“One look at the raw space, and I knew exactly the sort of refuge I wanted to create. One that unfolds and reveals itself slowly, that wows you initially with its grandeur and then capitalizes on your curiosity.”

Leung began the project with several incisive changes. First and most drastically, she removed a cramped mezzanine that had been suspended over one side of the apartment, as well as the kitchen shoehorned below. She then reorganized the home’s private rooms along the east wall. ​ A bedroom, dressing room, kitchen, and two baths are all hidden behind a long, continuous wall that stretches across the width of the space and shifts almost imperceptibly from a mirrored face across most of the surface, to a glass face in select areas. The concealed doors of the bedroom, primary bath, and kitchen open onto the loft’s large, bright living and dining area, which is lined with seven tall windows on two sides.

In the main living/dining area, Leung designed several custom pieces whose burnished, glowing surfaces bend light across the space. In the dining room, these include a brass and walnut credenza, dining table, and console set, whose irregularly shaped tops, legs, and doors play with concepts of balance and support. In the living room, a custom brass coffee table by Leung while at Steven Harris Architects for Barneys New York and the Arch Bench by Pietro Franceschini lend organic curves that complement the architecture’s rectilinearity.





“As an architect, I thrive on the satisfaction that comes from arriving at elegantly simple design solutions,” says Leung. “But more importantly, it’s the promise of emotions created by beautiful spaces that drives my architecture. I am always interested in how ostensibly static configurations of materials can evoke poetic tensions that speak to our thoughts and memories, that touch upon aspects of our subconscious and prompt reactions we may not necessarily be able to fully articulate.”

Photography  Sarah Elliott

Interior Design  Andrea Leung