94 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM {home & design} much like a Coco home project,” muses the staging designer, who says she gravitates toward an open look with neutral colors and a minimal approach. Coco also appreciates versatile items that work well across a variety of homes. “It’s such a curated eye,” she remarks of the designing process, explaining that there’s an art to weaving things into a cohesive whole. If you don’t have that knack, you’ll end up instead with a “big pile of home goods.” Among Coco’s other talents is making room lovecocohome.com PHOTOGRAPHY: COURTESY OF SO GOLD MARKETING / COURTESY OF EVOKE MEDIA in throw blankets, James and his five-piece band took the stage, performing jazzy holiday songs under the stringlights. “It broke my heart to take it down,” Coco says, adding that before they did, she used the setup as a backdrop for a couple of photo shoots as well as a sleepover with her kids. That isn’t the last time Coco has utilized the space to build connections. She’s also opened up her warehouse to host a real estate panel to shine a light on exemplary vendors in the industry, and plans for another popup with James are in the works. “When you come into someone’s home, it’s such a personal moment,” Coco muses. “To bring people to our house is so rad.” Whatever the future holds, there’s a storehouse of possibilities waiting for Coco. Wherever she goes, she’ll be right at home. hospitality. In collaboration with singer and friend James Lanman, she hosted a popup holiday party last year at her warehouse, using her staging stash to deck out the industrial space. It had this “vibey kind of New York minute feeling,” she describes. “It was very speakeasy.” Guests savored pisco sours and Peruvian bites in the lobby-turned-lounge, then were ushered into the main warehouse for an intimate concert. As the audience settled into Coco’s eclectic inventory of couches and chairs, wrapping themselves
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