Design-led studio
Precise thinking, for homes and the spaces between.
One studio to imagine your space, build it with our own hands, and carry it through to the last detail. Design, build, and management together, and a single point of trust.
The finest spaces feel inevitable, as though they could only ever have been this way. Arriving there takes more than a beautiful drawing. It takes a team that holds the idea whole, from the first conversation to the final coat, and protects every decision along the way. At Penrose, the people who design your project are the people who build it. That continuity is where craft is won, and it is why our clients spend their days enjoying the vision rather than managing it.
What you can count on
Three promises, and we keep all three.
One partner, from first sketch to final detail.
A single team and a single point of contact, accountable for the whole of the work.
Your design, carried through the build.
The people who draw your project are the people who build it, so the intent lives all the way to the last detail.
A clear budget and a clear schedule.
Costs tracked in the open, and a timeline you can plan your life around.
What we do
Design
We design with intent and restraint, shaping light, proportion, and material into rooms that feel calm and considered. Every choice is made with the build already in mind, so what we draw becomes exactly what you live in.
Build
As licensed, insured builders, we bring our own designs to life with the care of the people who imagined them. The detail on the page becomes the detail in the room.
Manage
On projects that call for it, we act as your owner's representative, holding scope, budget, trades, and schedule so you always have one team accountable for the result and one number to call.
Everything under one roof
When design and build share a single team, the vision travels intact, carried by the same hands that first imagined it. You have one relationship, one standard, and the quiet confidence that the person who promised the result is the person delivering it. For our clients, that is the real luxury: a project that feels calm, certain, and cared for, and a finished space that matches the one they pictured.
Six stages, each with a clear deliverable, so you always know exactly where the work and the budget stand. Open each stage to see what you receive.
- Discovery session and site visit
- Written project brief: goals, scope, constraints
- Feasibility view and preliminary budget range
- High-level programme and timeline
- Engagement agreement
- Concept design package: plans, key sections, references
- Spatial strategy and the design's point of view
- Material, finish and lighting direction
- Design narrative
- Preliminary cost plan
- Developed plans, elevations and sections, dimensioned
- Lighting and reflected ceiling concept
- Confirmed material and finish palette
- Joinery and millwork concepts
- Updated cost plan and programme
- Consultant coordination (structure, MEP as needed)
- Full construction drawing set, produced with our licensed architect and engineer partners
- Shop-ready millwork and joinery details
- FF&E and finishes schedules with specifications
- Permit and filing documentation, filed by a licensed architect or engineer of record
- Site setup, protection and mobilization
- Construction by our licensed team and trusted trades
- Weekly progress reporting and site supervision
- Transparent budget and change tracking
- Quality control and mock-ups
- One point of contact throughout
- Punch list completed to a high finish
- Final clean, styling and installation
- As-built drawings, warranties and O&M handover
- Aftercare and post-completion support
Trusted throughout New York
Private homeowners, design studios, and co-op boards across the city trust Penrose with work they care about deeply. We are licensed and insured, and references are glad to speak on our behalf.
For designers and architects
If you design at this level, you already know that the finish depends on the builder. We partner with studios as the build and project-management arm they can trust: you keep full command of the vision, and we carry the permitting, sequencing, trades, and budget so your design reaches the room exactly as you intended. We would love to be the team you call.
About
Penrose Design Lab is a design-led studio in New York, working on high-end homes and a select few design-led commercial and hospitality spaces. Our experience reaches across projects in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Monaco. We are licensed and insured, and we keep design and build together by conviction. We take on a small number of projects at a time, so each one receives the attention that precise work deserves.