Tag: Loft

Posted on

Tour 7 New York Loft Apartments That Epitomize Downtown Cool

Soon after touring a likely client’s penthouse loft in SoHo to discuss bringing it on the industry in late 2019, Steve Gold, superstar authentic estate agent and star of Bravo’s Million Greenback Listing New York, ultimately minimize to the chase. “As I left, I finished up expressing, ‘I’m happy to market it for you, but I’ll also invest in it from you,’” he remembers.

The would-be consumer, as it turned out, was New York Town gallerist Sean Kelly, who’d lived in the top-ground house for more than two decades. “My girlfriend, Luiza, and I ended up expecting with our daughter, Rose, and I was residing in a really neat enhancement in Chelsea, but had been contemplating about getting a larger space,” suggests Gold. “I see a great deal of places—all the time—and this had incredible bones and proportions, and I noticed the potential.” As penthouse lofts stack up, this unique home, clocking in at about 3,400 square ft, has three exposures alternatively of the normal two, which includes a almost 50-foot wall with south-going through home windows overlooking the quaint cobblestones down below. 

Enlisting the enable of his longtime mate and repeated collaborator, inside designer Samuel Amoia, the pair absolutely remodeled the strength and movement of the expansive, perfectly-lit space. “Steve has a really modernist aesthetic,” points out Amoia. “He needed that to translate into the house without sacrificing all the good things about owning a [SoHo] loft—high ceilings, exposed beams, and remarkable home windows.”—David Nash

Tomei utilized a desk to produce an classy area divider concerning the loft’s dwelling and eating parts. The fireplace’s antique marble surround was discovered at an estate sale in Amsterdam.

Photograph: Gieves Anderson

Michael Tomei was beaming when he logged on for our job interview from his apartment in New York City. His genius for infusing modern interiors with furnishings with abundant patina is apparent in his meticulously-intended, 2,100-square-foot, two-bed room loft that he shares with his husband or wife, Peter, and a rescue pet dog named Huxley.

Intestine renovating the area in a century-previous warehouse constructing in Manhattan’s NoHo district signaled a key equipment-shift for Tomei, who made use of to conceptualize store shows and style displays for makes like Calvin Klein, Balenciaga, and Lanvin. Opening Michael Vincent Layout in 2019 permitted him to dedicate his energy to rescuing previous structures and time-worn home furnishings, and—not to mention—binge-look at BBC interval films for inspiration. “If they have a powdered facial area and a wig on, or if the guys are prettier than ladies, I’m in,” he jokes. —Anne Quito

Schuster created a “raw but elevated” environment. Her capacity to combine classic and modern day furniture is obvious in the home’s parlor, which is section of an open up-system reception area. The foldable display in the corner is an Art Deco style from the 1940s the present day espresso desk, by May possibly Furniture, is built of wood handled to glance like stone the Jean-Michel Frank–style club chairs were upholstered in a sensitive floral jacquard from Pierre Frey the alabaster couch and daybed are from Dmitriy & Co. In the back again, we see a Trim Aarons photograph of Mick Jagger previously mentioned a Swedish Gustavian upper body from Laserow.

Picture: Douglas Friedman

Posted on

Downtown loft reflects owner’s passion for art and design | Home & Garden

The spacious downtown loft of stylist/salon owner Steve Lacy is a perfect reflection of his personal style and the things he loves. He moved in less than a year ago and has spent a great deal of time since making the space feel like home. Located in the Bankers Lofts building, its open layout and significant square footage, particularly for a one-bedroom, instantly drew him in.

Lacy had been living in another, smaller loft downtown and considering a move to Houston before finding the apartment. When he decided to stay in St. Louis, he started looking for a new permanent home online, but his search ended the moment he walked into the loft.

“I wasn’t even out the door and had the application filled out,” he laughs. “When I saw it, I knew it had my name written all over it. I never had enough space to display my art.”

The large living space allowed Lacy to create several seating areas for relaxing and entertaining, and even have a real dining “room” in addition to the kitchen island. This, he says, is a departure from many of the newer-built one-bedroom lofts, which tend to be much smaller.

People are also reading…

“You might barely get a couch and a chair and a couple barstools in there,” he says of other spaces he saw. “I have plenty of room to have my furniture displayed, plenty of room to move around. I like to entertain, too, so everyone can sit and chill.”

Enormous windows fill the far wall of the living room, overlooking Washington Avenue and flooding the space with natural light. High wood beamed ceilings with exposed ductwork and polished concrete floors are hallmarks of loft living.

Lacy has filled the space with a mix of contemporary furniture and accessories purchased at various favorite retailers including Restoration Hardware, Arhaus, Wayfair, Etsy and Amazon.

“I like a modern look with an eclectic feel,” he says. “The couch is sort of traditional, but then I like to pair something odd with it — whatever reflects me. I just keep moving it around until I like how it looks.”







At Home with Steve Lacy

 A vibrant piece of art infused on metal in a splatter-painted frame that Lacy acquired at a gallery in Houston hang in the entry foyer.




Self-described as “obsessed with coffee table books,” Lacy has a huge collection that is displayed on nearly every surface, mostly focused on topics of art and design.

A long wall stretching all the way from the end of the living room down the hallway to the bedroom area makes the perfect gallery for Lacy’s favorite framed prints, canvases and posters that he’s collected over the years — mostly by Black artists or reflecting Black culture. A favorite is an ornately framed black and white photograph by American photographer Gordon Parks depicting three women protesting segregation.

Lining either side of the hallway is Lacy’s collection of framed movie posters from some of his favorite films, as well framed Playbills from productions he attended of “Dreamgirls” and “The Color Purple.”

The bedroom suite is tucked away at the back of the loft, separated from the main living space, making it serene and quiet. With a walk-in closet and large bathroom, it provides a relaxing retreat. A tall, glass display case houses another of Lacy’s obsessions — cologne — with numerous collectible bottles of his favorite fragrances carefully arranged on its shelves.

In addition to its convenient location, the building offers a small fitness room and two shared rooftop deck areas with grills and seating for outdoor entertaining city-style. Now that he’s fully settled, Lacy couldn’t be happier with the move, and has enjoyed meeting some of his neighbors.

“I like the space and I was able to put together my own style and have enough room,” he says. “I’ve lived a lot of places downtown, and this finally feels comfortable.”







At Home with Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy poses for a portrait in his home in downtown St. Louis next to his window which looks out onto Washington Avenue on Monday, May 23, 2022. Photo by Zachary Clingenpeel, zclingenpeel@post-dispatch.com




Occupation • Salon owner and stylist at Christopher Stevens the Salon

Home • Bankers Lofts, Downtown St. Louis

Posted on

New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’

They are a spiky, ambitious lot. We encounter the poet John Ashbery, to whom Schloss complained about being called “semiabstract” by a critic. “‘Isn’t all life semi?’” he replied consolingly. And the composer Elliott Carter, who sneered of folk music’s influence on modern urbans: “We are not shepherds. We are not coming out of the hills. We are not folk.” The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham rears up “like a furry old faun”; the gallerist Leo Castelli has a Felix Unger-ish fastidiousness.

Schloss writes of a time, incredible as it may seem now, when painters in New York had the clout of movie stars. (These days, maybe even movie stars no longer have the clout of movie stars.) The Bob De Niro she gossiped with over a temperamental kerosene stove on the street was the actor’s father. Franz Kline, another abstract expressionist, with whom she danced the tango, “had a sort of Bogart-like cool and melancholy.” Strolling downtown alongside Willem de Kooning, the Dutch painter, leader of this set, “was like walking with Clark Gable in Hollywood.”

De Kooning and his wife, Elaine, a.k.a. “Queen of the Lofts,” are among the more completely filled-out figures in a collection of mostly outlines and shadows, darting in and out of time. At Bill’s studio, Schloss, who’d escaped Nazi Germany studying languages abroad as a teenager, first beheld the takeover of former industrial spaces that transformed real estate as well as art. So powerful was the romance of New York lofts, surpassing the Parisian garrets before them, that prefabricated luxury versions are now an industry standard. They were “stages for work and for a whole new free way of living,” Schloss writes, describing her crowd’s appropriation of cable spools for coffee tables as if they were The Borrowers, a perpetual ascension of creaky stairs, parlor games absent an actual parlor and meals taken at the Automat.

Credit…Silvia Stucky

All five senses are shaken awake by “The Loft Generation,” which might as well be subtitled A Study of Synesthesia, punctuated by “cream-colored screams,” a hotly debated phrase the poet Frank O’Hara used to describe Cy Twombly’s canvases in ARTnews. Schloss got a reviewing gig there — she compares the work to embroidery or knitting — to smoothe Jacob’s admittance to a nursery school “only for the children of working mothers”; painting apparently didn’t qualify. There is sight, of course, with color insets of Schloss’s bright and optimistic daubings alongside work by her more dour-seeming contemporaries. There is sound, in her recounting of the unholy clamor of the Chelsea neighborhood where she and Burckhardt shacked up: the rattling of iron window shutters, mating cats, the fire and burglar alarms and “the intermittent swish of cars down Sixth Avenue, like long sighs.” (Next time you misplace the AirPods Pro, think of John Cage teaching Schloss to appreciate ambient noise as part of life’s symphony.)