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This New York–based luxury lifestyle consultancy has uniquely treated personal style and interior design as one shared, deeply personal language.
The exercise, effort, and cultivation around crafting a stylish wardrobe and a stylish home are actually one and the same. Establishing a defined style that is distinctly personal and successfully expressing it across colors, shapes, fabrics, and of course brands, follows the same discipline whether on the bones of a human or on the bones of a structure.
In fact, style and design serve as a direct extension of one’s unique personality and lifestyle. Classic Upper East Side socialite, chic Left Bank loft, whimsical 1970s Milanese flair, bohemian Aegean villa, or avant-garde Amangiri minimalism are not categories to choose between but amorphous identities expressed through clothing, space, and years of lived experience.
Though in practice, those seeking professional guidance in defining their style identity are usually funneled toward specialists who focus solely on either personal style or interior design. By contrast, New York–based Visual Therapy has spent 30 years helping clients develop both.
“From the very beginning, the focus has been on refining personal style by aligning who clients are, who and what they surround themselves with, and how they present themselves. This shapes how you move through the day and how you are treated and received. Your home is where you begin and end that day, and it should reflect that same sense of style and identity,“ explains Visual Therapy co-founder Joe Lupo, who launched the company with business partner Jesse Garza in 1995 and Visual Therapy Home in 2010.
A disciplined process shaped by how people live
Since launching the company in New York and initially focusing on styling, Lupo, Garza, and their team have worked with a wide range of clients and companies, including powerful executives, celebrities, luxury consumer brands, socialites, politicians, even prominent talk show hosts and European car manufacturers looking to refine their style and voice. They have also authored three books on personal style, color, and professional wardrobe strategy. Alongside this work, they’ve helped hundreds of everyday folks on the technical craft of wardrobe building, proportion, color, and edit, treating personal style as a deliberate, very personal practice rather than just a superficial focus on taste alone.
Private Residence in Watermill, New York. Photo: Peter Murdock @vthomeny