The first-ever Veranda Virtual Show House. Six designers. Six rooms. Six beloved films reimagined as interiors.

When Veranda conceived its first-ever virtual show house, it set the project in Hollywood and invited six designers to do something no show house had asked before: take a beloved film and translate it into a room. The result was one of the most imaginative design collaborations in recent memory, and Maestri Studio was at the center of it, designing the house itself.

Eddie Maestri served as the architectural and interiors planner for the overall project, creating the framework within which six all-star designers brought their rooms to life. The participants included Mary McDonald, Jaime Rummerfield, Madeline Stuart, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, and Patricia Benner, each working within a house that Maestri Studio designed to hold their visions with coherence and grace. A show house lives or dies by its bones. The rooms can be extraordinary, but without a strong architectural foundation, they read as a collection of moments rather than a home. That foundation was Maestri Studio's contribution.

The project was featured in Veranda in February 2026, written by Alisa Carroll, under the headline: We Asked 6 Designers to Reimagine Beloved Movies as Rooms, and the Results Are Unreal. It marked a new format for one of America's most celebrated design publications, and a natural expression of everything the studio believes about the relationship between architecture and interiors. The best rooms do not exist in isolation. They are shaped by the spaces that surround them, by the sequence of arrival, the proportion of the walls, the quality of the light. That is the work Maestri Studio brought to Hollywood.

The Veranda Virtual Show House is now part of a growing body of showhouse work that includes Le Salon de Musique at the 2024 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas. Together, they reflect the studio's conviction that showhouses are not a side project. They are one of the clearest expressions of what a design practice actually believes.

Le Salon de Musique

There is a particular kind of room that asks nothing of you. You walk in, find a seat, and stay longer than you planned. Le Salon de Musique was that room.

For the 2024 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, Maestri Studio designed one of the largest spaces in the house: a music salon conceived in the spirit of Art Deco glamour, 1970s ease, and French-Japanese refinement. The three are not obvious companions, but in the right hands they share something essential. A love of lacquer and line. A preference for rooms that feel curated rather than decorated. A belief that a beautiful space should also be a comfortable one.

The room was designed to be inhabited, not admired from the doorway. A custom landscape sofa anchored the center, low and generous, oriented toward a hand-painted wallcovering by Porteteleo that wrapped the room in a world of its own. Above, a mirrored medallion caught the light and held the eye. The intention was simple: sit down, look up, stay a while.

The mood was light. French pop played softly. Incense burned in an Apparatus diffuser, its smoke threading through air that moved with natural daylight. The room did not announce itself. It drew you in.

Every element was chosen with that atmosphere in mind. The Equilibrium mantel by Arcana grounded the room with quiet architectural presence. A chandelier and fabrics from Jiun Ho added an Eastern delicacy that balanced the room's more exuberant gestures. Fabrics from JG Switzer and custom tulip shades and lambréquins by The Shade Store layered softness throughout. A custom fireplace screen by Modern Metals gave the hearth an edge. Pieces from Apparatus, Mous, and Wrensilva were placed with the care of a collection rather than a showroom, and a Feizy rug anchored the floor underfoot. Curated art from Collector House completed the room, each piece in conversation with the whole.

Custom furnishings by Maestri Studio were designed specifically for the space, scaled and finished to work with the room's proportions and palette in ways that no existing piece could have. That is the advantage of a studio that designs and sources under one roof: nothing is settled for.

The Kips Bay Decorator Show House is one of the most prestigious showhouse programs in the country, benefiting Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. The Dallas edition brings together a curated roster of designers in a single landmark property each year. Le Salon de Musique was Maestri Studio's contribution to the 2024 edition, and a clear expression of what the studio believes a room can be: a place with a point of view, made for people to actually use.

After the Applause: Our Dec My Room Installation

A miniature installation. A Hollywood Hills bachelor's bathroom. Art Deco at one-twelfth scale.

Not every showhouse fills a ballroom. Some of the most considered design work happens at a scale you could hold in your hands.

Maestri Studio participated in the Dec My Room miniature showhouse fundraiser, contributing a fully realized installation benefiting the Room to Grow initiative. The concept: a Hollywood Hills bachelor actor's bathroom, circa the golden age of Art Deco. Lacquered surfaces. Architectural detailing. The particular glamour of a man who takes his surroundings seriously.

At miniature scale, there is nowhere to hide. Every proportion is exposed, every material choice deliberate. What reads as a background detail in a full-size room becomes a focal point when reduced to one-twelfth scale. The studio approached the installation the way it approaches every project: with a clear point of view established first, and every object selected in service of it.

The finished piece was celebrated and auctioned at a luncheon at Neiman Marcus, where it sold for $1,500, with proceeds benefiting Room to Grow. It was received as exactly what it was intended to be: a small room with a strong personality, and a reminder that good design does not require square footage.

The Art Deco thread that runs through this installation connects directly to Le Salon de Musique at the 2024 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas. It is not a coincidence. It reflects a genuine affinity within the studio's work for the discipline and drama of that tradition, the way it balances ornament with geometry, warmth with precision. At any scale, those qualities translate.