jeanlin – Colony

We are hiring: Project Manager

October 9, 2026 jeanlin

Colony is seeking a hyper-organized, detail-oriented Project Manager to join our team full-time. This role will provide wide-ranging operational and logistical support to the core functions of our interior design practice and cooperative gallery space.

You will work directly with our small team on interior design project management and gallery support. The ideal candidate has 2-4 years of experience working as a residential interior designer, but is truly passionate about the organizational work, timelines, and execution that keep a studio running efficiently.

Interior design project management (80%)

Manage multiple residential design projects simultaneously from concept presentations through final installation
Attend client facing interior design meetings, presentations and site visits. Process and assign all resulting notes and action items
Create, manage, and strictly enforce project timelines to keep all projects moving forward
Oversee the entire procurement lifecycle, including generating purchase orders, tracking vendor lead times, and managing warehousing
Serve as the primary logistical point of contact for clients, architects, general contractors, and custom fabricators
Track project budgets meticulously, maintaining up-to-date financial reporting on product costs, shipping, and labor
Coordinate and oversee on-site residential installations, resolving any discrepancies or site issues swiftly

Gallery and event support (20%)

Assist with logistical coordination for gallery exhibitions, industry events, and brand partnerships
Coordinate receiving deliveries, artwork shipments, and overall logistics per event
Support run-of-show and day-of needs during studio gatherings and gallery openings
Assist with coordinating catering, rentals, and additional vendor concerns as needed

Colony is a mission-driven design studio and gallery led by Jean Lin. This is a full-time, in-person position with a competitive salary commensurate with a candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Please submit your resume, portfolio and a brief cover letter explaining why your background in design makes you the perfect project manager to info@goodcolony.com with the subject line “Project Manager Application” or apply within this post.

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Apply Now: Colony Vendor Select

October 1, 2026 jeanlin

Colony’s Vendor Select program is an elevation of the classic lunch and learn. Hosted in partnership with founder and curator Jean Lin, the Vendor Select program brings architectural and trade-facing products from the workroom onto the gallery floor. Vendor Select provides high impact, high return engagement with both existing and new A&D clientele. Applications are currently open for the 2027 calendar year.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This series is designed for businesses with a sophisticated, luxury product and a compelling story to tell. The collaboration gives brands access to Colony’s close trade network, tailored directly to your sales and marketing strategy.

As a series, these concentrated business development events allow trade to directly see, touch, feel and connect with your product and your team—without the noise and competition of a supply room, fabrication site, or trade show.

The events complement and offer continuity to your holistic sales and marketing strategy. Each one enables multiple exposure points at different, strategically timed moments throughout the year in a luxury, inspirational, and centrally located Manhattan gallery setting.

Applications are currently open for the 2027 calendar year. We will be accepting up to four partners.

THE OFFER

The series is designed as a minimum of three (3) Lunch & Learns across a calendar year.

TIER 1—HOST
Use the space as an inspirational home base for your Lunch & Learns, led by your team.

TIER 2—COLLABORATE
Use the space as an inspirational home base for your Lunch & Learns, led by your team in collaboration with Colony as formal co-hosts.

Colony personally invites a specific, tailored list of trade, based on your team’s highest-value client wish list (10-20 key relationships may be requested).

LEARN MORE

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Introducing: Colony Architecture

July 7, 2026 jeanlin

We are elated to announce the official launch of Colony Architecture, a full service architecture studio in New York City. Eleven years ago, we began humbly in real estate staging and have since partnered closely with architects through all phases of their projects. Our earliest interiors clients found us the same way that our trade clients do today: through the roster of independent American designers on our gallery floor. With Colony Architecture, our commitment to independent design will now encompass every aspect of the built environment. Just as our interior design projects have given us greater insight into the ways heritage furniture is specified, our architectural projects will help us better anticipate spatial challenges on a larger scale.

Colony’s nascent architectural projects present us the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on the built environment. We will continue to work with our cherished ecosystem of ethically-driven creatives and makers to bring spaces to life where beauty and substance take equal precedence.

“We believe that the best design is that which is made with integrity and the best spaces are those which bring meaning and purpose to the people who inhabit it.” —Jean Lin

From What We Keep: Wood (Section 1)

February 3, 2026 jeanlin

Begin at the beginning, they say. And when speaking of the home, there is no better place to start than wood. It is foundational in our built environment. Buildings, furniture, objects, paper can all be reduced to wood.

So many of us have memories of loudly upturning a bucket of wood blocks onto the living room carpet, learning scales on an upright piano, carving our initials into a tree in the yard, recoiling from a splinter as a result, or finding the perfect Y-shaped branch to make a slingshot. It’s no wonder that wood is so ingrained in our sense memories that it is a core element in the broadest of human experiences.

Aspiring furniture makers, too, will likely begin with the wood that’s readily available from a local hardware store. They chip and whittle and saw and glue and sand their way to their masterpieces. Nary is there an interior designer or architect who doesn’t love wood. Transcending stylistic tastes and eras, wood furnishings, floors, walls, and details are ubiquitous in almost any home, making it both essential and specific to the design world.

Adaptable and hardworking, the wood element’s personality is one of many facets: grounded and visionary, historical and lasting, hard and soft, but above all evergreen in relevance.

Purchase a signed copy of What We Keep by Jean Lin here.

Re-Reel: What Not To Wear at a Job Site

January 16, 2026 jeanlin

When it comes to keeping up with social media, the struggle is real (or should we say reel ). We’ve been working hard on taking control of our narrative, showing you a slice of our world, and honing our overall comedic timing over on our social media platform of choice: Instagram. In case you missed it, we’ll share some of our favorites here too.

If you can’t wait for the next drop, follow us here.

See more of our recent interiors projects in the press:

Tribeca Triplex on Open House TV

Williamsburg Townhouse in NY Magazine

Greenpoint Maisonette in Dwell

Hilltop Hideaway in Wallpaper*