Bond Street Apartment by Home Studios
Bond Street Apartment by Home Studios is an ‘exploration of unexpected details’ in New York City’s NoHo neighbourhood—evoking Wes Anderson-esque curves and colour palette.
Words: Emma-Kate Wilson | Photography: Brain Ferry
As Home Studios’ first New York residential architectural and interior renovation, Bond Street Apartment was inspired by their former hospitality projects, Elsa and Goat Town. The clients had reached out to Home Studios to design a family apartment that brings the small details to life in their new family home.
The result is, what the firm describe as, an ‘exploration of unexpected details.’ A multitude of hues pop against 1920’s inspired geometric angles. and the base of the apartment feeds from whites, cream, and timber as to let the individual elements sing. But it’s the inviting refuges in materiality and form that creates a family home that is fun for both the parents and their two young children.
The award-winning firm, founded in 2009 by former book editor Oliver Haslegrave, sets out to use architecture and interior design to tell their creative clients' lives. As such, Bond Street Apartment paints an inspired picture in the landmarked building, first built in 1925.
Home Studios began by completely gutted the layout to rework and maximise the open floorplan. However, Haslegrave decided to leave the apartment's bones, from the width, length, ceiling height, windows, and a small section of the original maple floors. The result is a contemporary mix of vintage and new custom pieces designed by the firm—site-specific furniture and lighting with found mid-century modern pieces.
The living area is dominated by a custom-made shelving unit designed by the Home Studios. Photo - Brian Ferry.
The doorways and skirting in the apartment are all edged with copper.Photo - Brian Ferry.
Bond Street Apartment is the second residential project that the studio has worked on, but founder Oliver Haslegrave says the creative process was much like developing a restaurant. Photo - Brian Ferry.
“Featuring a diversity of expression, design influences and materiality, the end result is a welcoming three-bedroom, two-bathroom residence that celebrates a clean and cohesive design language.”
A blue-grey paint was used for the kitchen cabinetry to evoke a Parisian courtyard. Photo - Brian Ferry.
In the open plan kitchen and dining, a blue-grey paint by Farrow & Ball ‘Pigeon’ was used for the kitchen cabinetry to evoke a Parisian courtyard, while the copper theme begins with cabinet pulls and a custom copper hood. A custom Swing Pendant hangs over a walnut dining table by Fort Standard and vintage Model 80 chairs by Niels Otto Møller.
Oak and copper continue throughout the Bond Street Apartment, connected by arched contours and a rounded and raised ceiling—inspired by Alvar Aalto’s geometries. The open plan kitchen connects to the bedrooms and bathrooms by a long corridor marked by internal, copper-framed, curved windows, painted in Farrow and Ball’s iconic colour, “Pointing”.
In the living room, the curves continue with a custom oak and brass shelving unit and a saddle-style arm, ivory-coloured wool and walnut Howard sofa by the New York-based firm Egg Collective. As does the ‘vintage and new’ thematic, with two antique Danish chairs with woven leather seats juxtaposing a cube Sabine Marcelis side table, cast from candy-pink resin—set upon a French 1940s teal and orange rug.
As in the living room, the bedroom brings together the eclectic geometric style with the Home Studios-designed mid-century-style walnut bed with a copper, rattan caning and travertine headboard. A playful 1940’s French floor lamp lights up the Atelier de Troupe boucle-upholstered Jia armchair, and a painting by the New York-based artist Landon Metz injects blue abstract forms into the colour and texture palette.
Bond Street apartment features a mixture of custom Home Studios pieces and vintage and contemporary furniture. Photo - Brian Ferry.
A sun-kissed reading nook with bespoke shelving. Photo - Brian Ferry.
The Manhattan apartment is filled with bespoke details, such as the oak and copper trim in the hallway. Photo - Brian Ferry.
A painting by the New York-based artist Landon Metz injects blue abstract forms in the main bedroom. Photo - Brian Ferry.
In the master en-suite, Home Studios play with more colours — vintage green tiles and a deep blue concrete wall picks up the marbling within the Arabescato Classico custom vanity and bespoke curved mirror. While in the second bathroom, the firm turns to umbers and tan for an impressive tiling compilation curving round the bath and floors.
“The renovation serves as a testament of strength in collaboration and vision between Home Studio and client, who approached Home Studios after they fell in love with the studio’s notable interior work for some of New York City’s most beloved bars and restaurants.”
Bond Street Apartment is a fun and playful space that demands intrigue with every curve and corner — details are injected into every surface, as is innovative storage and joyful features for the inner-city home. It’s a home for living and retreating!
The bedroom features a custom walnut and travertine master bed, designed by Home Studios, a vintage French lamp from the 1940s and an Atelier de Troupe Jia chair. On the wall, a painting by Landon Metz completes the room. Photo - Brian Ferry.
The doorways and skirting in the apartment are all edged with copper. Photo - Brian Ferry.
A French floor lamp from the 1940s stands in the corner of the room, beside a boucle-upholstered armchair by LA brand Atelier de Troupe. Photo - Brian Ferry.
In the guest bathroom, Home Studios created bespoke copper and oak details for the shower and mirror, combined with copper fixtures. Photo - Brian Ferry.
A mosaic of tan-coloured tiles sinuously winds around the shower, tub and a seating nook in the guest bathroom. Photo - Brian Ferry.