Katie Leede & Company

In tandem with her design team, Katie Leede enjoys collaborating with her clients to create lush, livable interiors that reflect their personal spirit. Katie is known for her bold use of color and love of texture and beautiful textiles. Katie especially enjoys bringing a contemporary edge to traditional homes and a feeling of old-world comfort to more modern houses through the use of antiques, art, and great furniture. Her goal is to create magical places where time stands still and her clients love to be. “I love figuring out what makes my clients feel the most excited and at home in their surroundings and then pushing them a little past their comfort zones into an expanded understanding of what is beautiful and what will improve with age. “ KATIE LEEDE has designed highly customized homes all over the country- from Santa Monica to Austin to New York and Maine. Known for her collaborative spirit, Katie seeks to reveal through her work each client's unique take on color, form, beauty and what makes home a real home. Katie's work has appeared in national and regional magazines, including ELLE DECOR, House Beautiful, Veranda, and Traditional Home among others and has been featured on numerous blogs such as Remodelista, Stylebeat, So Haute, Habitually Chic, COCOCOZY, and more. In 2010, Traditional Home nominated Katie as one of "Ten Young Designers to Watch", and in 2011 House Beautiful cited her as one of "Ten More Designers who create a Global, Sophisticated Look." In 2008, Katie launched a growing line of fresh, timeless textiles that celebrate the artisanal brilliance of iconic, far flung cultures like those of Egypt and Japan. Visit the entire collection on her website at KatieLeede.com.

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Katie Leede principal

Katie Leede is the founder and president of Katie Leede and
Company Studio (a.k.a. Digs By Katie, Inc.), a sought-after
interior design firm specializing in residential and boutique
commercial projects, and Katie Leede and Company, her
expanding line of textiles and products for the home.
Katie came to the world of design by osmosis, having grown
up in wonderfully stylish homes in West Texas, on the snowy
peaks of Aspen, the bright lights of Manhattan, and-most
significantly-along the rocky shores of Mt. Desert Island in
Maine. Summers spent at her family’s former summer
“cottage” Skylands in Seal Harbor were an education in
living graciously and, more than any other experience, helped
forge Katie’s understanding of what the myriad elements are
that turn a well-built house into a magical home that
endlessly inspires and nourishes those lucky enough to live
there. At Skylands, Katie learned the tricks of the trade from
her self-schooled mother in the art of mixing handsome
custom upholstery pieces with antiques and modern art with
traditional landscapes and picked up her knowledge of “how
to” make the best bed, serve the perfect cocktail, and set an
elegant table, all tools that now come in handy when advising
her interior design clients how to outfit a house today.
After graduating from Phillips Academy Andover and
Dartmouth College with a B.A. in theater, Katie pursued
acting and hat design before starting a family and moving to
Los Angeles. In 2002, she founded Digs By Katie, Inc. to meet
the demand from her friends to decorate homes with the same
easy flair she lived with herself for their own growing families
in Bel Air, Brentwood, Santa Monica and Santa Barbara.
Recognized for her natural ability to create comfortable,
timeless rooms that are not only beautiful but functional and
artful to live in, Katie quickly expanded her firm to take on
commissions in Colorado, Austin, New York and Maine.
Each project Katie and her committed team takes on- be it a
lofty lake house, an exquisite jewel box apartment or a
rugged villa- is built and designed with each particular client
and their individual tastes and specific needs kept top of
mind. Great attention is paid to proportion, architectural
details, and the careful curation of furnishings, objects, and
art to suit. The burning goal always being to create beloved
homes- the absolute favorite spot- for family and friends to
gather and enjoy for years to come.
Katie proudly serves on the boards of The Decorators Club of
New York and the Addison Gallery of American Art at
Phillips Academy at Andover. She is also honored to be on
the advisory council for Farrow & Ball.
Katie Leede’s work is featured consistently in national and
regional magazines, including ELLE DECOR, World of
Interiors, House Beautiful, Veranda, and Traditional Home
and on numerous blogs. In 2010, Traditional Home
nominated Katie as one of “Ten Young Designers to Watch,”
and in 2011 House Beautiful cited her as one of “Ten More
Designers who create a Global, Sophisticated Look.” Katie
has also appeared as a designer on the TV program
“Open House New York.” Katie currently lives in Soho
and Long Island with her high school sweetheart, five “Brady
Bunch” kids and beloved dog Noodles.