A Maximalist Condo With a Two-Story Garden and Moorish Arch
A person can pass in front of 587 avenue Washington About a thousand times without looking for three unusual windows. They are on the top floor, where the four -story brick building shrinks at the corner of Dean Street, and the glass is only half, like a balcony balustrade. Anglez your neck in a certain way, and you can see that they reveal a dark room without ceiling, which is actually a kind of fenced courtyard, closed in brick, covered with ivy, where a spiral staircase connects a secret two -story garden.
It was the main sale argument when TIM CROUTA fashion frame with a green inch, saw the place in 2009. “It is a single off of course,” he said. “Something you are waiting for in a way in the West Village, but for a new building? It was like” who on earth? “” Although 587 was new, it mixed with the pre -war walk and the converted warehouses of Crown Heights thanks to an ornamental cornice, stone lintels and dark brick walls – which are ideal for laouture in the locked terrace, where they were exposed. CROUT planted the lower garden to feel like a dark and closed hide and seek on the forest floor, then transformed the upper garden into a kind of alpine clearing, dotted with color. “In a magical and tale, as you climb, you are in the sunnier garden,” he said. A path on the roof leads into an eight figure, through rows of trees, and a ancient iron gauzebo which transported the stairs, room by piece, creates a space to drag and look at the sunset on the low Brooklyn buildings. “I really wanted a space that looked like a separation of the city,” he said. “And I like good modernism, but I just think it’s easier to immerse yourself if you have a bit moreInstead of a little less.
There are 40 to 50 grape varieties in the two gardens, and all are perennial, which limits maintenance. The Gazebo came from rider’s antiquities on the Atlantic and separates into small pieces that Tim Crout walked himself. Like most furniture, art and plantations, any interested buyer is offered. “I already have too much,” said Crout. From left to right: Photo: Tim CoutPhoto: Tim Cout
There are 40 to 50 grape varieties in the two gardens, and all are perennial, which limits maintenance. The Gazebo came from rider antiquities on Atlant …
There are 40 to 50 grape varieties in the two gardens, and all are perennial, which limits maintenance. The Gazebo came from rider’s antiquities on the Atlantic and separates into small pieces that Tim Crout walked himself. Like most furniture, art and plantations, any interested buyer is offered. “I already have too much,” said Crout. High: Photo: Tim CoutPhoto: Tim Cout
Price: 1.395 million dollars (monthly costs of $ 448, $ 184 annual taxes due to the reduction)
Specifications: 2 beds, 2 bathrooms
Extras: 450 square feet of outdoor space on two floors, washer-wire
10 -minute walking department: Natty Garding, Leland eats and Duence, Radio Bakery Prospect Heights
Listed by: Emma James, Corcoran
In the living room, a small collection of ancient glass bottles has developed over the years and turned into a rainbow. “There was no intention,” said Crout. “He started doing his own thing.” On the left is a taxidermia peacock, whose tail feathers were a correspondence to the colors of the apartment. The furniture has been padded with fabric with fabric generally used for the cover cover, he said. “They shine, like a jewel.”
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
Inside, space is certainly a little “more”. As he bought the apartment, worked in Chanel, Hermès, Céline, Pucci and Sergio Rossi had taken him around the world and he had spent decades to collect fleas, riots and auctions. Inspired by cities in the colors of Mexico and Morocco. (“I don’t like black and I don’t like white, but I’m going to take everything between the two.”) A friend helped him add texture by putting moldings, and he made the windows of new constructions more romantic by adding arches. The door that leads the guests of the Halto-Rouge Dark in a saturated and turquoise living room was personalized with a Moor’s arch. To raise the kitchen, he painted cabinets to correspond to the walls and installed art and the sconces at the doors in such a way that they swing, with everything that is attached. At the end of the kitchen counter, a window on the lower garden turned into additional storage when the crust built it to become a personalized bar, where the bottles are backlit by the light of the garden.
Visitors lying around a conventional staircase open the front door in a hall filled with lamps that the crust has collected over 20 years. “I really like anything”,
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
CROUT filled the lamp hall he found at the Grand Istanbul bazaar on Madison Avenue, then released a set of chess on the theme of the Aztecs he had picked up when he was a child during a family trip to Mexico. A smaller room has become an office that invoked a mixture of male club and medieval renewal, with leather furniture and Taxidermy animals in a closed room with a tapestry of a silhouette and a blacksmith dog In a swirling forest scene And an ancient chimney coat (purely decorative and completely removable, he underlines). The largest room was painted in a dark and hung eggplant with strange and dreamy paintings he picked up on the flea markets, while the light suspended above the bed came from the 1910 house of his grandparents in Denison, Texas.
CROUT is quick to emphasize that the apartment has no central theme – there is a touch of Tangier, Mexico and ancient Paris. “I like it’s a bit vague,” he said. “Not so literal.” But the key to all this could be a taxidermia peacock, that his father bought it in a store in Texas and that he put in the living room. His tail feathers are almost an exact correspondence for the paint samples he has chosen: turquoise, red, eggplant and blue. “Nature never lets you fall,” he said.
On the other side of the Moorish arch of the hearth, he added Mexican angel figurines to a piece inspired by Mexico City. The paintings, including a Marian Nielsen by George Washington and his soldiers, are flea market finds. An early use in Chanel won Crout A poster of an Andy Warhol printing of a bottle of Chanel n ° 5. His broker, Emma James, who also worked in the industry as a fabric designer, fell in love with the decor. “He has done things that people don’t do – there are works of art in the knee – but that makes a whole story on the wall. It’s so thoughtful.” However, she said: “The whole place can be white in a weekend.”
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
A wall of the lounge area is taken up by the kitchen. The doors of the cabinet are operational, despite paintings and sconces. Crout added arches to the windows here and transformed one of them into an additional storage for a bar where the bottles are backlit by the garden behind.
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
A view of the garden below, through the dining area of the lounge area. Crout planted the lower garden to look like a forest floor and limited the Greens and Violets palette with anxiety, the plantations could face the colors of the living room.
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
The stairs at the lower garden lead to a terrace. The apartment has 450 square feet of outdoor space on two levels. Design is a kind of mystery, said broker James, who pointed out that the other three units on the floor of the condominium building also have unique details, and one even has a parking space. But what makes the building really stand out from James is its monthly stockings. A fiscal reduction which lasts until 2035 means that taxes are $ 16 per month and monthly costs are less than $ 500.
Photo: Tim Cout
A garden upstairs is a question of sight. “I wanted a place where I could see the city and remember that I was in New York,” said Crout. At the same time, he wanted a respite. “This is more immersion than anything.”
Photo: Tim Cout
A view of Manhattan on low roofs.
Photo: Tim Cout
The fiberglass pots light up a load on the roof. The trees arrived in the form of plants. The crust pruned the rear trees to allow more light. “Whoever gardens knows that it will take as much time as you wish,” he said.
Photo: Tim Cout
Crust is always looking for means to give meaning to its choices of colors and to divide the garden between flowers in warmer colors on one side and those of cold colors on the other, which mix in a section of roses and violets.
Photo: Tim Cout
The Moroccan style hall brings back to the two bedrooms. Above a set of Aztec style failures that Crout bought during a family trip to Mexico is a Mughole room he bought in Texas from an antiques dealer, which specializes in Western parts but obtained it in a business of an Iranian client.
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
The primary bedroom bed faces a projector screen that has disguised by adding an eggplant molding and paint. Art includes a series of paintings from a painter based in Palm Beach, which he picked up in a chip.
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
The lighting of the primary chamber came from his 1910 grandparent house in Denison, Texas.
Photo: Al Seven in VHT
The second room is decorated with a little medieval renewal. James, the broker, stressed that the fireplace and moldings are “easy to undo”. Thus, while a buyer could take the apartment as it is with most of the art and furniture, James said that she could also promise a buyer a white box. “All this can come out,” she said. “You could spend a weekend painting and having a pretty normal apartment.”
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Another Moor’s arch defines the door of the second room. The crust specifies that he is not a “supporter” of taxidermia but grew up around Texas.
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The main bath.
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A second bathroom.
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