Bicoastal Living

California mainstay Nickey Kehoe plants its flag in the heart of New York City

- HANNAH MARTIN

More than 20 years ago, AD100 designers Todd Nickey and Amy Kehoe met cute in typical New York City fashion, seated next to one another at a dinner party. "We fell for each other that night," Kehoe recalls, clarifying, "platonically." At the time, she was working in historic preservation at Beyer Blinder Belle; he was in creative services at Ralph Lauren. That evening, they bonded over their shared knack for ushering the past into the present. Then in 2004, after each moving to Los Angeles, they joined forces-first launching a design firm and later the furnishings emporium that has grown into the tastemaking brand Nickey Keho