Deborah Buck is an artist, designer, and tastemaker whose eclectic style skillfully mixes high and low aesthetic elements. She founded Buck House to showcase fine art and design alongside her collection of antiques, and has designed diverse spaces including homes, offices, and art galleries that bring together pieces from different eras, places and styles into resonant wholes. Buck is widely recognized for her unique point of view that emphasizes appeal, quality and integrity in all of her design work.

1. “Mixing decorating styles for that special blend known as eclectic
is a tricky endeavor... but in skilled hands, like those of Deborah Buck,
eclectic is a triumphant melding of disparate parts.”
– new york times magazine
DEBORAH BUCK

2. ABOUT
Deborah Buck is an artist, designer, and tastemaker who’s work has been repeatedly recognized by Elle
Décor, New York Times, and Architectural Digest. Her point of view is best described as a juxtaposition of
refined, eclectic, and irreverent tastes catered toward a luxury lifestyle. Mixing both high- and lowbrow, the
common denominator is appeal, quality, and integrity.
Deborah founded Buck House in 2001 with a vision to showcase fine art and design together with her highly
regarded collection of antiques. It quickly garnered it’s reputation as an inspirational hub for the creative
community with fine art exhibitions, design events and seminars.
She has recently exhibited her paintings at Chelsea’s Julie Saul Gallery and The Garrison Art Center and is
also active in academic circles. In 2007, Buck joined the faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts where
she teaches a seminar for Master’s thesis students. Buck also sits on The Board of Trustees of The Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Deborah Buck with Architectural Digest editor-in-
chief, Margaret Russell, and famed interior designer,
Charlotte Moss
Deborah Buck at the Tableau
launch party
Deborah Buck discussing her
book, Tableau

3. PREss
Deborah Buck is repeatedly
recognized for her unique point
of view and excellence in design
by the likes of New York Times,
Elle Décor, Architectural Digest,
Oprah, and Metropolitan Home,
among other top tier publications
and media outlets.
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“Buck’s carefully curated selection of art and antiques is one of the finest examples
of design from the 19th Century to the present.”
“Mixing decorating styles for that special blend known as eclectic is a tricky
endeavor... but in skilled hands, like those of Deborah Buck, eclectic is a
triumphant melding of disparate parts.”
“Buck is a woman who instinctively turns lemons into lemonade.”
“Her weekend place in Garrison, New York, a picturesque hamlet on the Hudson
River, is like a decorative-arts encyclopedia of the glam and the glorious.”

4. “If each piece has its own integrity of
design, and you’re the connecting thread,
then the room will have resonance. You
don’t need to have pieces from the same
place or period. It’s more important that
they have shape and form in common.”
– Deborah Buck, New York Times Magazine

5. farmhouse,
garrison, ny
This 19th-century farmhouse was
designed to be an eclectic array of
furnishings, art, and colors. The
décor compliments the original
wood beams, pine floors, and stone
walls without defaulting to rustic
and countrified or reducing it to a
minimalist manor.
featured in elle décor

6. farmhouse, garrison, ny

7. OffiCE
157 EAsT 86TH
nEW yORK
This humanitarian office space
needed to be comfortable but not
luxe. Deborah’s vision was to create
a serene workspace for the brilliant
and dedicated people who work
every day doing the nittygritty of
nonprofit work.
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8. office, 157 east 86th, new york

9. modern barn,
UPSTATE NEW YORK
This combination residential
and utilitarian dwelling uses
iconic geometry of the original
dilapidated barn that sat on its
footprint, while maximizing an
interior/exterior experience.

10. modern barn, upstate new york

11. UPPER EAsT siDE
APARTmEnT
A 5,000 square-foot Manhattan
apartment that composes
strong colors with an eclectic
juxtaposition of European and
Asian furnishings. Pieces range
from contemporary artwork to mid
century furniture to 18th century
vases.
featured in elle décor

12. upper east side apartment

13. winter hill,
non-profit OFFICES
upstate ny
The property, added to the National
Register of Historic Places in 1982,
has been a spiritual and cultural
center in the Hudson Highlands for
more then 120 years. Recently gut-
renovated and converted into offices
for the Hudson Highlands Land
Trust, The Garden Conservancy,
and the Shakespeare Society.

14. winter hill, non-profit offices, upstate ny

15. GALLERY
INSTALLATIONS
“With a cultivated eye, born from
her years as a visual artist ‘locked
in a studio’ Buck expends her
considerable energies and talents
admirably. Few could mount
Lalvani’s massive, mind-bending
metal and mirrored designs onto
an already highly vocal wall-space
with success.”
– Natalie Fasano,
The Curated Object
haresh lalvani: XtraD at buck house
seeing blue: an exhibition of fine and decorative arts at the gallery at buck house

16. manhattan glamour at the gallery at buck house
gem, an exhibition of treasures from the archive of the illustration house at the gallery at buck house

17. advertising, showhouse rooms, and publicity sets

18. TABLEAUS
“Deborah Buck makes art —
she paints and draws; she also
makes environments with her
art and others’ objects. She
calls them conversations. Her
tableaux are installations, not in
the museum sense of didactic
suspended animation, instead
they are transitory monuments —
moments in which form and color
are woven into a temporal story,
a tale of passions and obsessions
expressed through things.”
– Steven Heller

20. FABRICS
WALLCOVERINGS
An ongoing series of fabric and
wallcovering designs, merges
Deborah’s work in interior design
and fine-art. Elements from her
paintings, drawings, and branding
design are reinterpreted as fodder
for pattern repeats which are then
incorporated in distinct interiors.

22. FINE ART
“Her work is based on her
deeply sensual response to the
countless surfaces and textures
of the world around her and its
panoply of resplendent colors.
For Buck, what she chooses as
her themes are also an expression
of control, of agency, and it’s all
woven together with her life.”
– Lilly Wei, Art Critic
Independent Curator

23. www.buckhouse.com
www.deborahbuck.com
email: deborah@buckhouse.com
tel: 917.881.1775