst Home Office Design Mistakes
We asked designers and architects for the inspiration-crushing gaffes they see in residential workspaces, and what to do instead. Plus: the most egregious home-office setups they’ve witnessed.
FOR A YEAR now we’ve all been getting copious advice on how to make our remote workspaces worthy of our toil. Why then, incredulous designers want to know, are they still seeing people’s unmade beds during video calls?
7 designers share what they’re looking forward to in 2021
The start of a new year always brings reflection on what we hope to do differently and the chance to set new resolutions and goals. We asked seven designers—Kylie Bodiya, Whitney Jones, General Judd, Mary Maloney, Kenzie Leon Perry, Ashley Ross and Eric J. Smith—what they’re planning on doing differently in their businesses in 2021.
What was the most important business lesson you learned in 2020?
The last year has been a challenge, to put it in the mildest of terms. With a pandemic, civil unrest and economic uncertainty, 2020 made it difficult to take care of yourself and your family, let alone run a small business. Despite all that, designers persevered. We asked 10 interior designers—Leah Alexander, Kylie Bodiya, Joe Ireland, Whitney Jones, Mary Maloney, Marguerite Rodgers, Ashley Ross, Eric J. Smith, Bradley Stephens and Julie Weber Gligor—to share the most important business lesson they learned in 2020.
The Poetry of Architecture
A Connecticut writer’s studio becomes a metaphor for creativity itself.
“You’re in a 180-degree glass box. You feel that you’re not tethered to the ground at that point.”
A pen. Some paper. A bit of inspiration. A quiet place to think. Of all the things a writer needs, it’s the last one that’s the hardest to come by.
Eric J Smith cantilevers Writer’s Studio over forested hillside in Connecticut
American architect Eric J Smith has used stone, oak and glass in this poet’s writing studio, to “reinforce its sense of belonging” in the Connecticut woods.
Located on a wooded property in Connecticut town Greenwich, Writer’s Studio was built for retired banker John Barr, who served as a longtime president of the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation. A bard himself, the client has published several books of poetry.
Eric J. Smith Renews Tradition in Classical Homes from Coast to Coast
The New York–based architect — former partner of interiors master David Easton — creates timeless residences that creatively update the past.
For an architect who specializes in crafting family houses meant to endure for generations, Eric J. Smith has never given much thought to his own design legacy. What gratifies him is the work itself — along with the approbation of his clients. Yet his achievements are notable.
MUST READ: RENEWING TRADITION
In the photography-filled pages of Renewing Tradition, architect Eric J. Smith reveals a design philosophy rooted in reverence, humility, and the tenets of classicism.
Architect Eric J. Smith loves the stories of houses. At a recent speaking appearance, he was describing the renovation of an old lake cottage he purchased in Michigan. The home is near a golf course and, over the decades, golfers had trudged up and down the stairwell in their golf shoes, leaving spike marks all over the stairs.
