"One could say the existence of Charlap Hyman & Herrero is largely due to a series of fortunate coincidences. When Adam Charlap Hyman hired Rhode Island School of Design classmate Andre Herrero to photograph his apartment in Providence years ago (imagine a frothy canopy bed, pictures hung from thick black ribbons), the two quickly hit it off. A few years after graduation—Charlap Hyman had worked for Ralph Lauren, and 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 work on 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. From a specific room by Jean-Michel Frank to the grotto scene in Luchino Visconti’s 1973 film Ludwig, “our ideas come from all different places,” Charlap Hyman has said."