200 Amsterdam

Upper West Side interior design: an apartment in Manhattan’s Lincoln Square neighborhood, designed for a couple who traded a house on acres for life in New York City. They wanted their interiors to reflect the multifaceted sides of who they are, so the brief was for classic taste with a fresh, slightly unpredictable edge.

The main living space was one large rectangle, so I broke it into three distinct areas – a wine bar, a dining room, and a living room – using color gradients, material changes, and wall moldings that frame each zone. A single rug runs the full length, with the pattern shifting to mark each space.

Color carries the whole apartment. Raspberry in the entry, mauve and aqua green in the living room, gray and metallic in the kitchen, pale green and white in the bedrooms. I think about rhythm and balance the way I do with jazz, and the palette moves room to room the same way. Natural woods throughout, from white oak to walnut and mahogany, plus an apricot mirror in the bar and hand-applied high-gloss Venetian plaster on the primary bathroom ceiling. Most of the furnishings were custom-designed. The art went in last, once the palette and flow were set, so each piece could interact with its space.

Interior design by Andrew Suvalsky Designs. Photography by Brittany Ambridge / OTTO. Styling by Martin Bourne. Featured in AD Italia.