Roman and Williams

The bar at Café Altro Paradiso, New York City

Design / 3 May 2018

New York creatives recommend where to eat and drink during design week

Manhattan is often difficult to navigate with its sheer abundance of urban hangouts, especially during New York Design Week when schedules are tightly packed. The Big Apple has always had a high turnover with numerous bars and restaurants opening up...

Travel / 12 Mar 2018

A laidback and cosy setting at new West Village spot Simon & The Whale

From Gabriel Stulman, the restaurateur behind a handful of spots in New York’s West Village, Simon & The Whale – a name inspired by the whale-patterned gifts given to his toddler Simon – is a corner street-facing neighbourhood restaurant on...

Travel / 12 Mar 2018

Roman and Williams brings free-spirited American craftsmanship to Freehand New York

The playfully irreverent hotel brand, Freehand, has fittingly brought its free-spirited aesthetic to the heart of the Big Apple. Occupying the historic George Washington Hotel in the city’s Flatiron neighbourhood, originally built in 1928, Freehand New York exudes the same...

Design / 27 Dec 2017

Roman and Williams’ new creative emporium is restaurant, library, design gallery and more

The quixotic, evocative world of Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch has finally become something everyone can experience with the opening of Roman and Williams Guild NY – a two-floor design emporium located on the fringe of Soho. Like the design...

Travel / 27 Oct 2016

New York firm Roman and Williams brings cinematic flair to a Paris brasserie

The sign of a good Parisian brasserie is its ability to always deliver, whether its lunch at four o’clock, an after-work drink or to while away the afternoon on the terrace over an espresso or a glass of wine. The newly...

Architecture / 21 Mar 2016

Roman and Williams’ Fitzroy is the latest luxury addition to NYC’s High Line

Ever since it opened, back in 2009, the High Line has catalysed a flurry of real estate development along the corridor it carves through Manhattan’s Meatpacking and Chelsea neighborhoods. There’s the Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum, and a long list of...

Design / 12 Oct 2015

Top 20 interior designers who know how to create sublime spaces

From delicate and muted minimalism to eye-popping, era-hopping fancies, here are the designers who know how to mix, match, edit, illuminate, decorate and otherwise create sublime spaces… To celebrate our 200th issue, we decided to take our Power 100 and...

Design / 7 Jul 2015

Side project: the making of Handmade 2015’s ‘The Eater’ credenza, by Roman and Williams

We knew they would be busy putting the finishing touches to their interiors for the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel (see W*196), but we had to ask: would Roman and Williams, the creative duo behind the wave of industrial-edged interiors that...

Ex-film-set designers outfitting hotels with Americana