Rayman Boozer Designed This Apartment Virtually, While the Clients Were Quarantined 400 Miles Away
Pinterest boards and Zooms saved the day.
By
Carly Olson and Produced by Robert Rufino.
Apr 8, 2021
Manu Rodríguez
This New York City apartment marked a new chapter for interior designer Rayman Boozer: It was the first time he never
actually met his clients in person. The homeowners, a couple with three young boys, hired Boozer’s firm, Apartment 48, to decorate the two-bedroom, two-bath pied-à-terre on the Lower East Side just days before COVID-19 shut the city down in March 2020. Showroom visits were replaced with Zoom sessions; mood boards went digital. The clients hunkered down at their family home in Pittsburgh, while Boozer worked from New York. “It just felt like, You have to do this, you have to figure it out,” says the designer.