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Upper East Side Carriage House

Upper East Side Carriage House In 1915, the architecture firm of Delano & Aldrich completed an Upper East Side mansion for prominent New York couple Willard and Dorothy Straight. Two years later, the firm designed their carriage house a few blocks away. This service building was originally used..

Park Slope Mansion

Park Slope Mansion At the edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park stands a Gilded Age mansion designed by architect Montrose W. Morris. Built in 1899, the neoclassical limestone structure adds a sense of grandeur to the quiet, family-oriented neighborhood of Park Slope. The home’s original interiors r..

DHD Townhouse Book Introduction

DHD TOWNHOUSE BOOK An Introduction to the DHD TOWNHOUSE Book Collection New York City’s landmark townhouses invariably started out as single-family dwellings with distinct social functions stacked across multiple floors. It’s a model that still appeals today, although updating them for mod..

N. Moore Loft

N. Moore Loft The gut renovation of this former cold storage warehouse in Tribeca aimed to celebrate its industrial elements while carving out a more livable home for a young family. Although it was first converted in the early 2000s, the existing layout — which encompassed a large, open-plan liv..

Union Square Loft

Union Square Loft “We thought of this as our own little village, with a town square in the middle where you’d come together to commune with each other, and then split off to do your own thing in one of the antechamber-type rooms.”— David Howell When renovation first began on this Union Squ..

Crosby Street Loft

Crosby Street Loft “One of the philosophies we apply to our loft design is creating a sense of place inside an open commercial zone. Just because you have a sofa and chairs doesn't mean you're going to want to sit there.” — David Howell Designed to create the atmosphere of an elegant, intima..

Mercer Street Loft

Mercer Street Loft “Technically, this should be one apartment running front to back. Instead it was cut in half and made into two, so each has only one source of natural light. But sometimes you do only get one source of light in New York. Therefore, we worked with what we had.” — David Howel..

Bleecker Street Loft

Bleecker Street Loft “Imagine if there was empty sky or a suburban landscape outside those windows, or even the ocean. The white interior would look and feel totally different. In some ways, it’s the New York grit that makes this work.” — David Howell In this luminous, 3,000-square foot ..

Broome Street Loft

Broome Street Loft “Renovations are often about discovery, which is a magic thing because it doesn’t just happen when you see the space for the first time — it also happens during construction. It’s a journey. Design is a tumbleweed-like process. You’ve got to go with the flow, because it..

Laight Street Loft

Laight Street Loft “One of the curious things about New York City is that people are very tolerant of everything, including potholes in the street, bad lobbies, horrible hallways — they’re forgiving until they get to your front door. Once they open your door, that’s your moment to express w..