Townhouse parlour with a cream boucle sofa and crimson vine cushions, a photograph of a dry stone wall over a black Chinese chest and carved fretwork doors to the hall
Twin Palm Studio, interior design by Gregory Allan CramerEnquire

New York, New York

Gramercy Park Townhouse

An old house left alone, and furnished from four countries.

Location
Gramercy Park, NY
Rooms shown
Parlour, front room, bed
Palette
Cream, crimson, ochre
Completed
To confirm

The house was already right. The job was what goes in it.

Nothing was done to the shell beyond keeping it: the carved plaster mantels, the deep mouldings and coffered ceilings, the tall windows and their interior shutters, walls glazed a pale straw. Curtains are plain cream to the floor in the parlour and loose balloon shades in tan cotton at the bay, which is as much window treatment as rooms of this height need.

Inside that, four countries sit together. English mahogany, a glazed cabinet and a Victorian wardrobe of drawers; Chinese fretwork doors, a black lacquer chest, a red garden seat set in an unused firebox; an Anglo-Indian oak trestle table, a leather bull as a footstool, blue trellis and paisley on an English armchair. Colour comes up from the carpets, red Oushak in the parlour and pale green in the front room, and the only modern notes are the pictures: a dry stone wall photographed close, a yellow canvas studded with dark discs, a spiral drawn in graphite.

The front room, annotated

One modern picture over a carved plaster mantel, and a gilded leopard under it to take the formality out

Balloon shades in plain tan cotton, left loose, with the original shutters kept in use below

Front room with a leather chesterfield in a bay of three windows under tan balloon shades, a navy trellis armchair by the plaster mantel, a yellow canvas of dark discs above it and a leather bull footstool on a pale green carpet

An oak trestle table and a leather bull on the pale green carpet: the room's weight sits low

  • One modern picture over a carved plaster mantel, and a gilded leopard under it to take the formality out
  • Balloon shades in plain tan cotton, left loose, with the original shutters kept in use below
  • An oak trestle table and a leather bull on the pale green carpet: the room's weight sits low
The living room along its length, a green glass disc chandelier under the barrel ceiling, cream sofas and club chairs on a pale carpet, floral curtains at the wood casements and a stone chimneypiece on the right

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