David Kleinberg, Interior Designer
David Kleinberg is one of the most respected and celebrated names in interior design. Over a thirty-five-year career with projects reaching around the world, Kleinberg has created a body of work that is wide-ranging in style yet always modern in sensibility. Whether boldly inspired or carefully nuanced, Kleinberg’s interiors are above all clean-lined, sophisticated and highly attuned to each client’s lifestyle.
After graduating from Trinity College in 1976, Kleinberg explored the New York design world while working first at Denning & Fourcade and then at Mara Palmer. His talents were further honed during his sixteen-year tenure at the venerable Parish-Hadley Associates, beginning in 1981. Kleinberg left Parish-Hadley in 1997 to start his own firm David Kleinberg Design Associates which today employs twenty.
Kleinberg is a member of the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame and has been honored with the Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York School of Interior Design. He was first named to Architectural Digest’s ‘The AD 100” list in 2012 and has been a member of Elle Décor A-List since 2011. Kleinberg has participated in the Kips Bay Decorator Show House throughout his career and his work is published internationally. He published his monograph Traditional Now: Interiors by David Kleinberg with The Monacelli Press in 2011, a new book, David Kleinberg Interiorswas recently released in March 2025 by The Monacelli Press.
Kleinberg lives in New York City and East Hampton, NY. He serves on the Board of Directors of New York School of Interior Design.