This airy SoHo loft was a cookie-cutter three-bedroom in a new development. The 4,400-square-foot floor plan was allowed to breathe by instating more gracious spatial proportions and flowier circulation. Sheetrock was replaced with white-lacquered panels, white-oak partitions, and glass pocket doors.

To provide grandeur to the standard-issue anodized-aluminum windows, the strategy was to “thicken” the walls around them and darken their boxy depth in a manner reminiscent of Donald Judd sculptures. This added depth creates the illusion you’re in a masonry building and the final result is akin to dioramas framing views of the neighboring cast-iron historic buildings.
Eschewing drop ceilings and recessed down lights in favor of exposing the full volume of the space, custom luminous LED blades made of plaster —rectangular in the living room, circular in the dining area— lend activation overhead. These De Stijl–like overlapping graphics let the ceiling surface become its own artistic plane.
Other than the living room’s Pierre Paulin sofa and the Maarten Baas dining chairs, furnishings are custom, designed by the firm to suit the newly salon-like spaces.
Category

Project Code

02519

Photographer

Michael Moran / Otto

Architect

Shelton Mindel

Category

Project Code

02519

Photographer

Michael Moran / Otto