Living Room • 930 Fifth Ave Unit 11A, New York, NY 10021
The room now holds a diverse collection of antique and custom pieces. Materials show age and tell stories. Each object helps build a unique personal history. Specific vignettes invite close observation.
A deeply upholstered sectional anchors the main seating area. An irregular live-edge wood table replaces the old one. Mismatched antique armchairs now define the window area. Each piece adds to a rich, layered environment.
The room displays a lifetime of collected stories.
Design Philosophy
The design emphasizes a sense of history and personal narrative. Collected Eclecticism guides the selection of diverse objects and furniture. Expressive Patina highlights materials that age gracefully and show their past. Evocative Vignettes arrange these pieces into small, meaningful displays.
Spatial Narrative
Your eye first lands on the deeply upholstered sectional. You walk past a gallery wall filled with artifacts and stories. You settle into an antique armchair, surrounded by collected treasures.
Light Study
Morning light streams broadly through the large window, illuminating the sectional and live-edge table. In the evening, adjustable lamps create focused beams, highlighting specific objects and softening shadows. This selective lighting emphasizes individual stories within the room.
Living Vignette
You lean back in the worn velvet slipper chair, a finger tracing the grain of the adjacent cane-backed piece. The faint scent of aged wood and old books fills the air.
Material Palette
Patinated Leather: This leather feels soft to the touch and deepens in color and texture over years of use.
Live-Edge Wood: The wood slab retains its natural form, bringing an organic, rugged feel that shows its origin and age.
Reclaimed Metal: Found architectural fragments feel rough and solid, carrying the marks of past structures and use.
