Selected Press
2016.05.13 - Go Inside the Lushly Appointed Rooms of the Kips Bay Decorator Show House
2017.02.16 - "We wanted another place to congregate that felt really cozy," says Behun of the study off the living and dining space. "Someplace where you’d want to put your feet up." The shelves play host to a variety of ceramics by Cody Hoyt and others.
2017.03.11
2017.04.26 - Kips Bay 2017
March 2018
12.14.18
2016.05.14 - 16 Gorgeous Home Decor Tips from A-List Decorators
03.24.16 - For assistance in putting it all together, my go-to contractor is Best and Company.
Nov-Dec 2013
Jan 2013 - Before & After: Top 5 Reader Kitchens. Contractor Chip Brian from Best & Company.
10.30.2014
5.22.2014 - During a 15-month renovation—Ms. Dubbs declined to reveal the cost—her designer Alexander Doherty and contractor Chip Brian added crown moldings and baseboards to the room, and lined two walls with built-in bookcases wired with library lamps.
Oct 2014 - W Lennox Hill Showhouse. General Contractor Best & Company. Designer Cetra Ruddy.
March 2015 - General Contractor Best & Company. Designer Mark Zeff.
6.1.2015 - Inside The Kips Bay Showhouse
2016.10.11 - A Polished New York Apartment with Family-Friendly Style
2017.04.24
2017.02.17
2017.04.27 - Kips Bay 2017
March 2018
12.6.18
2016.05.11 - Kips Bay Offers a Colorful Answer to Décor Sameness
2016.05.23 - Inside the dream home of a one-percenter
Winter 2015 - The name says it: Chip Brian's firm specializes in contracting as couture, overseeing every aspect of a project, from conception through realization, and works with the most discerning architects and designers.
5.23.2014
11.2014 - 2014 Holiday House. General Contractor Best & Company. Designer Linherr Hollingsworth.
Dec 2014 - NYC&G and Kravet Present Phase II of the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island's Project Design.
5.1.2014 - Kips Bay Show House. General Contractor Best & Company. Designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard.
09.12.2015 - And Chip Brian, a co-owner of Best & Company, a contracting firm in Queens, said that when he put the bulb in his sons’ room, his 4-year-old, an “active night kid,” suddenly slept through until morning. The change was so extreme that his wife thought the boy might be sick and went to check on him, Mr. Brian said. “I was sort of amazed.”
2016.05.12 - Step Inside the 2016 Kips Bay Decorator Show House
2016.10.03 - Emmy Rossum's Renovated NYC Apartment Is A Fresh Take On Antique European Style
2017.02.23
2017.05.01 - Kips Bay 2017
Jan 2018
11.1.18
2016.05 - Step Inside the 2016 Kips Bay Decorator Show House
Winter 2016
2.19.2014 - The library features a custom millwork bookshelf by Manhattan’s Best & Company that is lined with cut pile mohair in a textured zigzag pattern.
10.13.2014 - General contractor Best & Company worked with interior designers, Drew McGukin, Young Huh, and Danielle Colding on the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island's playful renovation.
1.21.2015 - General Contractor Best & Company
June 2014 - Kips Bay Show House. General Contractor Best & Company. Designer John Douglas Eason.
December / January 2013
04.07.2015 - The skinny mini gallery space just downstairs from its 29th Street workshop and school, designed in collaboration with Best & Company, will display a selection of the workshop’s handcrafted furniture and accessories, which will alternate seasonally.
2016.05.16 - PHOTO TOUR: Inside the Kips Bay Decorator Show House
2016.10.03 - Inside Emmy Rossum's chic, youthful Manhattan pied-à-terre
2016.09.25 - A Banker Turned Builder in Queens Chip Brian’s Best & Co. manufactures wood interiors at a factory in Long Island City
2017.02.17
2016.05 - 21 designers transform a $49.5 million townhouse for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House
07.30.2015 -Pas de deux: A Collaboration of Designer and Contractor--What They Do and How They Work Together!
05.29.2015 - “If you don’t have cooperation from your adjacent neighbors because you’re not treating them with kindness and respect, and if you don’t have an open communication channel with your building management company and/or superintendent, then you are doomed to fail,” said Chip Brian, an owner of Best & Company in New York, general contractors.
2.20.14 - NYP Real Estate Home
10.29.2014 - Chip Brian, co-owner of the general contractor Best & Company, spends his days surrounded by tools.
5.1.2014 - Kips Bay Show House 2014. General Contractor Best & Company. Designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard.
6.26.2014 - BEST & Company, the contractor I worked with, installed 220” long rolls of paper on the walls. And they did it all when there was scaffolding less than 8” away from the wall.
5.20.2014 - Before and After Photos of an NYC Mansion’s Transformation
June 2015 - The Interior Design Hall of Frame gala is where they met...