Arnold Studio modernises 19th-century Brooklyn home with black and white
Brooklyn observe Arnold Studio has designed this light-filled condominium inside a historic brick home within the borough’s Clinton Hill neighbourhood.
The mission, referred to as Clinton Residence, occupies the higher two flooring of a four-storey brick house that dates again to the 1800s. Designed as a grand mansion, the constructing has a purple brick and stone exterior, with a variety of ornamental particulars.
Arnold Studio’s redesign goals to fuse previous and new inside the condominium, through the use of black and white particulars to distinction with the house’s authentic architectural components.
On the primary flooring, the studio created an open-plan kitchen, front room and eating space. The lounge and kitchen are separated by an current fire that includes a wooden mantel that pertains to the house’s current panelled wooden doorways and window trim.
The partitions are painted shiny white, whereas pale wooden floors distinction with black wooden ceiling beams overhead.
The kitchen additionally encompasses a mixture of black and white. Constructed-in cupboards are designed to mix in with the white-painted partitions, whereas a darkish island with a black soapstone countertop supplies a stark distinction.
“White oak wooden floors and uncovered blackened ceiling joists counter each other to focus on the perimeter wall surfaces, which include each authentic historic casement particulars and distinctly fashionable cabinetry components,” mentioned Arnold Studio.
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A eating set and modernist bucket chair each in black additionally pop towards the sunshine interiors.
The studio rebuilt staircase within the 1,942-square-foot (180-square-metre) house to function white oak steps and an identical handrail.
Upstairs, two bedrooms have vaulted ceilings that reveal the pitched roof of the property. The flooring are white to match the partitions, and the rooms even have built-in cupboards in white so as to add to the minimal aesthetic.
Two bogs are additionally included in Clinton Residence. One accommodates a mixture of cement tiles, massive format porcelain tiles and brass fixtures that may patinate over time.
Along with this mission, different renovated residences in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighbourhood are a loft by Dean Works that includes Baltic birch plywood and VonDalwig Structure’s Home 22 townhouse.
Arnold Studio relies in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighbourhood. It was based in 2015 by architect Simon Arnold, after working at New York corporations Leeser Structure, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Pictures is by Nico Schinco.
Mission credit:
Structure and inside design: Arnold Studio Inc
Basic contractor: Inventive License Interiors
Structural engineer: Ivan David Engineers & Associates
Styling: Sean Dooley