Nicholas Calcott
At Home With a Brooklyn Restaurant Designer, Nominated for a James Beard Award
If there can be said to be a Brooklyn look in the restaurant world today, Matthew Maddy is at least partially responsible for it. Many of the borough’s most beloved and stylish eateries sport warm, eclectic and detail-rich interiors created by the designer-builder-entrepreneur: the tile-adorned cocktail den Weather Up, name-checked on “Girls”; the Fort Greene institution No. 7; Grand Army, a new project whose partners include the owners of Mile End and Rucola and which just opened; and the casually elegant Colonia Verde, for which Maddy is nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Restaurant Design.