DATA SHEET
Location: New York
Interior designer: Timothy Godbold
Furnishings and lighting: bespoke design or selected vintage and limited edition pieces
Photos: David Mitchell
The exterior setting is one of New York ex-industrial architecture, a textile factory dating back to 1881 with a traditional cast-iron structure, converted into a residential building in 2019 and designed by Shigeru Ban. The interior however is inspired, according to Timothy Godbold “by the surreal and glamorous aesthetic of cinema classics from the 1970s”, that in an atmosphere of full and velvety neutral tones combines gilded and mirrored surfaces, textile walls, full-height curtains and abstract and geometric forms
Like the arches that separate the two lounge ares, the bases of sofas and side tables, the large table for the dining room and the stucco decorations, overlaid and in relief on the walls, that transform the ‘white pages’ of the walls into textured tapestries. In the enormous ‘public’ area, the spaces have been reorganised for a comfortable family life without completely altering the overall layout in its original industrial function.
The double height has been retained in a part of the living area, making the most of the windows and verticality with full-height curtains while the existing load-bearing column have become a point of anchorage for the dining table, inspired by a rationalist model for industrial use from the 1930s by the Luckhardt brothers and Alfons Anker. Amid the design materials, a key role is also played by the objects and accessories such as vases, plant holders and designer tables as well as the works of art commissioned to Malcolm Hill and Etienne Moyat.
