St Luke’s Place
New York, New York

Avid art lovers, the owners of this 19th Greenwich Village home wanted to create an open floor plan and ample wall space for their collection. Expressing a modern idiom within the historic shell, the parlor and second floors were reconfigured to include sliding partitions that when closed, create intimate rooms. Tucking them away, they create a continuous open space from front to rear wall.

Lacking garden space, nature was invited in via material changes to the rear wall of the home. The existing rear wall was open up with large-format glass sliding panel doors. An adjacent small terrace was given a glass tile floor that illuminates the basement-level flat below while taking advantage by reflecting the trees and sky of its close quartered neighboring gardens. All the while, the reflected the gardens become the art reflected into the parlor floor kitchen and entertaining spaces.