"When Adam Charlap Hyman hired Rhode Island School of Design classmate Andre Herrero to photograph his apartment in Providence (picture a frothy canopy bed, pictures hung from thick, black ribbons), the two hit it off. A few years after graduation—Charlap Hyman had worked for Ralph Lauren; Herrero for SANAA, David Chipperfield Architects, and SO–IL—the interior designer and the architect joined forces. Gallery-design jobs for Salon 94, Nina Johnson, and Leila Heller led to retail projects (Aesop, Moda Operandi, MZ Wallace) and a handful of private residences. The duo also curate exhibitions, design opera stage sets, and release product lines, taking an academic approach to every job and extracting gems of inspiration from dusty corners of aesthetic history."