Why use a designer?

You may know fabrics and furnishings, but can you pull it all together? We guide the conversation and create the magic.

Why shop the trade?

The John Loecke, Inc. duo gives you access to the world’s top showrooms and use our soup-to-nuts knowledge base that will take your home from nice to knockout.

What is your most valued design tip?

We develop an overall storyline that guides our clients’ interior design process. We curate and edit your vision. The result is “you,” just you with a capital “Y.”

What makes your style unique?

The John Loecke, Inc. team takes tradition and tweaks it. We have a strong foundation in the classics and then we revv it up with whimsy, color, and fun. Vroom, vroom! Let’s get this rig a-rocking.

Who is your design icon and why?

Dorothy Draper and Nancy Lancaster. We love how these glorious gals took tradition and added delicious drama and kicked-up colors that created interiors that are accessible and supremely comfortable. Who wants to live in a home that’s precious?

If you were a piece of furniture, what would you want to be and why?

The John Loecke, Inc. team would want to be reincarnated as the over-the-top, glamorous, and exuberant secretary that Tony Duquette designed for Elsie de Wolfe. Magic!

What is your ideal getaway/escape? 

We are crazy about India, especially the desert outside of Jodhpur. The colors are so vivid and acid-tinged against the dry desert landscape. You can be out in the middle of nowhere, and then there’s a group of women wearing bright green, orange, yellow, and tangerine who appear mirage-like walking down the road. Amazing! We are constantly inspired, challenged, and intoxicated.

What is your favorite movie set?

John Loecke and Jason Oliver Nixon love anything by Busby Berkeley, like the Carmen Miranda/Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat scene from the film The Gang’s All Here. So chic, so over the top, so fabulous. Monkeys! Check. Bananas! Check. A gaggle of chorines and Carmen Miranda bedecked in fruit. Check, check, check. We want to move in.