Bradfield specializes in creating daring, elegant, and luxurious residences and offices for an international clientele. Among this roster of projects for Fortune 500 clients is the major design overhaul of the Gertrude Vanderbilt-Whitney estate in Old Westbury, Long Island and the restoration of the late King Hussein's mansion in Maryland.
"Functional opulence" is the key to his designs, which draw inspiration from the Orient, African Primitivism, and Art Deco. The work incorporates fine art and antiques with high tech, attaching the same sculptural value to utility objects as to important pieces of art. The look, drawn from the twentieth century, results in intensely comfortable and superbly elegant environments that delight eye, mind and body alike.
The company has designed palatial residences, private jets and yachts, and unique office environments for clients throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe and the Orient. "Silent celebrities" is a term coined by the firm that fervently guards the privacy of its clients who include some of the most prominent families in the world.
Bradfield has received on four successive occasions the coveted recognition by Architectural Digest magazine in their "AD 100" in January 2000 , January 2002, January 2004, and January 2007 as one of the top designers in the world. And most recently, he was honoured in the Architectural Digest January 2005 issue as 'Dean of American Design.'
Bradfield is recognized in the book America's Elite 1000 - The Ultimate List, Millennium Issue, "the Inside Story Behind America's Top 1000 Names"; published by Codogan Publications.
Initially working with McMillen, Inc. and later long time partner of the late Jay Spectre, the work of Bradfield's company appears, in addition, in the pages of leading design magazines including Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Elle Décor, Veranda, Classic Home, House Beautiful, Metropolitan Home, and the New York Times. Bradfield has won numerous design awards, and has lectured at the Smithsonian. In addition to the Kips Bay Decorator's Show House, his frequent guest appearances on television shows have included CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" and HGTV's "Interiors by Design" & "Design for Living".
Bradfield has received on four successive occasions the coveted recognition by Architectural Digest magazine in their "AD 100" in January 2000 , January 2002, January 2004, and January 2007 as one of the top designers in the world. And most recently, he was honoured in the Architectural Digest January 2005 issue as 'Dean of American Design.'
Geoffrey Bradfield has homes in New York City and Palm Beach. He is co-author of POINT OF VIEW: DESIGN BY JAY SPECTRE (1991), author of CELEBRATION: CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK (1993) and a book showcasing his work of the last decade, GEOFFREY BRADFIELD - DEFINING MILLENNIUM MODERN was published in 2004.
At right: The centre of operations, the New York Headquarters on 61st Street and Park Avenue.
At left: Design associates and key players - eight designers together with support staff keep the selective number of private commissions, commercial designs and follow-up details running on time and on track. To Bradfield and his entire creative team, the future appears limitless in possibilities for new designs, new applications, and bold new creativity.
