New York City — Interiors & Objects
ChancelStudio
Creating distinctive interiors and objects from what’s already at hand — before it’s discarded, replaced, or forgotten.
Custom Commissions
Est. New York
Est. New York
Creating distinctive interiors and objects from what’s already at hand — before it’s discarded, replaced, or forgotten.
Before the chair gets replaced. Before the lampshade gets thrown away. Before the leftover fabric gets discarded — Chancel Studio sees what it could become.
Working with existing pieces, overlooked materials, and deadstock fabrics, we transform them through craft, reinvention, and an eye shaped by textiles, pattern, and the visual arts.
Buying new is rarely necessary and almost never the most interesting choice. Beauty does not depend on pristine materials or limitless resources. It depends on perception — on the ability to see what something already is, and what it could still become.
Custom commissions — upholstery, lampshades, and decorative work
Each commission starts with a conversation about what’s already at hand — and what it might still become.
Transforming plain forms into upholstered pieces, including custom headboards, with the kind of beauty and presence that can quietly define a room.
↗Covering lampshades in fabric so they bring atmosphere, texture, and feeling into a space, not just soften light.
↗Hand-applied stencil work that adds pattern, detail, and a considered decorative layer to walls, furniture, and surfaces.
↗Recognizing what a piece or room could become before anything is made, so the work begins with clarity and real conviction.
↗The inspiration comes from artists and makers who have always worked this way — El Anatsui, who makes monumental tapestries from bottle caps and aluminum foil; chefs who transform overlooked ingredients into something worth remembering; jewelers and weavers whose materials are fragments, offcuts, and found objects.
Across these practices, the same belief holds: beauty does not depend on pristine materials or limitless resources. It depends on perception — on the ability to see what something already is, and what it could still become.
Chancel Studio is built on a conviction that buying new is rarely necessary and almost never the most interesting choice.
Tell us about the piece, the room, or the material you’re working with. We’ll take it from there.