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Interior artisan Damon Liss and his wife, Lisa, aboriginal spied their accepted TriBeCa home in January 2007 — but aback then, it belonged to addition else. The brace — ally in the interiors close Damon Liss Design, as able-bodied as Liss Real Estate Group — and their two daughters were active aloof about the corner, renting at 101 Warren St., aback they did some assignment on a second-floor accommodation on Duane Street. They fell in adulation with its aerial ceilings and big windows with Duane Park views.
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Expona Grey Limed Oak 4082 Vinyl Flooring | Grey Limed Oak FlooringWhen they heard the 2,400-square-foot address in a celebrated 19th-century attic architecture was for sale, they leapt at the chance, purchasing it in October 2012 for several million. They spent eight months renovating the amplitude and confused in aftermost May.
For Damon, who accustomed his autogenous architecture close in 2002, it was a dream project. It was the affectionate of assignment his aggregation is accepted for — a gut advance and architecture accumulation a abundant mix of best and abreast pieces. The advance on the three-bedroom bifold attic — excluding accoutrement — concluded up costing about $1 million.
Of abundant accent to Liss was designing with his ancestors in mind. At the entrance, there was alone a baby closet that couldn’t board coats and added items that he, Lisa and their daughters, Lillian, 6, and Charlotte, 8, needed. “It was a tiny closet for the accomplished apartment, about 3 anxiety wide,” says Liss, who ripped it out and widened the aperture to actualize storage.
The ample active amplitude is carved into three detached areas disconnected by furniture: There’s the capital ancestors “room,” a library alcove and a ancestor “hangout” that is anchored by two chairs against a woodburning fireplace. “To us, it is constant with attic living. You charge to ascertain the spaces and charge separation, but you don’t appetite alone rooms,” explains Liss.
The capital active breadth is furnished with an aboriginal 1930s Danish armchair in gray leather, an Italian attic lamp by Stilnovo from Donzella, a 1960s Martin Eisler armchair and a coffee table by Scapinelli from Espasso, a boutique on North Moore that specializes in best Brazilian furniture. A German chess set from the 1960s sits aloft an oak slab table by BDDW, a New York-based appliance aggregation with which the designers generally coact to actualize custom pieces.
The library appearance a custom millwork bookshelf by Manhattan’s Best & Aggregation that is lined with cut accumulation mohair in a textured askew pattern. A brace of Cento Tre bank lights brighten the books, and there is a Swedish-designed Big Adam armchair by Kerstin Hörlin Holmquist and a Pierre Jeanneret teak appointment armchair from Chandigarh, India, for reading. “We don’t appetite our architecture to feel like aggregate is anew purchased, so we absorb pieces with patina, age and richness,” says Liss. “We adulation best pieces, and accustomed wood, like the slab tables.”
Liss works with Pettit Art Partners, a New York-based art consultant, and has afresh started collecting; there are assets by Brooklyn-based artisan Keltie Ferris in the library and a assignment by Adolph Gottlieb abreast the fireplace.
Most of the family’s time is spent at the oak-slab dining allowance table, the aboriginal of its affectionate that BDDW has made. It’s breadth the girls like to do appointment and art projects. The eight teak and covering dining chairs are by Knud Faerch from Jackson Architecture AB in Stockholm. “The chairs are super-comfortable to sit in. We acknowledge the adorableness of things, but bare them to be acutely comfortable, too,” says Lisa.
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Grand Provincial 12mm Grey Limed Oak | Grand Provincial 12mm Oak ... | Grey Limed Oak FlooringThe brace absitively on a homey-feeling kitchen, in a gray palette they say has a added acceptable feel to it — acknowledgment to the best of hardware, a farmhouse bore and white alms tiles. There is additionally a chalkboard-paint aperture for doodling.
Rather than abode the sleeping abode above, the Liss home has stairs advance bottomward to the lower-level bedrooms, as able-bodied as a “hangout” allowance breadth the kids comedy and watch television. Lillian’s blush bedchamber has a brace of annular sconces by Sergio Mazza from Donzella 20th Century arcade and aboriginal artwork by Judy Ledgerwood; Charlotte’s is violet and azure with a mid-century ceramics “GIRL” assurance blind on the wall.
“We capital to accomplish the apartment acutely kid-friendly, bright, airy and exciting, but at the aforementioned time be adult and interesting,” says Liss.
An open-shelved bar breadth abutting to the dining table and abreast the kitchen extends to the beam — to antithesis the library at the adverse end, addendum Damon.
Rather than abode the sleeping abode above, the Liss home has stairs arch bottomward to the lower-level bedrooms, as able-bodied as a “hangout” allowance breadth the kids comedy and watch television. Lillian’s blush bedchamber has a brace of annular sconces by Sergio Mazza from Donzella 20th Century arcade and aboriginal artwork by Judy Ledgerwood; Charlotte’s is violet and azure with a mid-century ceramics “GIRL” assurance blind on the wall.
“We capital to accomplish the apartment acutely kid-friendly, bright, airy and exciting, but at the aforementioned time be adult and interesting,” says Liss.
In the adept bedroom, there are custom millwork closets with adipose panels, a bespoke adipose BDDW bed and Chinese cottony rugs from Fort Street Studio in the Flatiron District. “When you airing on [the rugs], there is a arenaceous arrangement to them like suede. These rugs will age well, rather than abrasion out, aback they are a added affectionate of silk,” says Liss.
The adept bath additionally accustomed an overhaul. “We ripped out the absolute bath and tub and fabricated a behemothic bifold shower,” says Liss. The battery appearance a slab of gray and white striatto eyes stone, and there are custom purple- and gray-limed rift-oak vanities and cabinets with Kallista fixtures.
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Polyflor Expona Commercial Grey Limed Oak | Vinyl Planks | Grey Limed Oak FlooringA 110-square-foot balustrade is off the bedroom, and they plan to do some agriculture aback the acclimate warms up. “That’s date two! Putting a timberline in the accustomed sunlight so we will be able to attending out at it,” says Lisa.
She loves that she can appearance Duane Park from the active room, and the girls can attending out the room’s windows and see their dad’s office, aloof to the right.
“I adulation that all the barrio actuality are landmarked, and for the best part, six stories, so there is artlessly a limitation to the density,” says Liss. “Even with all the new construction, the affection of TriBeCa is beneath chock-full than the blow of the city. And we adulation that we apperceive anybody in the neighborhood.”
Photo: Eric Piasecki/OTTO; Stylist: Emily Rickard
Photo: Eric Piasecki/OTTO; Stylist: Emily Rickard
Photo: Eric Piasecki/OTTO; Stylist: Emily Rickard
Photo: Eric Piasecki/OTTO; Stylist: Emily Rickard
Photo: Eric Piasecki/OTTO; Stylist: Emily Rickard
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Grey Limed Oak | Proline Floors Australia | Grey Limed Oak FlooringPhoto: Eric Piasecki/OTTO; Stylist: Emily Rickard
Photo: Eric Piasecki/OTTO; Stylist: Emily Rickard
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EspassoTriBeCa-based Espasso was founded as America’s aboriginal exhibit committed to abreast Brazilian appliance and design. Espasso’s talents are both ample and historic: Tropical-modernist adept Isay Weinfeld; Bauhaus-inspired artisan Arthur Casas; rare-woods able Etel Carmona. “We use their abreast pieces for a pop of color, their best pieces for one of a affectionate sculptural elements, and their alfresco appliance for our bank projects,” Liss says.
BDDWFounded by artisan Tyler Hays, SoHo-based BDDW is committed to the art of timeless, well-crafted design. Best accepted for their tables, chairs and accumulator pieces, anniversary BDDW allotment is crafted at Hays’ studio-workshop in Philadelphia, PA, from about heirloom-like board slabs hand-rubbed afore finishing. “We accept formed with [BDDW] for over 10 years,” Liss says. “From their absurd tables, their leather-wrapped credenzas, and admirable clocks, anniversary allotment is as appropriate than the next.”
DonzellaYou can’t go amiss at this sprawling TriBeCa athenaeum alms aggregate you charge to actualize the absolute midcentury-styled home. Founded aback in 1990, Donzella commonly focused on American designers such as Edward Wormley and George Nakashima, but additionally offers a abundant alternative of seminal European talents including Gio Ponte and ceramicist Marcello Fantoni. “Donzella is an absurd ability for best and abreast Italian appliance and lighting,” Liss says. “When I charge that appropriate brace of sconces or a one-of-a-kind chandelier, Donzella is my aboriginal stop.”
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