Inside The Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach 2026
At the 2026 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach, Reflectel Mirror TV collaborated with three designers who approached technology the same way they approached everything else in their rooms: as something to be made beautiful.
Every February, Palm Beach reclaims its title as the design world’s most glamorous laboratory. The Kips Bay Decorator Show House has long been where the industry’s finest designers come to take chances. The 2026 edition was no exception, with twenty-three designers reimagining the waterfront Intracoastal House at 3410 North Flagler Drive and the intimate Palm Cottage directly across the street.
The result was a collection of spaces ranging from hushed and refined to bold and expressive.
Reflectel Mirror TV participated once again this year as a Silver Sponsor, with our bespoke Mirror TVs featured in rooms by Lori Morris Design, Tartan & Toile, and River Brook. The collaborations that emerged across these three distinct spaces offer a quiet case study in how thoughtfully integrated technology can disappear into a room rather than dominate it.
These are the three Kips Bay Palm Beach 2026 spaces where Reflectel Mirror TV disappeared into the design.
Lori Morris Design: The Gilded Palm
Stand at the entrance of Lori Morris’s lounge in the Intracoastal House and it takes a moment before you can look anywhere but up. From the ceiling hang chandeliers fashioned to resemble palm fronds, each frond a cascade of crystal. As House Beautiful put it, they take your breath away.
The Gilded Palm is an exercise in warmth expressed at a dramatic scale. The walls are hand-painted in a floor-to-ceiling chinoiserie mural of gold leaf and silver, a landscape of trees and mist that catches and holds Florida light differently at every hour of the day.
The palette of champagne golds, creams, and blush is one Morris has described as an ode to the movement of coastal light itself. A Stuart coffee table anchors the room, while the surrounding furniture is custom and oversized in the manner of the LMD house style, lush pieces meant to be lived in rather than admired from a doorway.
43″ Gilded Shaped Signature Reflectel Mirror TV
Against this backdrop, Reflectel’s 43-inch Mirror TV, set within a gilded Signature Shaped frame and mounted above a Baroque gold console between a pair of brass lamps, functions less as a screen than as another reflective surface in the composition.
Powered off, it reads as a mirror reflecting the room back on itself: the mural, the chandeliers, the light. Powered on, it becomes a television that belongs precisely where it has been placed, integrated rather than imposed.
Morris’s reaction was succinct: “It’s fabulous.” A bespoke detail within a richly layered space.
A room designed to seduce the senses and invite guests to linger.
River Brook: The Tiki Tent
Step outside the Intracoastal House and emerge into the transportive Tiki Tent. River Brook’s Tiki Tent is a poolside cabana that draws from the glamour of 1960s Palm Beach. It is inspired by the unhurried leisure Slim Aarons spent a career photographing, that particular sense that a party has been going on since sometime in the previous decade and shows no sign of stopping.
The tent is lined in striped Schumacher canvas that billows upward toward a thatched palm roof. A pink quartzite bar anchors the space. A stone urn overflows with lemons. Zebra-print chairs, fringed ottomans in magenta and burgundy, and abstract paintings hung directly on the striped tent walls sit beside framed artwork in gold.
The energy is abundant, deliberate, and somehow entirely coherent.
27″ Gilded Carved Tabernacle Reflectel Mirror TV | First image: Laurey Glenn
Reflectel placed a bespoke 27-inch Mirror TV in an ornate Tabernacle Gilded Carved frame among the paintings already hanging on the tent wall. The frame’s carved classical columns and gilded surface put it in immediate conversation with the other gold-framed art nearby.
Switched off, the mirror surface catches the tent’s stripes and the warm light within, making it genuinely difficult to distinguish from the framed paintings beside it. River Brook’s team described the piece as “technology that blends seamlessly into the design,” blurring the line between artwork and television.
The installation makes a subtle argument: even in the most exuberant of spaces, a television need not dominate. It can simply belong within a setting designed for unwinding, entertaining, and lingering in the Palm Beach air.
Tartan & Toile: The Entertainment Command Center
Of the three spaces, the one designed by Philadelphia-based Lucy O’Brien of Tartan & Toile may be the most quietly brilliant.
In the Intracoastal House, O’Brien was given an awkwardly shaped hallway and water heater room just off the kitchen, not a conventional canvas. Her solution was to honor it.
Drawing inspiration from Marjorie Merriweather Post, the Palm Beach socialite and consummate hostess whose entertaining instincts were legendary, O’Brien layered the space into a series of richly detailed vignettes.
Hand-painted de Gournay walls, a ceiling crafted from beach mats brought in from Mexico, beautiful drapery, and a cleverly concealed water heater transformed what could have been a liability into a sanctuary.
27″ Gilded Signature Series Reflectel Mirror TV | Photos by Laurey Glenn
At the center of it all sits a lacquered orange armoire converted into a bar. Its doors open to reveal a 27-inch Reflectel Mirror TV set within the cabinet’s interior. The frame comes from Reflectel’s Signature Series, a hand-finished gold profile with clean architectural lines chosen deliberately for this placement.
Where the Tabernacle Mirror TV frame in the Tiki Tent announces itself with carved columns and ornate gilding, this piece is refined and flush, designed to read as a bar back rather than a focal point. It is a bespoke decision, the frame selected not just for beauty but for the specific role it plays within the composition of the room.
Flanked by bottles of gin and bourbon, a marble telephone, an orchid in bloom, and a small lamp with a patterned shade, the Mirror TV functions as the back of the bar.
A reflective surface when off. An ambient display when on. Galerie Magazine described it as hidden in plain sight, which is precisely the point. In a space designed for entertaining, O’Brien created a bar that thinks.
A small space transformed into an inviting, well-traveled sanctuary.
On Hidden Technology and the Rooms That Absorb It
Across all three Kips Bay Palm Beach spaces, each designer made the same fundamental choice. The television was treated as a design object first and a screen second, especially in interiors where a TV would not normally belong.
That is the promise of a bespoke Mirror TV done well. It does not ask a room to accommodate it. Instead, it adapts to the room, as though it could never have existed anywhere else. It is a standard Reflectel has held to since the beginning, and one these three designers understood intuitively from the moment the collaboration began.
Meet Reflectel Mirror TV Founder Elizabeth Goldfeder
The Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach closes March 24. If these rooms have sparked inspiration, there is still time to see them in person.
Reflectel founder Elizabeth Goldfeder will be at the show house March 21 through March 23, the final weekend before the show house closes.
If you have not had a chance to experience the spaces firsthand, this is the moment. Stop by to tour the rooms, see the installations up close, and meet the woman behind Reflectel’s bespoke Mirror TVs.
It is also a wonderful opportunity to support the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County, the organizations that make this event possible each year.
Reflectel is proud to donate 5 percent of all Mirror TV sales generated through the show house to the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club.
The show house is located at:
3410 North Flagler Drive
West Palm Beach, Florida 33407
The 2026 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach drew coverage from Veranda (the official national media partner), Galerie, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, Aspire Design and Home, and Cottages & Gardens, among others.
About Reflectel Mirror TV
Reflectel Mirror TV at Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach | Third image: Laurey Glenn
Handcrafted in Reflectel’s Tribeca workshop, each Mirror TV is built around optical-quality mirror glass that reads as a true framed mirror when off and reveals a high-definition display when on. Every piece is made to order, finished with museum-quality framing, and designed to integrate into the architecture of a space rather than compete with it.
To explore Reflectel’s full collection of bespoke Mirror TVs and custom framed televisions, visit reflectel.com.
