The latest venture of Steve Hoedemaker and Tim Pfeiffer, Housewright Gallery offers high-end designer home goods, artwork and furniture.
Hoedemaker Pfeiffer is a design studio focused on the creation of space that reveals the human spirit and connects their clients to the world in which they live. Through the interweaving of architecture, interiors, and landscape, Hoedemaker Pfeiffer strives to reveal what is essential in the human experience. Co-founded by Steve Hoedemaker, AIA and designer Tim Pfeiffer, the firm is rooted in residential design, bespoke commercial and lifestyle projects and has been recognized with numerous awards. The design duo recently founded Housewright Gallery. The showroom features eclectic one-of-a-kind furniture, artwork, textiles, lighting, and objects. It was born as a natural extension of the duo’s passion for creating homes and hunting for unique pieces to fill them. This part gallery, part showroom is located in Seattle’s Georgetown Design District, a few steps away from their firm. Learn more about Tim Pfeiffer and how his mind ticks in today’s Maker Monday.
Acting as a testament to the designer and architect duo’s astute eye, the Housewright Gallery gives shoppers the opportunity to get a preview of the quality of work that they provide and their attention to the details.
Andrew Joseph: Describe your design style as if you were explaining it to someone who cannot see.
Tim Pfeiffer: Imagine multiple layers of textural shape and form that surround you in reassuring physical and emotional comfort… an unexpected familiarity of found space with a sensory memory of home.
AJ: What is something you hope to see trending in design in the future?
TP: The continued eclectic integration of heritage furnishings, including ‘brown furniture’ and classical paintings in the mix of contemporary environments.
Showcasing industry-leading, high-end design objects and furniture is the manifesto for Housewright Gallery.
AJ: What are your ideal weekend plans?
TP: Friday at my family beach house with my partner Matt. A silent morning walk on the beach with my dog, a coffee and book overlooking the water, then tending the garden, out paddle boarding with a thermos of margaritas, and mooring to the buoy to float and watch the sunset together. A late simple grill and dinner with a couple of island friends or family to wrap up the evening.
AJ: How would you describe your personal style?
TP: Curious amalgamation of workwear with neo-Edwardian drape.
Housewright gallery is committed to featuring little-known master craftsmen and their works and is an outlet for artisans to share their wares with the Pacific Northwest design community.
AJ: What are you most proud of?
TP: A four-story 1875 corner Brownstone on the East River in Brooklyn that I had the insane pleasure of reimagining for myself as home with a favorite bar and restaurant on the ground floor. Achilles Heel is still in operation, but a music label bought the building from me to use as their headquarters.
AJ: What are some of the podcasts you listen to and why?
TP: Shared experience has my ear. Talk Art, Russell Tovey and Robert Diament hold conversations with artists around the world to illuminate the passions and process of individual artists’ practice. Super Soul, Oprah’s conversations focused on life’s spiritual and emotional journey to love, health, and contentment. SmartLess, with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, comedic, refreshing commentary and conversation deliver insights from surprise celebrated guests.
Steve Hoedemaker is a third-generation Seattle native whose education and travel have taken him around the world but he always finds his way back to life in the city and a farm in the San Juan Islands. Steve has an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and a Masters in Architecture from the University of Washington. His work explores the relationship between indoors and out, modern and vernacular, and the relationship of people to buildings and buildings to site.
Like what you see? Get it first with a subscription to aspire design and home magazine.