NYC Apartment Furnishing

Congrats on your new apt. Good luck on the furnishing. My best suggestion would be to just grab a whole ton of magazines and copy from there. That is what I do. LOL!

 

congratulations!

to get you started:

- williams sonoma home
- west elm
- restoration hardware
- room & board
- hold everything
- bombay company

once in a while:

- crate & barrel
- pottery barn
- pier 1

 

Modern/Urban -- my kind of style. Check out:

-- MDC on 81st & Broadway ('high design' on a semi-budget)
-- Lee's Studio on 57th & Broadway'ish (tons of modern lighting/couches)
-- Bo Concept - several locations ('modern' IKEA, a bit more expensive)
-- Ligne Roset - several locations (ultra high end, priced accordingly)

 

For classic mid-century, check out Design Within Reach.

 

Ask Rob Ferretti.... give him $50.00 and he'll furnish the whole apartment for you.

 

oh, a joke. I was wondering what you were doing offering fashion advice.

 

yeah... that would be absurd...besides everyone knows that if you drive around the hamptons on the day after labor day you find all kinds of goodies thrown in front of houses recently evacuated by summer tenants, which are there for the taking. I've seen furniture, clothes, excersise equip, even food.... but that you have to be quick to get before the racoons go through it. Although they haven't found any rabbid racoons in suffolk this year, only nassau, so the food would probably still be OK, especially if it was kept in the freezer right before it was placed by the curb.

 

if you want to impress the NY chicks i suggest something like this--traditional with queen ann furniture. this is my living room at least half of it but you get the idea.
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go to comfort and design on west broadway and ask for danny

 

.......IKEA........................

FOR GOOD LOOKING, INEXPENSIVE, 1ST TIME FURNITURE..............

 

agreed

 

So true. Thanks for taking me shopping with you last year.
Hey, I caught you in a candid moment while checking out the merchandise:
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I thought Target was the store of choice?

 

IKEA, as long as you're okay with putting stuff together yourself.

 

AND READING DANISH

I USED TO THROW AWAY THE INSTRUCTIONS...FASTER BY YOURSELF...

 

Good point, IKEA stuff is a huge PITA to put together.

 

Swedish...you're thinking of snack time.

 

SAME SHIIT TO ME

 

Pchop got some nice slates and marbles for ya.

 

Not that it's equivalent in price to IKEA or stores of that ilk, that sell updated interpretations of Scandanavian modern, but alot of the mid-century modern stuff that's copied, e.g., in catalogs like Design within Reach and at stores like Palazetti (are they still even in business?) is not much more than the real thing. For example, the standard discount on Herman Miller and Knoll- two of the best known companies for some of the most famous high-end designer furniture- is at least 40% off retail. That means that you can buy a real Charles Eames lounge chair and ottoman for little more than a knock-off, and some of the knock-off's are pretty shoddy. This approach is based on an assumption that you want to buy a small number of high quality pieces, ones you can keep forever. Much of the classic furniture from the 20th century has been revived and is still being manufactured by authorized licensees. If you are patient, you can also assemble a nice combination of interesting antique furniture at fairly reasonable prices- tip, don't shop in the city, come up to the country, where the decorators buy the stuff on the cheap.
Good rugs you will pay a price for, but look at estate sales- yard sales in the better neighborhoods in Westchester, etc. Beds- Charles Rogers in the city sells very high quality wrought iron beds that are also classics and are not over the top in price. Bedding- call the 4 SEaoSons hotel. They can supply a fairly reasonably priced mattress/box spring/pillows that will blow you away.
All of this takes more time than simply going to a retail store and ordering a bunch of 'stuff' but the difference is well worth it. I have furniture that i have bought in Europe and had shipped back to the States, things i acquired when i was still a teenager and had an interest in design and objects, and none of it is easily replicated by what you can walk into a store and buy today. If you can live with a few good pieces- keep it spartan to start- you can gradually acquire things that you can keep a lifetime, and will remain classic, no matter what current fashion dictates. Your eye and sophistication also develops as you see and learn to appreciate more things of this nature. Take a few minutes, if you are near a Barnes & NOble, and go into the architecture design section and look at some of the home interiors shown. I'll bet the stuff that is most appealing is a combination of old and modern, done in a low-key, uncluttered style, without looking 'decorated.' There is truly an art to developing any eye for this stuff- and you can often find it on the cheap if you are patient and are willing to buy the instant you see something that clicks.

 

So when's the house party Bill? -

 

Kitchen is almost complete- then the house can be put back into shape. I'd be glad to host a get together here. It's quite beautiful. Only downside is a fairly steep driveway, unlike my prior house, which had oodles of parking space on level turf.

 

Hey if the 6.0 can make it up...

BYOWC (bring yer own wheel chocks!)

 

yep....absolutly agree