WHEN I DESIGN a place, I think about the emotion that will be provoked when you walk in,” said interior architect Martin Brudnizki. In the case of his own apartment in London, Mr. Brudnizki wanted to convey comfort and escape “but not necessarily visual quiet,” he said. “I wanted an enormous number of layers, textures, art, objects, plants. So much of my work is about the client, but this was all about me.”
One could argue that the commercial spaces for which Mr. Brudnizki’s eponymous New York and London firm are known—Manhattan’s...