03 — Residential Interior

Park Avenue Residence

Location: Upper East Side, New York
Scope: Residential Interior
Year: 2023
Area: 5,100 sq ft

A prewar Park Avenue apartment reworked as a sequence of calm, softly proportioned rooms for a family living with a significant collection of post-war art.

Quiet grey living room with floor-to-ceiling glazing, a low modular sofa and dark oak shelving

Note

Walls for art

The apartment was planned from the collection outward. Door openings were shifted to give each major work an uninterrupted wall, and a discreet picture-rail system is recessed into the plaster cornice so that the hang can change without a single new hole.

White plaster archway opening onto a room with a black leather sofa — A new plaster arch between the gallery and the library.

Sculptural ceramic table lamp with a linen shade beside a glass candle holder — Studio ceramics and linen in the library.

Open living room with an oak-clad wall, pale sofa and a view through to the kitchen

Note

Oak and shadow

In the family room a single wall of fumed oak panelling conceals storage, a bar and the television. The panels are grooved at irregular intervals, so the wall reads as texture in raking light rather than as cabinetry.

Quiet by design

Acoustic plaster ceilings, lined curtains and wool rugs make the apartment unusually quiet for its address. The result feels less like a showpiece than a well-kept private gallery that a family happens to live in.

Credits

Interiors: Marlow & Finch
Contractor: Lenox Hill Interiors
Art advisory: Clement Fine Art
Photography: Placeholder imagery via Unsplash