NICOLEHOLLIS

Nicole Hollis is a genius at conjuring luxurious environments with a minimum of elements, all of them artful. The San Francisco–based designer’s signature magic is on show in this New York loft, a pied-à-terre in the city’s Tribeca neighborhood for longtime clients from California. Appreciative of their love of nature, Hollis anchored the downtown space with a braided sisal rug, for “a more grounding, organic and earthy feel,” she explains. The mushroom-toned palette of the furnishings, which include vintage armchairs by Pierre Paulin and Augusto Bozzi, adds a woodsy vibe. So too do the loft’s original rough-hewn timber beams and columns, and her choice of a custom-made Gilles & Boissier raw brushed-cedar coffee table and a Veronica Mar corten-steel bench, found on 1stDibs, whose dark torquing mass resembles a great fallen log. For a final sylvan touch, Hollis specially commissioned a porcelain and bronze branch chandelier from the decorative artist David Wiseman to hang over the dining table. The overall effect? Nature made urbane.