Brooklyn’s best Design District
50+ architecture firms from BIG and Snøhetta, to Alloy and JAM Architects. 10+ indie shops in three square blocks, just down the street from Henrybuilt + Reform. HQ to Etsy and West Elm. Product designers. Furniture makers. Lighting designers and so much more.
“Dumbo has earned its new title as a New York City design district. While the former industrial hub has long been attracting architecture and design creatives and artists, there’s been a significant uptick in activity in recent years that hasn’t gone unnoticed.”
Dumbo x Design Day: held annual the Wednesday before Memorial Day
A day of design tours, open studios, panels and events, plus the official closing party of the NYC x Design Festival.
2026 Map + Events List will be shared in the spring.
Fast Company sings the praises of Dumbo as NYC’s most charming design district — celebrating the news that world renowned design and architecture firm Snøhetta is moving in and joining more than 150 design companies in the ‘hood!
Design is here in Dumbo.
- Dozens of retail design shops – including major names like Henry Built + Reform and 12+ indie shops – including a special design shop row @ Pearl + Water Street – including Natural Selection, Usagi, Hudson Wilder, and Zaralot
- Dozens of architecture firms – including BIG, Snøhetta, Alloy Architecture, JAM Architects, Mammoth Design, Block Renovation
- HQ for major design brands including West Elm, Etsy, and Rent the Runway
- 50+ digital design studios
- Dozens of fashion + jewelry design companies – including Sayaka Davis, Naomi Nomi, Emma Rubinson, Andie Swim, Angie Marei, Alexis Bittar, Sundae School, Fang, Timothy Westbrook, and Colleen Allen
- Furniture designers – including Mark Jupiter, and HiLo Design
- Product designers – including Pensa, Biolite, Quip, Speks, Frog
- 150+ artist and design studios
- 10+ art galleries
- Annual Dumbo x Design event put on by a dozen+ firms during NYC x DESIGN Week
- Annual Dumbo Open Studios + Shop the Studios events
Meet some of our Rockstars
DNCO
DNCO is a creative studio dedicated to branding places and cultural destinations.
Studio Delson Architecture P.C
Brooklyn-based architecture and design firm that creates buildings and spaces that inspire. Known for their modern additions to historic buildings and their intentional approach to adaptive reuse, their work combines clean detail with careful space planning.
BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
Global architecture firm with their New York headquarters in Dumbo. Their 50,000 square-foot studio occupies an entire block with space for over 250 employees on one floor, and plenty of room to grow!
BioLite
BioLite Energy is a Dumbo-based energy product company, designing innovative off-grid energy solutions. Their mission is to empower people and protect the planet through access to renewable energy. They are B Corp Certified and climate neutral, allowing them to work towards their commitment to bettering the planet.
frog Design
frog Design is a design studio driven by creativity, curiosity, and passion, with a 27,000 square-foot space in Dumbo Heights. The studio was designed to provide flexibility with its double-height ceilings and to facilitate client and internal collaboration, reflecting frog’s innovative design approach.
HenryBuilt
HenryBuilt marries elegance & function, craft & innovation. A new approach to architecturally integrated kitchens, wardrobes, and other key areas.
Hudson Wilder
Hudson Wilder is a design studio and lifestyle brand. The handblown glassware and sleek accessories draw reference from the simplicity of the eclectic objects found in the home.
JAM Architects
JAM is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary architecture and interiors studio specializing in residential design.
Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture
Joanna Pertz Landscape Architecture (JPLA) provides innovative design solutions that enrich our communities and natural systems to make a positive impact on our world.
Based in Brooklyn, New York. JPLA is a certified women-owned (WBE) NY State and NYC Landscape Architecture studio. Their portfolio spans a wide range of project types including multifamily residential, institutional, healthcare, academic, public spaces and private gardens.
L+R
L+R Strategy & Aesthetics is an international design technology studio with expertise covering creative design, mobile software engineering, branding, and strategy consulting.
MAMMOTH projects
Mammoth is a design-build
studio where thoughtful design meets expert craftsmanship. Women-owned, and Brooklyn-based.
Studio Marcus Vinicius De Paula
In his Dumbo studio, sculptor Marcus Vinicius De Paula transforms stone and light into futuristic artifacts. His work, inspired by sci-fi and cosmic exploration, offers a timeless dialogue on identity, legacy, and humanity’s fragile place within the vastness of space and time.
Mark Jupiter
Mark Jupiter is New York City’s premier custom furniture design and manufacturing studio where craftsmanship, sustainability and community converge.
Pensa
Pensa is a product design & engineering consultancy located in Brooklyn, New York. They conceive, develop and engineer beautiful and rewarding new products.
Scott Henderson Inc.
Scott Henderson is among the top Industrial Designers working in America today. Scott’s product designs for his global fortune 500 clients including Microsoft, Jarden Consumer Solutions, Hamilton Beach Brands, Intel, LynQ, Skip Hop, Groupe Seb and Nike have become top selling industry disruptors.
Reform Kitchens
Dumbo’s well-known creative and forward-thinking atmosphere made it the ideal fit for Reform to showcase a Scandinavian approach to kitchen design.
Snøhetta
Snøhetta is a global transdisciplinary design firm, known for projects such as the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and the Far Rockaway Library in Queens. The firm opened their new NYC headquarters in Dumbo.
SOAR NY
SOAR NY is an independent design studio based in New York. They specialize in branding including naming, visual identity, package design, creative direction, and digital design.
Space Theory
Space Theory’s New York flagship showroom is located on the ground floor of Dumbo’s historic Stable Building. The firm’s kitchen system provides a complete design solution with refinement of detail and unique, built-in functionality.
Studio Atomic
Studio Atomic is a design studio that uses light as an architectural asset. Following Italian design tradition, they craft spaces with intent, leveraging the nature of materials, combined with bold and colorful accents.
ZAROLAT
Zarolat is an architecture studio and a design collective representing a community of artists and makers. It is a creative initiative that celebrates skillful design and artisanship. Zarolat’s first studio and gallery space located in historic Dumbo showcases an exclusive collection of art and design objects by independent artists from all over the world.
Alloy
As architects and developers, Alloy sees opportunity in the diversity and complexity of their urban context, and use great architecture and thoughtful development to positively impact their built environment.
Merrell Soule Architects
Merrell Soule Architects believe that design is more than a visual art; design is also a narrative art. And it begins with client stories- stories about the past and stories about the future.
Dumbo has always been a hotbed of design – with architecturally significant buildings that range from award winning historic renovations to new construction gems.
FACT: The cardboard box was invented in Dumbo by Robert Gair (aka Mr. Gairville). Dumbo’s been changing design since 1906.