This full-floor apartment in a prewar building has undergone a significant transformation, converting a series of traditional, disconnected rooms into a more gracious open and spacious living space. The redesign prioritizes light and flow, creating a cohesive environment.

Finishes render a refined aesthetic featuring dark stained wide plank oak floors and gallery white walls that beautifully showcase the owner's art collection. Carefully selected stone slab accents punctuate the design. Meticulous attention to detail, alignments and connectivity enhances the overall harmony of the residence.

The main living spaces are framed by two thickened parallel walls built around the apartment's existing fireplaces. The walls stand free of their surrounding perimeter and give visual structure to the space while integrating features for display, storage, and mechanical systems.

The kitchen has been thoughtfully enlarged and relocated to align with the living and dining areas. No longer tucked away as a place of service, this new kitchen creates a seamless connection on equal footing with the living and dining areas, transforming it into a place of gathering for the family. 

This apartment in a prewar building was completely redesigned to create a spacious, open, and light-filled environment for a young family with an extensive Swedish Art collection.

The design features wide plank fumed oak flooring which flows throughout the apartment. Unique highlights include exposed cast iron columns, bespoke millwork elements, a single freestanding marble slab in the primary bath, a warm wood plank wall in the kitchen and treetop views.

The thoughtful layout places an open main living area and primary bedroom along the large windows that face Central Park. The rooms are separated by a pair of floor-to-ceiling pocket doors that flank millwork designed to float within the apartment’s envelope, fostering fluidity between these spaces and enhancing the overall sense of expansiveness.

The plan is precisely configured, navigating a challenging network of building risers and shafts. The clarity of spaces and their relationships to each other is an integral part of how the space is experienced. Carefully choreographed vistas through the apartment draw the eye back to the Park.

Nina Seirafi Interior Design contributed custom furnishings alongside a curated selection of vintage pieces and fabrics enriching the overall aesthetic.

The house is situated on a stunning 25-acre property.

While the farmhouse has an appealing scale and massing, it suffered from a lack of coherence due to its varied materials, colors, and an outdated, overly stylized window arrangement.

To enhance the home's performance and aesthetics, we first streamlined the material palette and made a few strategic adjustments to its layout. We also replaced all the homes windows and installed a new geothermal heating and air-conditioning system. Finally we replace the exterior siding and unified it with a fresh coat of black paint - with the exception of the recessed entrance porch, which we rendered in natural ash.

This renovation transforms one of the buildings two bedroom apartments making the most of its expansive views. The ceilings have been raised to eleven feet expressing the full depth of the buildings steel structure. Along the exterior curtainwall, a large frosted glass pocket door provides a second entry to the primary bedroom while expanding access to views of the park and midtown. A new gold leaf sliding wall can be deployed to create a separate guest area when needed. Other glass doors provide varying degrees of transparency, translucency and reflectivity. Quartzite walls and counters along with walnut floors and millwork add to the rich material pallet.

This renovation and addition is in the design phase

Work in progress

In the new work from home environment, the owner, a New York creative in the film industry, found himself needing to entertain and host visiting collaborators at his family home and studio in rural Connecticut. The small guest house occupies an area on his property along the approach to the main house. The guesthouse is a simple composition of two parallel figural concrete walls with a simple cantilevered roof spanning between them. A small stone patio off the main living space is orientated toward the most private views of the property. Corten steel accents frame the entry and screen views of the interior from the main house.