“A room can have impeccable taste and still know how to misbehave.”
about
Smith & Proper approaches interiors as a conversation between architecture, the history of a home, culture, and the people who inhabit it. We favor rooms that are deeply considered but never overly composed, where good proportion and fine craftsmanship sit comfortably beside wit, patina, contradiction, and the unexpected.
Our work draws from the past without recreating it. We borrow freely from different periods, layering collected furniture, expressive textiles, art, objects, and architectural details to create rooms that feel personal, compelling, and as though they developed over time. Restraint and ornament, polish and wear, old and new all have a place. We care about visual interest, how materials and furnishings play against one another, and whether each element adds character, tension, or meaning to the room.
The result is an interior with structure and looseness, pedigree and personality. Cultivated, not precious. Considered, not overly serious. Proper enough to know the rules, but not always inclined to follow them.
Brandon Smith, Principal Designer
Brandon Smith is a decorator and founder of Smith & Proper. His approach to interior design is shaped by more than a decade in commercial and editorial photography, which sharpened his eye for composition, proportion, color, and atmosphere, along with an instinct for the details that give a room its character.
That experience now informs a practice led as much by instinct as by editing. Brandon is particularly interested in the point where beauty meets everyday life: rooms shaped around the lives lived in them, with space for collections, books, art, entertaining, daily rituals, and all the evidence of actually living there. His work is grounded in curiosity, a strong visual eye, and the belief that a memorable room should reveal something about the people who call it home. The result is interiors that feel thoughtfully composed, distinctly individual, and confident enough to make a scene.
