Great Jones

Rita Hazan—the colorist who makes Beyoncé’s hair a spectacular shade of golden honey and who last year coiffed Katy Perry in a riot of pink, purple, and blue—lives only in homes that are black, white, and gray, except for a three-month mistake when she painted her apartment blue. So, last October, when she moved into a sun-splashed 2,500-square-foot loft on a quiet cobblestone street in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood, she had bought only a white bed and hadn’t yet figured out what to do with the space. A few weeks later, she ran into an old friend, the interior designer Nate Berkus, whom she had met 10 years ago while appearing as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She told him about the apartment, and he said, “I know who you are: black, white, neutral, art deco, urban chic.” Hired on the spot, Berkus asked if he could bring in his new beau, and interior design partner, Jeremiah Brent, who had previously designed stylist Rachel Zoe’s home. It would be the couple’s first collaboration.