Tom Scheerer began his decorating career in the mid-1980s, after graduating fromCooper Union with a degree in architecture. He formed his own firm in 1995. Over the ensuing three decades, he has become renowned for his signature style—a “relaxed modernism,” as he calls it. Whether a city apartment, a country house, or a tropical getaway, the same aesthetic prevails: comfort and ease derived from perfect proportions and fresh, unpretentious beauty. It seems utterly effortless, belying the fierce intelligence, impeccable eye, and encyclopedic knowledge of design history behind every decorating decision. As Architectural Digest put it, “If a no-nonsense decorator sounds like an oxymoron, Scheerer proves otherwise. Unfussy precision is where his talent reigns.” The New York Times considers Scheerer “perhaps . . . the most expert proponent today” of “the vanishing art of great American design, as pioneered by Van Day Truex, Billy Baldwin and Albert Hadley.”
He is the subject of Tom Scheerer Decorates and the author of Tom Scheerer: More Decorating and Tom Scheerer: Still Decorating. His work has been included in such design compendiums as Inspired Design: The 100 Most Important Designers of the Past 100 Years and is regularly featured in Architectural Digest, Town & Country, T Magazine, House Beautiful, and Elle Decor, among many other national and international publications. He is annually named to Elle Decor’s A-List Titans. He currently lives in Palm Beach but makes frequent trips tohis homes in East Hampton, Paris, Maine, and Abaco in the Bahamas