Tiny Apartment Livimng and More

 

Image above: I wanted to select furniture that would keep the apartment feeling as big as possible – hence, a glass tabletop for the desk/dining table. Because I didn’t have room for much furniture, I wanted all the pieces to be very special and things I’d want to keep for the rest of my life. The Compass table legs are by Matthew Hilton, with a glass tabletop custom made in a nearby glass shop in Chinatown. I had coveted the Fredericks & Mae arrow for a long time, and it was one of the first things I got for the apartment.

Image above: The apartment is the smallest I’ve lived in, but as soon as I came in, I knew it was meant to be; to me, light matters way more than size. Given the location, it acts more as a super cozy hotel room; all the nearby restaurants and bars feel like extensions of the apartment. The carpet is by the Finnish manufacturer Tikau, with an illustration by Klaus Haapaniemi.

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Image above: I had a frame and couldn’t find a poster for it, so I made a collage from papers in my favorite colors. I spent more than half an hour at a local paper shop pairing up the best shades. The vase is from Chinatown, and the rococo-style table was a street find.

 

 Image above: The wooden balls are a work in progress. I’d like to paint them a few different colors and display them on a shelf. They were a gift from a friend, whose husband used them as props on a shoot.

Image above: I think feeling at home is all about details, no matter what the size of the apartment. The little glass box is from West Elm, home to a little airplant and a good luck fox given as a gift by a friend from his trip to India.

 

Image above: Two huge works by Australian artist Abbey McCulloch hang in Katie Graham’s living room in Victoria, Australia.

 

Image above: A wall hanging by Australian textile designer Pony Rider hangs above a vintage Danish sofa in Annabelle Kerslake’s Australia home.

 

 Image above: A portrait by Shelley Adler in Amie Weitzman’s Connecticut cottage

 

 Image above: Rym of Mademoiselle Bagatelles decorates her Parisian apartment with artwork created by her mother (the carpets and cushions were found in Tunisia).

 

 Image above: The dramatic arrangement of photographs makes the simple Ikea sofa in Jimmie Martin and Rick Schultz’s London home look so much more luxe.

 

 Image above: A little twist on the classic collage — everything slants to the left in Paul and Megan Wilkes’ Dallas home.

 

 

 Image above: A painting by Scott Herskovitz hangs above the sofa in Grace Hsiu’s Pasadena, California, home.

 

 Image above: The Thomas Pheasant mirror hanging above the settee in Cortney Bishop’s South Carolina home was one of the first pieces that she purchased for herself.

 

 Image above: A sunburst wrought-iron wall lamp hangs above Steve Soria’s 1940s Victorian 3-piece couch in his Santa Barbara ranch home.

Image above: Objects as art: In her home in Tunisia, Victoria Reppert hung the old mashrabiya screen slightly away from the wall so that it would cast beautiful patterns in the light.

Image above: Lizzy Janssen displays her collection of vintage hand-painted portraits above the sofa in her Philadelphia home.

 

 above: Jordan and her husband try to buy one significant piece of art every year to hang in their San Francisco home. They bought the big colorful piece hanging to the left of the settee from Michelle Armas.

 

Image above: A photograph by Jean-Pierre Khazem hangs above the sofa in Dorothée Monestier’s Paris home.

 

 Image above: A mirror is flanked by vintage magazines in Bryan Minnich and Katie D’Angelo’s Washington, D.C. home.

 

 Image above: In Alissa Walker’s Los Angeles living room, the poster on the wall is a 1967 serigraph by Sister Corita Kent, who was a Los Angeles designer and nun. The off-center hanging makes the window feel like another piece of art.

Image above: Amanda Happé’s sofa in her Toronto home is a vintage Canadian design that was once airport waiting furniture. She took the photographs (of graffiti cover-ups) during a trip to Santa Monica.  

 

Image above: You can’t go wrong with a pet portrait. Haddock lounges on a chair underneath his portrait in his 1920s Maine farmhouse from Sneak Peek: Tyler Karu and Brendan Ready.









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