Worrell Yeung contrasts wooden pillars and gray marble in Chelsea Loft

New York structure studio Worrell Yeung has introduced new life to a former artist’s studio within the metropolis, stripping paint off wooden pillars and including a big kitchen island.

Positioned in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood, the challenge is a two-bedroom condo that spans half of a flooring in an early 20th-century constructing.

It was beforehand occupied by an artist and artwork handler for the Museum of Trendy Artwork and had not been up to date in almost 40 years. Seafoam inexperienced paint coated historic wooden pillars and the ceiling was clad in tin tiles.

Worrell Yeung’s overhaul of the two,200-square-foot (204-square-metre) condo concerned stripping again these finishes, portray the partitions and ceiling white and including in reclaimed pine wooden floors from Madera.

“Timber columns and beams, cast-iron capitals, and wooden timber ceiling joists have been left uncooked and uncovered, significantly within the beneficiant dwelling space, to keep up the spirit of the New York artist’s loft,” mentioned the studio.

The studio designed a brand new kitchen in between two of the pale picket columns. The island is roofed in Ceppo di Gre marble and kinds a centrepiece of the open-plan Chelsea Loft.

“There was a robust need to specific the island’s ‘object-ness’ by retaining it very elemental in kind, but nonetheless arranging the stone planes to ask comfy congregation with these sq. stone niches that embed into the wooden flooring,” mentioned Worrell Yeung co-founder Jejon Yeung.

The studio has designed two different New York flats – a penthouse in Downtown Brooklyn and two-storey unit within the NoMad neighbourhood – the place the kitchen island can also be a key characteristic.

Chelsea Loft consists of an open-plan kitchen, eating and lounge, joined by a smaller sitting space and a powder room. On the alternative facet of the house, a main bedroom has a walk-in closet and toilet, whereas a youngsters’s bed room is full with a toilet clad in yellow tiles.

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“The organising design technique of this renovation was to keep up contiguous public dwelling zones and prolong daylight so far as it could possibly attain by minimizing partitions and concentrating personal rooms on the north facet of the condo,” mentioned the studio.

The inside decor was created with Jean Lin, the founding father of native design collective Colony. It features a black eating desk by Brooklyn studio Vonnegut/Kraft, a number of tables from Washington studio Grain, and quite a few items by Cassina together with a purple velvet couch, rattan espresso desk and Utrecht chair.

Different particulars are classic Marcel Breuer Cesca eating chairs, black stools by Hollis and Morris, Noguchi lighting fixtures, and a set of paintings owned by the purchasers, starting from determine drawings and work to summary items.

“The design and total materials expertise of the house very a lot mirror the consumer’s playfulness and enhances their eclectic artwork assortment,” mentioned Max Worrell, who based the studio with Yeung in 2014.

Rounding out the design are uncovered pipes, white-pigmented ash wooden closets and casework, and kitchen cabinetry in dark-stained ash wooden.

Worrell Yeung has additionally constructed a black barn north of town within the city of Ancram.

Pictures is by Eric Petschek.

Undertaking credit:

Basic contractor: Bednarz Building
Inside designer: Jean Lin, Colony
Lighting designer: Lighting Workshop
Mechanical and electrical engineer: Engineering Options