Chelsea Loft

Decorative display on a wooden wall shelf with a large clear quartz crystal cluster, a small black bowl, and a set of keys with keychains.

Objective: Transform an 1800 sq ft commercial loft space into a music executive’s home providing both a setting for glamorous entertaining and a cocoon for her personal recuperation.

A beige living room with a cream sofa with pink cushions, a white ottoman with a stack of books and a vase of flowers, beige curtains, a large window with blinds, a potted plant on the windowsill, and an abstract painting on the wall.

A deliberately restrained color palette and purposeful selection of clean-lined furniture provides the necessary backdrop to a broader exploration of line and texture with a specific intention – to simultaneously generate calm and stimulate awareness.

Visiting this loft one is gently struck by a series of delicate objects and refined surface treatments, all intentionally uncommon details that remain gently harmonious:

  • embedded embroidery peeking through the Foyer's plaster wall finish,

  • the tone-on-tone graffiti-like print on the Main Area ceiling,

  • the muted rainbow within a Missoni fishnet window sheer,

  • the supersized photo of delicate mushroom gills,

  • a disparate collection of elegant new & old candlesticks

  • floating shelves that appear to extend from one room into another 

A calming harmony expressed via line and texture.

Modern dining room with a dark wood table, white chairs, and a large abstract artwork on the wall featuring soft, flowing lines.

The diaphanous overlay of luxe hand-crafted finishes onto a stern elemental background created an atmosphere entirely her own.

Living room with white sectional sofa, brown pillows, glass water pitcher, decorative glassware, and a tray on a white coffee table. The wall behind has a framed artwork and wall-mounted white reading lamps. Large windows with beige blinds and dark curtains, decorated with a white sculpture and a vase with flowers on the window sill.

The festival of textures continues in the Media Room with mohair velvet cushions on a taut leather sofa, fine silk wallpaper on the ceiling & the shaggiest of silk shag rugs on the floor and the bloodiest of ox-blood grasscloth on the walls.

Living room viewed through doorway with built-in shelves on each side filled with books and decorative items. The room features a white sectional sofa, a red rug, and large windows with beige blinds, dark curtains, and a vase with flowers on the windowsill.

Floating library shelves flank both the left and right sides of the passageway to the Media Room, both inside and outside the Media Room.

The passageway is a Library and vice versa.

A massive single pocket door (not shown) can close-off the Media Room.

The glass panel of that massive door is laminated with hand-made ricepaper — essentially a contemporary and sturdy version of a traditional Shoji screen.

Kitchen view through a doorway with white walls and dark wood flooring, showing stainless steel appliances, wooden cabinets, and a glimpse of a dining area with curtains.

The well-equipped Kitchen was composed with broad strokes: stainless steel cabinets below, mahogany cabinets above, black mirror in between and a deep red paint overhead.

The pull placement presents an unexpected and yet effective alignment.

Stainless steel kitchen cabinets with long vertical handles, next to a dark countertop, in a modern kitchen setting.

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