And after that the Maria Pergay that I believed would remain in the living room wound up in the gallery. It speaks to that delight of collecting and trusting your eye. Often you believe you understand where it’s going to go, but the magic of design is allowing things to take their natural course and find their natural location. If a piece pulls at your heartstrings, it belongs in your home. Even if you feel like stylistically it doesn’t work, it will work because it’s an expression of you.Are there any enjoyable DIY aspects you can share about the home?When we ordered
the mosaics for our restroom floorings and our entranceway, they were so electrical white. This home is so historic [that] the color needed to be an ivory or a cream, something that was a little softer than an electric, almost-blue white. So we had an entire tea-staining session where there were various vats of tea, like English Breakfast, Earl Grey and we checked different soaking times on the stone– eight hours, 6 hours, overnight– to turn the white mosaics cream.What are 3 adjectives to describe this brand-new place that you wouldn’t utilize to explain your Brooklyn home?Refined, intentional, restrained. The appeal of this duration and design remains in the restraint.Do you have pointers for rethinking little spaces?Throughout the apartment,
there’s this datum line that runs three quarters of the way up the wall. In 2 restrooms above that datum line, I did all mirror. So the upper walls are mirror, but even the ceiling is mirror. Not only is the light bouncing, however it also offers this gorgeous impression that the area keeps going on and on, and it really makes a small area or a little room appear bigger. There’s so much hoax that you might do with mirrors if you really want, and it doesn’t need to be whole walls and ceiling.