G.P. Schafer Architect 20th Anniversary
2022 marks the 20th anniversary of GPSA, and we celebrated the occasion with a cocktail reception on November 16th on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Over 250 people attended the festive evening including current team members and their spouses, clients, collaborators-including decorators, landscape designers, contractors, vendors, and craftspeople-as well as members of the design press and alums from the firm’s team over the last 20 years. At his toast of thanks to those gathered at the event, Gil remarked, “20 years ago when I opened my office out of a tiny one-room shoebox of a space on Spring and Lafayette Streets, I don’t know that I would have believed I would get the opportunity to work with so many amazing collaborators over the next two decades. But here we are all these years later, and it is truly thanks to all of you for being part of that incredible creative adventure together that we have been able to do the work we have. I raise my glass to each of you!”
Top Row, Left to Right: Candice Bergen, Gil, landscape designer Debby Nevins; GPSA Team; Bottom Right: GPSA team members Matt Enquist, James Reilly, Rachel Reilly, Chris Taylor, principal Mickey Benson. Third Row, Left to Right: Gil, journalist Pilar Vilades, editor and podcast host Michael Boodro; Town & Country editor-in-chief Stellene Volandes, Bunny Williams; Erin Burke, Ariana Whelan, Chris Whelan, Austin Proehl, Sarah Gumenick. Fourth Row, Left to Right: GPSA team member John Hanlon, interior designer Courtnay Daniels, Lisette Taylor, GPSA partner Lou Taylor, videographer Daniel Cohen; Jack Calvert, Philip Spence, Matt Leonard, Samuel Methvin; former GPSA team members Tessa Gearity, Daniela Cascio, Holly Johnson; architect Mark Ferguson, Studio Designer CEO Keith Granet, Gil, Wright & Co. Construction founder Ken Wright. Fifth Row, Left to Right: Aimee and Kevin Buccellato, GPSA’s earliest employees and founders of Buccellato Design; architect and former GPSA team member Whitley Esteban, Gil, Tessa Gearity; AD Global Interiors & Garden editor Alison Levasseur, RH Media chief editorial officer Margaret Russell, interior designer Markham Roberts.
2022 McKim, Mead & White Awards
We are incredibly honored to receive a McKim, Mead, and White Award from the New York chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art for this new stone country house, set on a dramatic, sloping 60-acre piece of property in New York’s northern Dutchess County. Designed in collaboration with Deborah Nevins for landscape and Thomas Jayne for interior decoration, the house was inspired by the Georgian and early Regency houses of the English countryside while creating an intentional interplay between architecture and landscape. [Photo by Eric Piasecki]
What an honor to be once again included on Architectural Digest’s AD100 list for 2023. Our work wouldn’t be possible without our inspiring clients, talented collaborators, and hardworking team at GPSA, and we are thrilled to share this recognition with them. [Photos by Eric Piasecki]
We’re thrilled to have a few of our projects included in Waterworks’ new book, The Ultimate Bath, which was published by Rizzoli in late October. To see more, please visit our Additional Books page >
New Press
It’s always a pleasure to see our work featured in the media and over the last few months, we’ve had our work included in Frederic magazine and have been named to Ocean Home’s Top 50 Coastal Architects and Traditional Building’s list of Who’s Who in Contemporary Classical Architecture. To see these and other recent media clips visit our Press Section > and Online Media Section >.
Taken on location in Maine while shooting with our longtime collaborator Eric Piasecki this summer, this photo is just one moment from many recent photoshoots that we’ll be sharing in our next book, coming from Rizzoli in the Spring of 2024! Stay tuned for more book news soon.