Shana Sigmond Studios is a New York based practice devoted to the art of visual storytelling. The studio moves with range and precision between interior architecture and decoration; bespoke furnishings, lighting, materials, and hardware; creative collaborations spanning art, culture, and fashion. Guided by an expansive library of references, a reverence for craftsmanship and tactility, an enduring affinity for art across centuries, and a literary sensibility shaped over Shana’s nearly three decades career, the studio creates expressive worlds with intention and clarity. We do not merely design, we compose.

Shana’s path began in the world of film, following her studies in Art History. She helped shape visual worlds for Academy Award–winning productions, working alongside directors such as David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Zemeckis, Tony Scott, and Cameron Crowe on films including Ocean's Eleven, Traffic, Almost Famous, Wag the Dog, Outbreak, Forrest Gump, and JFK. Cinematic design is inherently ephemeral;  sets exist only for a moment, yet they demand fully realized universes rendered with complete authenticity. That pursuit sparked a desire to create environments that endure, that hold memory and emotion, that become lived experiences.

A move from Los Angeles to New York opened the next chapter. At National Design Award–winning firms Peter Marino Architect and Roman and Williams, Shana's vision steered the creation and realization of a wide breadth of acclaimed projects: private residences featured in World of Interiors; cultural landmarks such as Ace Hotel, Hotel Emma, Chicago Athletic Association, The Standard High Line, and High Line Hotel; celebrated restaurants including Andrew Carmellini’s Lafayette and Facebook’s (now Meta) Commissary; luxury boutiques for Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Christian Dior, Celine, Loewe, and Hublot, each deliberately conceived to seduce the eye, ignite imagination, and elevate retail to the realm of experience.

Her extensive expertise then led her to WeWork, where she defined a unified global visual language, guiding multidisciplinary teams through a period of extraordinary international expansion, translating a vast, fast-moving organization into a coherent and resonant spatial identity.

Today, after more than twenty years designing iconic environments, Shana channels her instincts to tell stories through space — stories created for the people who inhabit them. Whether your home, boutique, hotel, restaurant, or workplace, the studio crafts space imbued with history, sentiment, artistry, and narrative depth, where material, light, texture, proportion, and atmosphere converge to form living worlds that feel innately timeless and unmistakably personal, capable of imprinting themselves on the senses long after one has left them.