Based in Tulsa, Justice Quinn has garnered a steady reputation for restoration and design inspired by Art Deco architecture and the love of furniture and objects.

“It really started with furniture — collecting and buying,” he says. “I probably started some 10 years ago and in doing that, you just develop a taste and you learn what you love. There came a moment after just buying and dealing furniture that I realized I lost passion as soon as it would leave my hands. Then I thought, after some conversations with friends, ‘What could it look like to start decorating with the pieces that I find?’ And so that’s really how it came about. It was the clients early on who saw the vision that I had for an interior and allowed me to create those interiors with a majority of the stuff that I would source around the United States. Since then, it’s just been one project after the other through word of mouth.”

LEFT: Art Deco furniture and objects curated and styled by JQI. RIGHT: Restoration of The Oath Studio, designed in 1925 by Bruce Goff for Adah Robinson, revitalized by Rod Yancy in collaboration with JQI.

Having a love for Deco architecture and living in the global Art Deco hub that is Tulsa, Quinn has been able to take on projects that align with his natural vision for an interior.

“Bruce Goff was a hero of mine long before I even got my start in interiors,” Quinn says. “There were reasons behind the way he designed the way that he did. He’s a small-town Kansas boy, and you know, being a small-town boy from Oilton, Oklahoma, I felt some similarities there.”

His latest project, The Oath Studio, was a year-long restoration of a house built in the 1920s by Goff and architect Joseph R. Koberling Jr. for their teacher and artist Adah Robinson.

“It’s just a special property,” Quinn says, adding how fortunate he felt “To be able to work on a project like that with my client, Rod Yancy, who’s an entrepreneur in Tulsa and was just incredible to work with. He trusted my vision. We collaborated to do our best interpretation of restoration with a little bit of innovation where we could. A project like that is why I started my firm, so that’ll long be one of my favorite projects.” 

Coming from a place of pure love for what he does, Quinn focuses on giving clients a one-of-a-kind experience, and to show that you can do more rather than less. 

Follow his work at @justicequinn.interiors, and online at justicequinninteriors.com.

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