With more than two decades of experience, Charlotte designer Brooke Werhane has built her career as an artist and an interior designer by leading with curiosity, craft, and an intuitive understanding of how people live in their spaces.
Her path as an interior designer began academically. She studied architecture, art history, and fine art. Then, her path took a formative turn when she moved to New York after college. There, she worked for legendary designer Bunny Williams. She honed her eye alongside industry icons including Jeffrey Bilhuber and John Rosselli. During this time, she also absorbed a reverence for history and detail that continues to shape her work today. She has since designed five New York Times–reviewed restaurants and countless private interiors, each grounded in collaboration and confident editing.
Parallel to her design practice runs a fine art career. Werhane describes her art as “a whole other world.” Yet, it’s one that can overlap with design through commissions and studio collaborations. Her work has been exhibited at Mecox Gardens and the New York Design Center, as well as in galleries across Berlin, Brooklyn, Connecticut, and New York. Closer to home in Charlotte, she has shown at Shain Gallery. Plus, she regularly creates work for the Mint Auxiliary Spring Symposium. The thread connecting both disciplines is storytelling. Specifically, she creates visual narratives through texture, composition, and emotion, regardless of whether her workspace is a home or a canvas.
A Charlotte Designer Perfects the Art of Home
Werhane’s interiors are deeply personal, shaped less by trends than by lived experience. She approaches design like a painter, layering meaning into every corner. Picture stacks of old magazines and favorite novels, broken shells or found feathers, an inherited china set, or a screened porch ready with rocking chairs and a serving tray. Her aesthetic (polished, eclectic, artistic) celebrates both order and chaos, luxury and comfort, and – most of all – the small treasures and inviting peculiarities of a life in action.
In her design work, Werhane values relationships rooted in communication and patience. “I love someone who knows what they don’t like,” she says and emphasizes the importance of trust. This Charlotte designer also champions local vendors whenever possible, believing it strengthens both the project and the community.
At its core, Werhane’s mission is to guide clients in creating homes that evolve with them, spaces that reflect their histories, rhythms, and dreams.
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