The former fashion designer channels his artist’s eye into Somerset House, the interiors firm he co-founded with his wife, Haley Loewenthal, in 2020. This week, they open a new, 10,000-square-foot showroom in Long Island City’s Metropolitan Building, originally constructed in 1909 and now being restored as a creative hub. Part vintage gallery, part design studio, part restoration workshop, Somerset House’s new space embodies Eckstein’s eye for contrast: Italian and Danish modern alongside primitive and baroque, all under vaulted skylights and 15-foot ceilings. Here, he shares his style obsessions.
