By Ryan Shoushani

FURNITURE+DESIGN+ART+HOSPITALITY

North of Madison Square Park lies New York City’s preeminent high end design companies. Ddc, Fendi and B&B Italia are just a few of the many posh design houses that lie in the Nomad Design District. Adjacent to the Flatiron District and the Fashion District is a nexus of artists, designers and windows to the world of design.

From its inception as a unique destination for artisanal Persian rugs, which once lined the corridors of today’s high end design houses, the Nomad Design District has been a place where design meets entrepreneurship. The community throughout its transformation has been a place that supported creativity and artistic changes.

Its centralized location and unique history is what called the first of the major design companies over from the well established clientele on the upper east side, to inhabit the stores formerly occupied by the Persian rug dealers. Today only a handful of the rug dealers remain as boutique hotels, high end furniture stores, and European designers have transformed the area into one of America’s most prominent design destinations.