The Entry: The door is painted Yves Klein blue. On its left hang antique Venetian mirrors. Photo: Annie Schlechter/B) Annie Schlechter 2021 I never imagined I would be in a postwar building,” Alexandra Pappas says. Indeed, for 18 years she rented an apartment across the hall from me in the five-story 1854 West Village brownstone where I live still; she threw wonderful parties. “I remember walking into that building on 9th Street and thinking, Oh my God, I found the place of my dreams,” she says.
“When I first saw it, I had come from this European crumbly brownstone, and I was thinking that I wanted it to be very severe and Bauhaus,” she says. “All my references were from that era. But then it sort of morphed into something more Italian mid-century.” She worked closely with the architect David Mansfield and Miron. The building’s modernism seemed refreshing, up to a point.
The Arches: Architect David Mansfield’s renovations included opening up the closed-off dining area with graceful arched pocket doors that can privatize the library/guest room. The Kitchen: Pappas loves to cook and entertain so she enlarged the galley kitchen, installing appliances by SubZero and Wolf.Her Bedroom: The bed is custom-made, and the blue wall upholstery is in Spencer velvet that Pappas salvaged from the room she and Miron designed for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House in 2019. Vintage faux Miros hang above the bed.
Photographs by Annie Schlechter The Entry: A Giacometti lithograph hangs above the antique console found at Doyle. The large black-and-white painting is by Julian Opie. The red sculpture is 1970s metal sourced at Theron Ware in Hudson. The apartment’s parquet floors were replaced with wide oak plank from Carlisle Flooring.
The Dining Area: Defined by a custom banquette designed by Pappas Miron, the dining area has a couple of specific inspirations: “Tatyana’s rose-colored glass in her bar and a project of Frank de Biasi’s where he had done almost a room divider in blue glass with a piece of art hanging in front of it,” says Pappas, “and I thought that was the coolest thing I had ever seen.” She loves the use of colored mirror that seemed like this “weird, forgotten cool material.
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