Dan Burns, Principal & Creative Director

Guided by a refined understanding of how people live and gather, Dan Burns creates modern interiors that balance quiet sophistication with warmth and intention. With more than two decades of experience leading award-winning design studios, his work reflects a global perspective informed by architecture, fashion and culture. Each project unfolds through close client collaboration, resulting in expressive, enduring spaces that feel both considered and deeply personal.

Dan has worked with AD100 and ELLEDECOR A-LIST interior and architectural firms on the East and West Coasts, successfully leading high-end residential and retail projects in Manhattan, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Hamptons, Miami, Los Angeles, Aspen, Nantucket and Jupiter, FL.

His interiors have been featured in U.S. and international design publications including Elle Décor, Interior Design Magazine, Marie Claire Maison, Interiors Magazine, New York Spaces, and Dwell Magazine. Dan’s work from his last two firms are now featured in Rizzoli books, NICOLE HOLLIS CURATED INTERIORS and WORKSHOP APD HOMES.

In 2004, Dan founded JARLATHDAN, a design studio and home store in the Hamptons, that was featured in Elle Décor as the “New Chic on the Beach” with seasonal curated collections of furniture, products, and accessories. Jarlathdan’s success was built on Dan’s extensive experience in retail design and branding, having conceived and launched Manhattan flagship retail stores for Theory, Helmut Lang, and Rebecca Taylor, and led visual merchandizing teams for J. Crew and Brooks Brothers.

Dan has earned degrees in Architecture from the prestigious Pratt Institute School of Architecture in New York City, Interior Design from the Philadelphia College of Textile and Sciences and a Culinary Arts Degree from the Le Cordon Bleu Institute.