A former Tribeca commercial building becomes a private world of fresco, walnut, rooftop gardens and a pool house gallery

Set within the upper levels of a converted early-twentieth-century commercial building in Tribeca, the residence proposes a new private world inside the scale of old Manhattan. The building itself provides the foundation: double-height volumes, tall arched openings, north-facing views across rooftops, water towers, garden terraces and the distant verticality of the city. The interior, however, is entirely newly fitted

Rather than approaching the project as a restoration, the residence is conceived as an architectural insertion. Newly applied ivory limewashed plasterwork, classical mouldings, hand-painted frescoed surfaces and walnut joinery are composed within the existing commercial shell, giving the apartment a sense of age, ceremony and permanence without claiming to be inherited

The kitchen establishes this tension clearly. A monolithic stone island sits beneath a frescoed and moulded ceiling, framed by walnut cabinetry, tall windows and softly worked plaster walls. The room remains practical, but its atmosphere is closer to a chamber than a conventional kitchen — quiet, formal and held by the weight of material

In the dining room, Babliano table and chairs sit beneath a vaulted ceiling of fresco and ornamented plaster. Bronze, walnut, ivory plaster and dark timber flooring form a restrained palette, allowing the furniture and architecture to read as part of the same composition. The result is ceremonial, but not nostalgic; a room made for gathering, collecting and looking

The living spaces soften the scale of the apartment. Walnut libraries, classical fragments, contemporary painting, sculpture and upholstered forms sit against the rhythm of arched openings and timber-framed views. Beyond the interior, intimate rooftop terraces extend the residence into the city, bringing planting, light and the Manhattan skyline into the daily experience of the apartment

In the bathroom, the architectural language becomes more private and enclosed. Oxblood limewashed plaster, travertine, walnut and arched volumes create a bathing room with a monastic intensity, while the view beyond the terrace doors returns the space to New York

The project also extends into the building’s private pool house, imagined as a gallery within the residential complex. Rather than treating the pool as an amenity, the space is designed and curated as a private cultural room, where water, sculpture, contemporary art and Babliano furniture are brought into a single architectural setting

Tribeca Residence is not a recreation of a historic apartment, nor a conventional downtown loft. It is a newly composed interior built inside the memory of a former commercial building — a private residence where plaster, fresco, walnut, stone, art and furniture create a world of domestic ceremony above the city

TRIBECA RESIDENCE

New York City, United States Mid 2026 — Ongoing

Residential & Private Gallery