This landmark 1925 Manhattan building by J. Edwin R. Carpenter was originally an apartment house before it was remodeled as a hotel. Our client, a real estate developer for whom we had designed a house in Los Angeles, purchased the hotel for conversion to a condominium. We created a new Park Avenue entry and lobby for the apartments while maintaining the original lobby space on East 65th Street for a restaurant. Working with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, we were able to design a new Park Avenue apartment entry and lobby that connects to the restored elevator lobby. Our new spaces, which were required to be distinct from the Italian pre-Renaissance elevator lobby design, were executed in the Georgian style—classical moldings, limestone walls, black and beige stone floors, raised-panel mahogany doors—found in many Upper East Side apartments that our client admired.
Style
Traditional
Interior Design
Mica Ertegun
This landmark 1925 Manhattan building by J. Edwin R. Carpenter was originally an apartment house before it was remodeled as a hotel. Our client, a real estate developer for whom we had designed a house in Los Angeles, purchased the hotel for conversion to a condominium. We created a new Park Avenue entry and lobby for the apartments while maintaining the original lobby space on East 65th Street for a restaurant. Working with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, we were able to design a new Park Avenue apartment entry and lobby that connects to the restored elevator lobby. Our new spaces, which were required to be distinct from the Italian pre-Renaissance elevator lobby design, were executed in the Georgian style—classical moldings, limestone walls, black and beige stone floors, raised-panel mahogany doors—found in many Upper East Side apartments that our client admired.