01 — Residential Interior

Mercer Street Loft

Location: SoHo, New York
Scope: Residential Interior
Year: 2024
Area: 4,200 sq ft

A cast-iron-district loft on Mercer Street, reorganised around its original timber columns and returned to the long, open light of a working floor.

Sunlit loft with tall arched windows, exposed brick walls and a long walnut dining table

Note

Original structure

Previous renovations had divided the floor into six small rooms. We removed every partition that was not load-bearing and let the double row of heart-pine columns define the plan instead. Sleeping and bathing spaces now sit in two freestanding volumes that stop short of the ceiling, so the full length of the loft is always legible.

Loft library with timber ceiling beams, a rolling ladder, full-height shelving and a worn Persian rug — The library wall, with a rolling ladder on a blackened steel rail.

Cluster of spun brass pendant lights hung at varied heights — Spun brass pendants over the dining table.

Kitchen with a green marble island, pale oak stools and concrete-grey cabinetry

Note

A single stone

The kitchen island is cut from one block of Verde Alpi marble, its veining book-matched around the corners. Everything else in the kitchen is deliberately quiet — concrete-grey cabinetry, pale oak stools — so that the stone can carry the room.

Working light

Lofts like this were built for daylight. The design simply gets out of its way: low furniture, no upper cabinets on the window side, and lighting that reads as a warm afterglow once the sun has gone.

Credits

Interiors: Marlow & Finch
Contractor: Halden Building Co.
Stone: Canal Street Marble Works
Photography: Placeholder imagery via Unsplash