Her retail store for the label Loeffler Randall (which she describes as “more like a space to feel pretty in and less like a store”) will open in Soho early next year. Since founding her Brooklyn-based studio, Unionworks - a name that conveys the importance of collaboration between designers, architects and clients - in 2007, Khanna has designed projects ranging from elegant residential interiors on both the East and West Coasts to fashion showrooms.
This new focus on interior design was an unplanned career shift - “It just dropped in my lap,” she says - but it clearly suited her well. She then spent several years at the New York City Housing Authority, where she designed a community center, before leaving to work with a friend in Telluride, Colorado, on interiors for wealthy clients. November 29, 2020To look at Poonam Khanna’s elegant, understated rooms - with their confident, skillful blend of spare, modern lines and warm, welcoming tones and textures - you’d never know that her path to interior design was a circuitous one.Īfter studying political science and international relations at Brown and beginning a management training program at Saks Fifth Avenue (a mistake, she realized), Khanna earned a master’s degree in architecture from Parsons and another from Columbia University. Top: The library of a house she decorated in Los Angeles’s Beverly Hills features a Jean Prouvé daybed and a Flag Halyard chair by Hans Wegner. She opened her Brooklyn studio, Unionworks, in 2007 (portrait by Lesley Unruh). With degrees in architecture from both Parsons and Columbia University, Poonam Khanna shifted her focus to interior design after working for the New York City Housing Authority.
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