Amy Pigliacampo Loves Neon Signs, Secret Staircases + More

Interior designer Amy Pigliacampo creates modern, warm, and alluring spaces with an emphasis on playful colours, contrast, muted tones, and organic shapes. She describes her approach as subtractive, peeling back the layers of an area to seek out the soul of each home. Amy’s resulting modern rebuilds use thoughtful materials to boost – not overwhelm – the space underneath.

Amy’s appreciation for textiles runs deep, and he or she names her collection of vintage Indian cotton dresses as her most treasured possession. “A stylist that I worked for years ago introduced me to those gorgeous things, and I’ve hunted and purchased them obsessively,” she said. “The fabrics are so soft and thin that it’s like wearing gauze; you sneeze the fallacious way or pass too closely to a lever door knob and you’ll be able to rip them in half. I needed to stop wearing them for some time when my children were babies because they’d grab onto me and pull. They’re so fragile and exquisite and difficult to seek out within the wild, most of them have been devoured up and are being sold at crazy prices. Every on occasion I’ll still go down a rabbit hole on eBay and discover a special one.”

Amy Pigliacampo

That love began early on, when Amy first saw the Marc Jacobs collection for Perry Ellis Spring 1993. “I had had my Vogue subscription for perhaps a 12 months at that time in middle school and still remember the Steven Meisel shoot with Naomi Campbell and Kristen McMenamy,” she recalls. “It was so wildly casual and different than anything I had ever seen before. I wanted combat boots so badly and I used to be so young at that time that I didn’t even understand find out how to find them.”

After spending a few years living in Latest York City and Los Angeles, Amy traded it in for an enormous yard to boost her kids in Boulder, Colorado, where she designed projects from Denver to Aspen, while also working remotely with clients from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Recently, Amy and her husband, Corey, purchased their eternally home on a few acres in Topanga Canyon, California.

As a mother herself, Amy also focuses on beautiful yet functional design for growing families and on a regular basis life. When she’s not emailing herself or leaving voice notes of future ideas, she could be found watching dollhouse furniture tutorials together with her kids. “We’re obsessive about this incredible woman, Cath, and her channel The Square to Spare on YouTube,” Amy said. “They’re essentially the most mesmerizing and galvanizing videos, we love them and we have now made just a few of her more easy designs. Her voice is so soothing and what she creates is next level.”

This week, Amy Pigliacampo is joining us for Friday Five!

Photo: Cactus Collective

1. Neon Sign Graveyard

One among my favorite places on earth, I saw it in a Saks Fifth Avenue catalog perhaps 20 years ago and had no idea what it was. I figured it out around 2008 and desired to get married there, however it wasn’t allowed in 2010. We got over it and got here back to go to three more times, and on a whim looked into renewing our vows there over Christmas 2022. That they had one opening that coincided with passing through Vegas – so I got my wish. The vintage fonts and the fallen grandeur of those creations move me each time. I like the bits and pieces of various time periods and eras in Las Vegas, but in addition the faded colours and modern fonts and sort treatments bring me a lot joy. My husband was first a graphic designer, so we have now a shared love of typography.

Photo: Amy Pigliacampo

2. Olympic Peninsula

I visited this area on a road trip with my husband before we had children and however this past summer with them. It was magical the primary time and extraordinary to re-experience it with them. I like Port Townsend, Lake Crescent, the Log Cabin Resort, and the Hoh Rainforest – the vibe there’s so specific and the colours are practically fluorescent.

Photo: Amy Pigliacampo

3. Secret Stairs

I purchased a book a few years ago called Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles by Charles Flemming, a author for the LA Times that documented urban hikes around many neighborhoods in town. Completely fascinating and stuffed with curious and exquisite architecture and bits of neighborhoods you could possibly never experience in a automotive, these staircases are my favorite thing in regards to the city and stuffed with inspiration.

Photo: Amy Pigliacampo

4. Coney Island

My husband took me out to Coney Island early on in our relationship after which he proposed there in front of the Wonder Wheel. It was a component of Latest York that I didn’t know until I met him and I fell completely in love with the history, the colours, the kitsch, the mermaids, and naturally, HIM. Makes me so completely satisfied to think in regards to the time we spent there and I at all times find something recent to understand every time we visit.

Photo: Amy Pigliacampo

5. Airstream

I actually have at all times been fascinated with these classic metal campers. I’m not one for tent camping, but I like road trips and wondered if I could ever turn out to be a individual that likes to travel this fashion (my parents had a camper for some time after I was a child, a few of my earliest memories). We bought one almost on a whim in 2021 and we became a family that caravans. I learned lots about myself during these trips and wouldn’t trade them for the world. Best investment ever.

Work by Amy Pigliacampo:

Camp Altezza / A Seventies Rocky Mountain Cabin with my tackle a contemporary Swiss chalet at 11,000 feet. Photo: David Lauer

Nobo Net Zero A dilapidated foreclosure in Boulder CO that we become a contemporary family home regardless of multiple setbacks, including a fireplace. Photo: David Lauer

Ironic Meets Iconic We brought daring personality to a remodeled brownstone in Brooklyn. Photo: Corey Szopinski