Apartment Life: A Jewel of an Alcove Studio
A tiny Manhattan pied-à-terre shows off a sophisticated and glamorous new style.
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Bluesy Bonnie Raitt-inflected tunes are the specialty of the singing-songwriting half of the couple who owns this pied-à-terre in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan, so you’re unlikely to hear her covering the Beatles’ 1967 hit “With a Little Help from My Friends.” Yet she’s the first to admit that it’s an appropriate theme song for the cozy 600-square-foot alcove studio the two women have owned since 2006.
“We knew we needed a designer,” says her theater producer partner. “We had a mix of furniture with no cohesion whatsoever.” But the duo also had a tight budget, so they turned to their friends Matthew White and Frank Webb of White Webb.
White admits, “We don’t normally take on projects this small, but it became a family effort, which helped keep costs down.”
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