Karen Asprea is a New York City based interior designer with a townhouse studio located in TriBeCa.
Over her 15 year career, Karen has focused on creating curated, luxury design for residential developments, commercial spaces and private homes. Her resume encompasses over 5 million square feet of new residential construction and 450,000 square feet of commercial build out.
Karen has designed for some of the industries leading real estate developers such as Gemini Rosemont, The Carlyle Group, Somerset Properties and Solow Building Company. She has designed alongside noted architects such as BBB, SOM and ODA to create stunning residences, lobbies and amenity spaces.
Karen Asprea’s studio was founded in 2017 and provides a multidisciplinary approach to interior design, with a focus on luxury residential developments. Karen and her team deliver a streamlined approach to design with a deep understanding on the development and construction process at a large scale.
Laying a strong career foundation working for Costas Kondylis and Kondylis Design, Karen learned the intricacies of the industry early in her career. She later joined one of the largest architecture firms in New York and created an interior design department, becoming one of the youngest and only female managing partner her previous firm.
Karen designs spaces that are meant to evolve with time, use and human interaction. The daily impacts of spaces being lived in, sat on and touched aids in the aging process and enhances the beauty of natural materials over their life cycle.
Karen’s work is comprised of natural materials that are meant to age with time, extending the life cycle and adding to the sustainability of every project she works on.
Using tonal palettes, she creates elegant yet minimal spaces with unexpected material combinations.