Color and Pattern Take Center Stage in This New York City Apartment

Rick Magliano
Photo credit: Brittany Ambridge

Photo credit: Brittany Ambridge

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This could be the initially apartment for Lucinda and Theodore May possibly, but it is much less starter home and extra so a lifelong accomplishment. “I grew up in a prewar constructing in New York and ever since I was a minor woman, I have been obsessed with flooring ideas and lobbies,” confides home owner Lucinda May possibly. Handily, that fascination performed out very well into adulthood where May well worked as director of communications for Peter Pennoyer Architects. At the tony, classicist firm, she received access to Pennoyer’s tasteful issue of watch and his architectural library (in excess of 10,000 volumes!) when also crossing paths with her potential decorator, Lizzie Bailey. At the time, Lizzie labored for Pennoyer’s spouse, Katie Ridder, an acclaimed decorator renown for joltingly colorful tasks juxtaposed with classic things.

Photo credit: Brittany Ambridge

Photograph credit score: Brittany Ambridge

In 2019, when Lucinda and Theodore May possibly commenced apartment hunting, Lucinda narrowed the research down by ground plans and places, top them to this building with a limestone facade built by Pleasants Pennington on the Higher East Aspect. As if the lobby adorned by Dorothy Draper wasn’t adequate on its possess, the condominium appealed even far more. Might states the conventional ground program had, “separate community entertaining areas and non-public residing places flowing by way of a large entrance corridor, as well as unique casement home windows in the course of and lots of crafted-in bookshelves.” She adds, “It overlooks St. James Church which is normally pin-drop silent except if the choir is training.” With the aspiration apartment secured, the Mays sought to make it ideal for them with the support of Lizzie Bailey, basic principle of Tale Street Studio.

“Lucinda and I currently experienced an limitless, many years-extended text chain with illustrations or photos of items that we equally loved,” suggests Bailey, who regarded the influence that this Manhattan prewar making should have on the decor. “My spouse, Laura Stanley, and I have made a design vocabulary rooted in traditional decorating that never reads as extremely critical,” says Bailey. The decorator states she aimed to “establish an overarching perspective” to the May’s house and use daring colour and surprising art to “inject a youthful edge into the somewhat formal spaces.”

Bailey states that the Mays were being open up minded when it came to her style and design concepts: “I uncovered to give up declaring, ‘you could assume I am insane’ when proposing a crazy-sounding concept like upholstering a headboard with a whippet-printed fabric, but Lucinda was normally up for it.” Those people wild thoughts both of those enjoy up and lighten up the severe antiques that Might and Bailey worked diligently to collect. Situation in point: the Egyptian Revival cabinet spotted in an auction catalog that’s now positioned in the May’s lobby. The library’s sofa cloth (Pierre Frey’s Monuments d’Egypte) cheekily salutes the auction get. Lucinda also introduced a want record of wallpapers and fabrics to use in the condominium, which Lizzie wove all over with relieve. Katie Ridder’s Scraffito wallpaper gives the lobby an architectural backbone and Bailey states the golden yellow colorway is “like Vitamin D, in spite of there staying no purely natural mild,” even though the painted ground anchors the area “like a rug that can be simply mopped.”

Photo credit: Brittany Ambridge

Photograph credit score: Brittany Ambridge

The cobalt residing area ( with a custom made glaze on top) features lemon-yellow silk draperies repurposed from Lucinda’s parent’s property, a fuchsia strie velvet sofa, and a fake-bois painted hearth mantel. Adjacent to the saturated residing room and putting foyer, Bailey turned the library into a solid, but silent sitting down home stuffed with tonal plums and greens. “Sometimes it’s best to lean into a dim area and make it clubby and cozy,” suggests Bailey. Off of the main rooms, Bailey eased up on the color palette. She says, “[though] the non-public areas are far more subdued…this condominium is phenomenal for entertaining.”

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