Kris Fuchs at her Water Mill home on Mecox Bay

 

 

 

Lifelong Hamptons resident Kris Fuchs is the co-founder of  SUITE New York, Manhattan’s leading modern and contemporary furniture and design showroom. After years of collecting mid-century modern furniture, Kris turned her passion into a business eight years ago.  Since then, SUITE New York has become the go-to spot for top architects and interior designers.  The company has worked on projects such as the New York Public Library, Lincoln Center, Alain Ducasse’s Benoit, and the apartments at the Gramercy, to name a few.  SUITE New York has furnished many Hamptons homes, including her own!  Check out this KDHamptons Design Diary of Kris’ gorgeous waterfront home on Mecox Bay in Water Mill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kris also sits on the board of the Museum of Arts and Design, and has organized the Pink Swan Project and Pink Wishbone Project, which organized top interior and fashion designers and architects to redo iconic chairs which are then auctioned off to benefit Breast Cancer research Foundation.  Having moved to the East End as a teenager, Kris now spends the vast majority of her free time here year-round.

 

 

 

 

Kris with her friend and partner Maria Sepulveda

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  How many years have you lived in the Hamptons?

Kris Fuchs: I have lived in the Hamptons since 1979, and graduated from high school out here. In 1981, I moved to New York City but am always a local at heart.

 

 

KDHamptons: How long have you lived on Mecox Bay?

Kris: I have resided on Mecox Bay in Water Mill for nearly twenty years. William Georgis was my interior designer when I moved in and I am still in love with the timeless interior.

 

 

 

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  You love to collect art, who are some of your favorite painters?

Kris: The art is fun and playful. There is work by Sam Francis, Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine and Donald Bachelor and I love my my huge black snowman by Gary Hume.

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  How did you get into the design business?

Kris: Years ago I fell in love with design — the objects and iconic pieces and began to a collect, one piece at a time. I entered the design business in 2003 and opened my own business, SUITE New York in 2006, with best friend of thirty-one years, Maria Sepulveda. The design world has so many facets. Every day is interesting and stimulating and satisfies my creative side in so many ways.

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  Who is your dream client?

Kris: A dream client can be any type of corporate client or a single residential client who understands the quality and integrity behind a design collection, just like in fashion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  Please tell our readers more about the Pink Swan Project?

Kris: We invited nineteen leading interior designers, architects and fashion icons to customize the Fritz Hansen Swan Chair designed by the legendary Arne Jacobsen in personal homage to BCRF and its worldwide initiatives. The designers’ Swan chairs are unbelievable and all so different! Each of the designers went above and beyond anything we could have imagined.  The Pink Swan Chairs will be auctioned off during October — Breast Cancer awareness month — on charitybuzz.com.  This year, the Pink Project has gone global. Breast Cancer Awareness Month will kick off on September 29th at Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, in London. Elizabeth Hurley and Larry Gagosian will co-host the event, featuring three Swan chairs and selections from Evelyn Lauder’s ongoing photographic series of lady head vase portraits entitled “The Salon Beauties.” The designs will then be on view on a weekly rotation at the Gagosian Shop on Madison Avenue as well as at the SUITE New York showroom.

 

 

KDHamptons:  Why is this project so close to your heart?

Kris: This project is close to me for a variety of reasons. First, I have two beautiful daughters and I hope there is a cure so that they and their children can live knowing that this disease is beatable. It is something every woman thinks about at some point. I am also passionate about this project because it exposes such great talent within the design industry. The designers are asked to create these magnificent works of art and explore their own creative resources. Some of the designs are utilitarian and some are sculptures. They will all be auctioned off at the end of October on charitybuzz.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  What is you favorite Hamptons restaurant? Do you have a guilty pleasure foodwise?

Kris: My house is my favorite restaurant, and Tate’s bake shop is my guilty pleasure, hands down!

 

 

 

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  Do you have favorite Hamptons beach?

Kris: Cameron beach A.K.A “The Cut,” in Bridgehampton

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  What do you love most about what you do?

Kris: I love the synergy with the art, music, fashion and philanthropic worlds, how it all crosses over. There is so much talent out there and I love watching the creative process. Whether it someone who designs rugs, a new technique in furniture making or working with a real estate developer on a new project, every day is different.

 

 

 

Kris with best friend and fellow Hamptonite, jewelry designer Jennifer Miller

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  Describe your ideal weekend for KDHamptons readers?

Kris: I arrive on Thursday night and leave at the last possible hour on Sunday night. I start each day with a fitness boot camp with the owner of AS One, who happens to be my boyfriend!, then restorative yoga with my favorite yoga teacher of thirteen years Jessica Bellafatto, owner of Kama Deva. After my workout, a delicious lunch with friends made by Rick Sullivan, my private chef. The rest of the day is all about the poolside until sundown. Repeat until Sunday night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

KDHamptons:  What do you do on a rainy day in the Hamptons?

Kris: I love jigsaw puzzles, 1,000 plus pieces!

 

*Visit the SUITE New York website HERE