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Tour a Modern Downtown Manhattan Home With French Flair
Perched on an impossibly high floor in Downtown Manhattan, with rows of enormous windows facing east, south, and west, Kay Olivia and Ryan Jackson’s duplex overlooks the Brooklyn Bridge, the World Trade Center, and the Statue of Liberty. As far as views go, it doesn’t get more New York than that. And yet the apartment’s interior, in a very modern and abstract way, calls to mind a Parisian address, what with its enfilade of reception rooms, floors covered in herringbone parquetry, and ecru stone mantelpiece anchoring the central salon, which is furnished with eclectic sofas in beige hues. “We got married in Paris, so we wanted to bring a little bit of…
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Renovated law firm opens as Lawft on Airbnb in downtown Russell
The Lawft Airbnb rental in Russell used to be a law office. The owners kept one of the original windows and law books from the building as part of the decor. Photo by Cristina Janney / Hays Post By CRISTINA JANNEYHays Post RUSSELL — A Russell couple has renovated a former downtown law office built in 1905 into an Airbnb. Jon and Kim Birky bought the building at 620 N. Main in 2020. They renovated half of the 4,000-square-foot upper level into their private residence. The other half is now The Lawft, a four-bedroom, four-bath Airbnb. The couple gutted the upper floor of the building, removing 29 tons of material…
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Tour an Upper West Side Home That’s Been Injected With Downtown Cool | Architectural Digest
It’s a classic New York story: A young family is moving some 80 blocks north but doesn’t want to sacrifice downtown cool for the change of address. That was the brief for Manhattan-based interior designer Neal Beckstedt, when a pair of clients called on him to decorate their new place: A 1928, three-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side with high ceilings and leafy views of Central Park. It needed to be, in Beckstedt’s words, “Young and fun and cool while still respecting uptown. Bringing the downtown element to them—that was the challenge.” Luckily, he and his clients—a real estate developer and a learning specialist—had instant chemistry: “Neal understood that…
