What Mark Cunningham does

Mark Cunningham, Inc. is a privately held, founder-owned luxury interior design firm headquartered at 15 West 37th Street, 14th Floor, in midtown Manhattan. Founded by Mark Cunningham in 2005 after a fifteen-year tenure at Ralph Lauren, the firm offers bespoke interior design services across luxury residential projects, hotel design, architectural consulting, and commercial concepts for clients in the United States and abroad. Its core technology is creative design and space styling — no proprietary software, platform, or AI tooling is disclosed.

The firm's commercial activity spans two revenue streams. The primary stream is professional services: customized interior design projects billed to ultra-high-net-worth clients across premier locations in New York City (Fifth Avenue, Central Park West, Park Avenue, Upper East/West Side, Madison Avenue, Jane Street, Greenwich Village), Long Island (Sagaponack, Southampton, Westhampton, Bellport), Connecticut (Greenwich, New Canaan, Washington), Massachusetts (Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard), and Marfa, Texas, with additional international work. The secondary stream is MARKED, a furniture and textile line launched in 2019 that commercializes select pieces from the founder's archival portfolio; it is sold via a dedicated showroom shared with the firm's offices (by appointment), a direct-to-consumer e-commerce storefront at markedny.com, and through retail partner Alt for Living in New York City and Los Angeles. Pricing is project-specific and not publicly disclosed.

The go-to-market is relationship-based enterprise field sales to high-net-worth clientele, supported by earned editorial media in leading design publications and a curated organic social presence on Instagram and Pinterest. The firm is recognized as an individual creator-driven studio rather than a scaled platform business, with simple founder-controlled ownership, no disclosed institutional shareholders, and no funding history.

Name

Mark Cunningham

Legal name

Mark Cunningham, Inc.

Website

https://markcunninghaminc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mark Cunningham, Inc. is a privately held, founder-owned luxury interior design firm in New York City, founded in 2005, serving ultra-high-net-worth residential, hotel, and commercial clients domestically and internationally, with the MARKED furniture and textile sub-brand launched in 2019.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Luxury Interior Design Services: The firm generates revenue primarily through bespoke interior design services for luxury residential clients, hotel properties, and commercial concepts. Projects span domestic and international markets.
2. MARKED Furniture and Textile Line: MARKED is a furniture line launched in 2019 featuring select favorites from Mark's archival portfolio of custom-designed pieces, project-minded textiles, and curated vintage/found objects and art. Revenue is generated through direct showroom sales and retail distribution via Alt for Living.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Mark Cunningham, Inc. is a luxury interior design firm that provides bespoke interior design services for ultra-high-net-worth residential clients, hotel properties, and commercial concepts domestically and abroad. The firm also operates MARKED, a furniture and textile line launched in 2019 that commercializes custom-designed pieces from the firm's archival portfolio, available through a dedicated Manhattan showroom, e-commerce platform, and retail partner Alt for Living.

Product overview

Mark Cunningham operates as a design firm offering luxury residential interior design services alongside a complementary furniture and textile product line. The core offering is Mark Cunningham, Inc., providing interior design, hotel design, architectural consulting, and commercial concepts. The subsidiary brand MARKED, launched in 2019, commercializes custom furniture pieces, textiles, and curated vintage/found objects derived from the firm's archival portfolio, creating a bridge between the design firm's creative work and accessible home furnishings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MARKED: A furniture line launched in 2019 featuring select favorites from Mark's archival portfolio of custom-designed pieces, a project-minded textile collection, and a curated selection of vintage and found objects and art. The MARKED showroom shares space with Mark Cunningham, Inc. offices in midtown Manhattan. The textile collection is available at Alt for Living in New York City and Los Angeles.

Products and services

• Mark Cunningham, Inc. Interior Design Services Bespoke luxury interior design services for ultra-high-net-worth residential clients, hotel properties, architectural consulting, and commercial concepts domestically and abroad. Serves homeowners in premier locations and hotel/commercial developers seeking distinctive, sophisticated design.
• MARKED Furniture and Textile Line A furniture line featuring select favorites from Mark Cunningham's archival portfolio of custom-designed pieces, a project-minded textile collection, and a curated selection of vintage and found objects and art. Available to the design community and consumers via the MARKED showroom in midtown Manhattan, the e-commerce platform markedny.com, and the retail partner Alt for Living.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Maiden Home: DTC luxury furniture brand with strong design-led positioning and direct-to-consumer e-commerce. Comparable to the MARKED product line as a designer-curated furniture offering, though Maiden Home is furniture-only with no design services arm.

Direct peers

• Bunny Williams Home: Long-established New York luxury interior design practice serving UHNW residential clients with a similarly traditional, layered aesthetic. Comparable scale and customer profile, with an adjacent product line (Bunny Williams Home) that parallels Mark's MARKED offering.
• Suzanne Kasler Interiors: Atlanta-based luxury interior designer with AD100 standing and an adjacent product line sold through major retailers. Comparable founder-led brand and DTC product extension model to Mark's MARKED line.
• Victoria Hagan Interiors: New York-based luxury interior design firm with a comparable UHNW residential and hospitality client base. Routinely included alongside Mark Cunningham on AD100 and Elle Decor A-List top-designer rankings, offering directly overlapping services to the same buyer persona.
• Jamie Drake / Drake Design Associates: NY-based AD100 luxury interior design practice serving residential and hospitality clients in the same UHNW tier. Comparable boutique scale and editorial reputation to Mark Cunningham, Inc.
• Alex Papachristidis Interiors: Boutique NYC interior design practice led by a named founder with AD100 recognition. Comparable in scale, customer segment, and bespoke project-based delivery model.
• Stephen Sills Associates: NYC-based luxury interior design firm with a founder-led creative identity and a roster of AD100 accolades. Serves a similar UHNW residential and hospitality clientele and competes head-to-head for marquee NYC and Hamptons projects.
• Thomas O'Brien / Aero Studios: NY-based designer with a parallel dual model of bespoke interior design plus a curated product business (Aero, Target collaborations). Directly comparable to Mark Cunningham's design-services-plus-MARKED structure.
• Ken Fulk: High-profile luxury design firm spanning residential, hospitality, and commercial projects in major U.S. cities. Comparable in founder-led branding and brand-extension ambition, with a larger hospitality footprint than Mark Cunningham.
• David Kleinberg Design Associates: NYC luxury interior design firm serving UHNW residential and hospitality clients with similar AD100/Elle Decor editorial positioning. Direct head-to-head competitor for premier Manhattan and Hamptons projects.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/markcunninghaminc
• Pinterestpinterest.com/markny

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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