Founded in 2009, Halcyon Design, LLC is a design company that embodies creativity, fluidity, and common sense. Inspired by and drawing upon 25 years of experience in the retail world of both fashion and case goods, Tim Croneberger began the company with the idea that simple is beautiful.
“I love to source goods. I love discovering that perfect sconce or spotting the exact paint color to transform a space—and I won’t give up until I do. I love making it all look simple- and beautiful.”
Tim’s love for design began at a very early age and like many interior designers, he was influenced by his own home. “I was one of those kids who would rather re-arrange his bedroom furniture on a Saturday than go for a bike ride.”
He credits his mother for instilling in him a sense of color, scale and proportion—and the ability to work wonders on a very limited budget. “I would come home from school and the living room would be completely changed around and we’d have new curtains that were made from sheets, throw pillows from a fabric remnant she picked up at the mall, and new furniture that turned out to be freshly painted and not new at all. I was in awe of her and what she was able to do to re-interpret a space.”
Halcyon’s first design project was a Chelsea duplex that Tim designed in 2009. Tim also completed a gut renovation of a two-bedroom Park Avenue apartment, designed a new condo in Harlem for a Wall Street bachelor, and spent most of last year turning a 10,500 sq. ft. country estate in Westport, Connecticut into a home for his esteemed and very private clients. He used existing furniture from the client's farm in Virginia and added his own style by sourcing items that brought modern comfort to traditionalism.
Tim moved his clients in while they vacationed for the summer at one of their other properties in the midwest and left the property turn-key for their arrival home in September.
Tim is currently working on a 3 bedroom condo in the heart of Chelsea and will begin working on a new Barrow Street project in Greenwich Village that involves re-interpreting the famed architect, Adam Kushner's former home for Tim's client, the new owner of the duplex penthouse. This will be the third home he designs for this client.
Tim lives alone in a rent stabilized studio apartment in Chelsea, NYC, which has taken on countless transformations over his 17 year residency.
He is the proud father of a 4 year old and believes the only day better than Saturday is Dadurday.
