Palm Beach

Palm Beach interior design and architecture: an oceanfront condominium designed for a New York couple as a new home for an art collection their family has built and curated across the 20th century. It was a full gut renovation of a 3,100-square-foot condo with 550 square feet of wraparound terraces and uninterrupted ocean views.

I was asked to make a perfect home first for the art, then for the clients. Every choice started with one question: where does the art go so it can tell the most compelling story? We enlarged and relocated the kitchen to open onto the living and dining area, which brought in more light and made the whole plan feel inclusive. The clients lean neutral in their furnishings while the art is vividly colorful, so we built a gallery: white walls, light furnishings, a few bold accents, and smaller pieces. The idea was to call forth the beauty of the art.

The foyer reads like a gallery in itself with black-and-white Picassos, a curvy red bench, a white gesso chandelier, and an art-lined hallway. A cream-and-white through-line runs the whole apartment, so the work takes the spotlight, with surprises along the way: a cobalt den wall behind a Frank Stella, bright yellow Milo Baughman dining chairs, and a Harry Bertoia rod sculpture at the living room window.

Interior design and architecture by Andrew Suvalsky Designs. Photography by Kris Tamburello. Featured in Florida Design and AD Italia.