Frenetic energy is a polarizing aspect of city living, but it suits Jordy Murray just fine. Growing up between the States and Australia, she used to visit an uncle who lived in Manhattan’s Gramercy neighborhood. “I didn’t know who or what would bring me to New York,” she says—a modeling contract, as it turned out—“but I feel like I’m going to be one of those lifers. I’m so patriotic about the city, it’s embarrassing.” During the homebound stretch of the pandemic, Murray solved her restlessness by getting a dog and collecting vintage furniture for resale. Five years later, she operates Friends of Form, a design studio with a slate of residential products, and has her own live-work space inside a former painter’s studio in Williamsburg. She credits her modeling career with stoking her dual interests in set decoration and beauty. She is religious about sunscreen and calls herself the guinea pig of her friend group when it comes to in-office treatments. “I take insanely good care of my skin.”
