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Partner-in-Charge: David Sherman
Contractors: Artego Inc., Massartre Ltd., Gary Lecce
Photographer: Catherine Tighe
Phase I Completed: 1995, Phase II Completed: 1999
This client was interested in transforming a 900 square foot loft space on Madison Square into a compartmentalized apartment with a distinct bedroom and study/guest room to complement the living/dining/cooking areas, and then four years later, in combining the earlier renovation with an additional apartment next door. The final result combines aspects of private rooms and spacious loft-like interiors.
The design features a large, plaster-covered wall which divides the shell of the apartment in two, and a series of articulated panels which create a more transparent interior facade. The forced perspective from the entry, a rare axial view up Madison Avenue, is exaggerated by the intervention of the new plaster wall. The color palette was organized around the light reflecting off the limestone surface of the Met Life building across the street.
The kitchen allowed the Architect to experiment with a variety of new materials, such as a synthetic stone countertop composed of quartz deposits floating in an epoxy matrix, which has the visual appeal of limestone but is tougher than granite. The upper cabinets are custom designed and built to feature beechwood-framed acrylic doors, trimmed in aluminum, to match an inexpensive set of lower cabinets mass-produced in beechwood. A large-scale variation of these systems describes an interior Master Bedroom suite.
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