A Thomas O'Brien Company The existence of Aero is central to O’Brien’s creative approach. The store is open Monday through Saturday, 11:00 am until 6:00 pm.
Thomas O’Brien founded Aero Studios in 1992 as an interior design firm combined with a vintage furniture gallery and home furnishings store. In name and practice, Aero has always represented this twofold enterprise: studio and store together, distinctively housed together under one roof. It is both the place and the style that connect the elements of his design world in a continuous thread, from p
roducts to shop to interiors. Since his arrival on the New York design stage, O’Brien has embraced the full arc of traditional to modern style as a new way to define American modern living. His work passes through a modernist filter but is bred of older virtues: vintage elegance, classic comfort, and credible, knowledgeable collecting. As his company alter-ego, Aero is the constant laboratory for this philosophy. Modeled after the industrial workshops and artist ateliers that O’Brien admires, the Aero design studio translates historical inspirations into modern products and spaces: O’Brien’s namesake brand of home furnishings; his popular Vintage Modern collection for Target; commercial and residential architecture and design. The Aero store acts as the retail function of the studio, sharing the designer’s latest ideas with the public in an emporium of special goods, six days a week, year-round. For nearly twenty years, Aero has been a fixture in New York’s downtown Soho neighborhood. Today it remains an emblem of Soho’s modern arts and gallery legacy, as one of the original designer stores in the area, and a unique style outpost for shoppers from around the city and the world. From its first address on Spring Street in central Soho, Aero is now located just to the south, in the resurgent Crosby-Broome design district. Joined with Aero Studios in the headquarters of the Thomas O’Brien Company, the Aero store occupies a much-expanded street-front presence, and exhibits the most complete offering anywhere of O’Brien’s brand products: furniture, lighting, carpets, and fabrics to order, along with tableware, accessories, and bedding. Special gift registry and home decor services through the store also extend O’Brien’s design imprimatur to shoppers, for more personalized access to the full world of Aero style. Aero Studios, Aero Ltd., and the Thomas O’Brien Company are located at 419 Broome Street (between Crosby and Lafayette streets). Studio visits are scheduled by appointment.
06/01/2026
Under the copper beech tree, the gate behind the garden house leads to the gardener's work area.
It was very purposeful to make the progression toward the library room and the gardens behind the house all the more mysterious in terms of when additions might have happened and why. Yet all of the rooms open onto this shared view, with a soft, vintage natural feeling that helps to paus modern time.
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05/30/2026
Each wall in this bathroom is a variation of a raised panel: the tub and shower marble are contained by paneled moulding and each wall is another paneled moulding variation. The details of mirror, marble, and even the classic glass rod towel bars, evoke vintage deco bathrooms, but with a freshness and brightness for now.
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05/28/2026
The allee in summer , planted with low beds of nasturtium Here, growing up through the slats of a Regency bench found in London.
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05/27/2026
A calm and soothing entry gallery for this Miami home, featuring a collection of works by noted 20th-century artists that share a seaside theme. Carlo Mollino chairs flank the Ico Parisi console.
My Decca Obital pendant for Visual Comfort hangs above.
From issue XIX of@fredericmagazine
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05/24/2026
This corner of the mudroom felt like the right home for this wonderful 1950s Arne Jacobsen table and set of chair I'd saved for many years. WE sit here to put on sandals during the summer and boots during the winter. The antique mahogany corner cabinet holds holiday crystal and a collection of vintage snow globes.
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05/22/2026
A beautiful shot of the brick round in the garden. From the July-August 2024 issue of Flower Magazine.
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05/19/2026
This fine, eighteenth-century American cabinet was assembled from earlier carved pen-and-ink panels imported from England, probably dating back to the late 1600s. On top is an 1840s Italian landscape painting and an English lamp made from an antique coffee urn.
05/17/2026
The framed view from the garden house dining pavilion looking out onto the walled garden.
05/15/2026
A shot from our old Broome street location with cubbies lining the stair way to the lower level, filled with smaller accessories and lighting.
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05/14/2026
A view down the length of the room, with the long balcony overhanging the portico entrance. A pair of my Farlane chandeliers, specially made in silver plate, hangs on either end of the room, from low profiled beams on the paneled ceiling.