The Riverview project is located on the 40th floor of a highrise apartment building on Riverview Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We focused our interior design of the apartment to exploit the impeccable views of the Hudson River. The project focused on the re-design of their Living Room, Primary Bedroom & Nursery.
The young couple wanted to take advantage of the apartment's uptown location and the views of the Hudson to have frequent gatherings with friends and colleagues, and they wanted a comfortable bedroom space with a significant amount of additional storage. Weiss Turkus's task was to provide polish and edge to the living space, integrating the couple's existing furniture with new pieces to make it a space suited for both social entertaining and everyday living, and to fit out the primary bedroom with custom millwork worthy of the client's extensive sneaker collection. Shortly after the completion of these spaces, the clients were expecting a child and we came back to design them a nursery.
The biggest challenge of the Living Room design was how to orient and re-use their existing sectional sofa, since it would be the centerpiece of the room. We wanted to take advantage of the views, while also providing a practical place for TV watching, and displaying their extensive KAWS collection. For the Primary Bedroom, the challenge was to lighten up the space and organize/expand their closet space in a way that didn't impose on the serenity of the room. And in the new nursery, they wanted their child to be able to grow into the room seamlessly from being in a crib to a twin bed.
A new plan arrangement in the living space reorients the couple’s existing sectional toward the city views by separating the chaise component from the main body of the sofa. Weiss Turkus furnished the space with new, stand-out pieces, like a sculptural bent-wood lounge chair and custom poured-concrete side tables. The mixed character of the objects that populate the space is palpable upon entering, the range of polished and rough finishes creating a welcome tension.
This push-and-pull is underscored by a long, slender woven metal and nylon rug created by Hechizoo Textiles that stretches across the living space. Gradually changing from a deep lapis blue on one end to a bright teal on the other, with narrow neon-orange vertical stripes creating textural interest, its finely detailed surface belies its indestructible materiality. The rug serves a spatial purpose, too: breaking up the sea of wood flooring that covers the entire apartment and giving the living space a clear character all its own.
Custom millwork designed by architect Lindsay Weiss wraps one of the corners in this space, its profile seemingly a single solid volume out of which several voids have been carved. The millwork’s staccato lines contrast the active, organic pattern of the Calico wallpaper that backs it, and together they create a compelling frame for the client’s collection of Kaws dolls, assorted art books, and a pair of copper-cast sneakers. A deep, roomy drawer with a lacquered turquoise-blue finish provides space for storing larger items and slides back and forth along the shelf to provide a playful touch.
Shortly after the completion of the first renovation, the clients were expecting a child, and called on Weiss Turkus again to prepare a nursery. In this room, completed a year after the previous renovation, a Makelike wallpaper patterned with coral trees and winding pebble roads makes the room feel like a world unto itself. In a corner of the space, Weiss again designed custom millwork, this time taking advantage of the depth created by a former closet to set a daybed into a cozy niche. An upholstered wall treatment lends the niche an added sense of warmth, while orange trim details on the millwork echo the orange trim moldings around the door openings in the living space, making the apartment into a cohesive, dynamic whole.
Team:
Interior Designers: Weiss Turkus Projects
Photographer: Dana Meilijson
