Ashe Leandro

The Art of Living

Photo by Adrian Gaut

The design of a room in a West Village townhouse by New York–based firm Ashe Leandro is rooted in modernist designer Charlotte Perriand’s most revered work. The top-floor space — which serves as a refuge for guests as well as a small studio for writing, reading and making art — recalls Perriand’s beam-ceilinged chalet in the French Alps and the cantilevered lines and enveloping, warm wood interiors of her Les Arcs ski resort. Surrounding the clients’ own Isamu Noguchi Rudder table, with its one wood and two metal-hairpin legs, is a set of 1960s Carimate dining chairs by Vico Magistretti for Cassina, found on 1stDibs. “The rush seats, along with the pine paneling and shutters, give a warm, alpine feeling to the room,” says Ariel Ashe, who has been layering woods and peppering projects with important design pieces since founding Ashe Leandro with Reinaldo Leandro in 2008. “We loved the combination of the mid-century furniture with the late-nineteenth-century Persian decorative wool rug,” says Leandro, who with Ashe selected a Noguchi paper floor lantern, a nod to one Perriand chose for her own highly curated mountain retreat.

Reinaldo Leandro and Ariel Ashe of Ashe Leandro
Photo by Malcolm Brown

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