A British financier commissioned the ultimate 3,000-square-foot private “hotel” suite Downtown to go native on his sojourns in the Big Apple.
The gentrified floor-through Soho loft apartment had been largely stripped of its industrial heritage. One notable remaining original feature—impressive antique 12-foot Corinthian cast-iron structural columns—today march down a new central axis like freestanding sculptures.
Scraped clean and fireproofed with shiny black paint, they rise from new Danish softwood floors of century-old Douglas Fir planks a foot wide and nearly 2 inches thick. Removing partition walls has recast one of the existing bedrooms as an open-plan study—leaving this bachelor pad with just two bedrooms.
A sweeping curved wall now circumscribes the remaining guest room. Its wide curve contributes a luxurious crescent of additional footage to the main suite, which closes behind a tall new pivoting door of fumed oak slabs.
Bathrooms have moody stone walls, light limestone floors, and oversized back-lit frameless floating mirrors. The oiled-steel Boffi kitchen echoes the texture and blackened color of a steel architectural surround fabricated for the wood-burning fireplace in the adjoining living room.
Black miniature LED track lights illuminate wall art flexibly throughout, while the branching ten-light dining chandelier is a luxurious custom sculptural installation.