Jonny Ribeiro’s Apartment if Full of Funky Secondhand Finds and Classic Furnishings

“My dwelling space appears to be like a bomb went off,” Jonny Ribeiro tells me over Zoom from his East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, apartment. His roommate has just moved out and every little thing is in flux. But that’s practically nothing new for Jonny, a designer, collector, and seller who is applied to an at any time-evolving domestic landscape. Most of what you see in his cozy town apartment is for sale.

“It’s a continuous rotation,” Jonny states of the cache of funky objects, furnishings, and artworks that fills the peculiar but charming floor floor apartment, which features parquet floors, 10-foot ceilings, and a skylight in his bedroom. (In a earlier life, it was a support repair shop for slot devices.) There’s a 1970s stone sculpture by Bernice Dritz-Epstein he picked up in Massachusetts and a odd 1980s ceramic confection, snagged at the Brimfield flea marketplace, all shown (or to be listed) on his new website, jonnyribeiro.com.

Jonny produced an eye for aged stuff while doing work in keep advancement at Ralph Lauren. His task was to canvas flea markets—like Brimfield, in Massachusetts Elephant’s Trunk, in Connecticut and Spherical Top, in Texas—for objects and furnishings to fill the closely stylized stores. “I uncovered the importance of levels, of telling a story,” he claims of the working experience that laid the groundwork for a passionate gathering observe, in which he gravitates toward sculptural pieces by mysterious makers that display put on and historical past. Right after Ralph Lauren, he labored for inside designer Sara Tale for a several several years, discovering the ins and outs of crafting residential spaces. But just right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he went out on his individual, reserving a several freelance design initiatives, amping up the shopping for and marketing, and even coming up with some home furniture of his possess.

“My enthusiasm is placing that excess layer in, styling, generating points photogenic,” points out Jonny, who brands himself as a “gun for hire” for everyone wanting to increase these ending touches to a project. Appropriately, he tends to focus on accessories, artworks, and textiles rather than main home furnishings parts, which, he feels, other sellers about the metropolis are by now accomplishing a good position of.

Sometimes Jonny thinks about the deeper indicating of the matters around him, indicating, “I think we’re really just custodians for these parts. We’re seeking just after them, offering them new context, and I think that is what’s so desirable about acquiring these factors and promoting them—someone is heading to repurpose regardless of what you sell them into their world and make it a little something unique.”