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MODERN BEACH HOUSE

This modernist beach compound on seven
secluded acres marks the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration with a longtime client,
whose family had outgrown the space of their previous seaside residence. The project involved the complete and fully detailed new creation of multiple independent structures including a large, new main house. The interiors marry easygoing comfort and honest, understated craftsmanship with elevated curating, as the family’s collection of significant European and American modern master furniture
and fine art matures and mixes with simpler finds and furnishings. In a departure from more expected, summer watercolor palettes, a layering of natural modern materials and soft, weathered finishes brings the meditative surrounding woodlands and sea meadows into a rich indoor-outdoor relationship.

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COUNTRY MARKET

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FIFTH AVENUE

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57th STREET

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SOHO DUPLEX LOFT

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TRIBECA LOFT

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KIPS BAY

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THE ACADEMY

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LITCHFIELD

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WEST VILLAGE LOFT

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CHELSEA TOWNHOUSE

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NYC PENTHOUSE

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57th STREET TODAY

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BEACH HOUSE

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BROOKHAVEN

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SOHO ON BROADWAY

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CONNECTICUT

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HOTEL AND GYM

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    COUNTRY MARKET

    Reviving the neighborhood pleasures of the general store, the Copper Beech market in the village of Bellport, Long Island, repurposes a 1930s building that once held the town’s grocery store. Meticulous renovations are ongoing to restore and restructure the original architectural detail of the building. The design of the space invokes vintage artists’ studios, Northern California indoor-outdoor living, and the seaside elegance of the south of France, to create an easy,loft-like emporium. Curated home furnishings, antiques, collectibles, art, seasonal staples, and prepared food offer quality choices for locals and weekend visitors to provision their households. Founded by Thomas O’Brien and Dan Fink, Copper Beech represents a new home brand that will evolve with future stores in New York and elsewhere.

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    MODERN BEACH HOUSE

    This modernist beach compound on seven
    secluded acres marks the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration with a longtime client,
    whose family had outgrown the space of their previous seaside residence. The project involved the complete and fully detailed new creation of multiple independent structures including a large, new main house. The interiors marry easygoing comfort and honest, understated craftsmanship with elevated curating, as the family’s collection of significant European and American modern master furniture
    and fine art matures and mixes with simpler finds and furnishings. In a departure from more expected, summer watercolor palettes, a layering of natural modern materials and soft, weathered finishes brings the meditative surrounding woodlands and sea meadows into a rich indoor-outdoor relationship.

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    FIFTH AVENUE

    This formal prewar, floor-through apartment
    on Fifth Avenue, across from the Metropolitan
    Museum of Art, began with meticulous restora-
    tion and elaborately detailed new architecture.
    Interiors continued on with the creation of a
    collection of art, antiques, and furnishings that
    is both a backdrop for sophisticated entertaining
    and a genuine world for family life. The collection
    is modern to live with, but is not only modern in
    origin: selections range from antiquities to bold
    twentieth-century master photography. Many
    pieces of custom-designed furniture were hand-
    crafted for the residence in the mode of antique
    classical pieces. A palette of cool, restful greys
    and blues lends modern understatement to
    the iconic New York location.

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    57th STREET

    This is the first and only apartment that I’ve owned
    in New York City, and I live here still today. At the
    time of this first renovation when I bought the
    apartment, I wanted a pale, spare retreat in the
    peacefulness of the space, illuminated by its
    chapel-like, towering pair of 1930s metal casement
    windows. I chose the refreshing bareness of empty
    walls, few but large, good pieces of furniture, and
    antique modern colors from parchment and light
    grey to rich indigo and soft green. The tiny galley
    kitchen was the major redesign, using classic
    1920s details that I return to in many other
    projects: slender, tall, unpaneled and painted
    cabinetry, pocket doors, mirrored backsplashes,
    marble counters, and un-patterned,
    sparkling mosaic floors.

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    SOHO DUPLEX LOFT

    Deciding between a move uptown or staying
    downtown, this young family chose to commit
    to a raw duplex penthouse loft in central Soho.
    The aim of the project was to design a more formal
    European townhouse inside the huge scale of the
    loft, complete with four large terraces, a significant
    kitchen, and a social, flexible dining room. All-new
    architecture based in classical Georgia detail
    provided a sense of history. The assembly
    of antique furniture represented a new level of
    collecting for the client, while remaining quite
    pristine and edited. The hallmark pale blue and
    pearlescent, golden palette was inspired
    by an Alfred Hitchcock movie, giving
    the interior its feminine, cinematic feel.

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    TRIBECA LOFT

    The intensive restoration and furnishing of this
    previously converted 19th century mercantile club
    took place around the same time as the Soho
    Duplex Loft
    . It represents another way of working
    with architecture beyond the modern loft language,
    to reflect a more historical interior. Principle
    construction was assigned to the perimeter of the
    loft, to create a kitchen, bedrooms and luxurious
    bathrooms with the dramatic scale and highly
    crafted detail of the surviving, ornate core of the
    space. The antique modern style of the rebuild was
    then the bridge to a collection of significant early modernist furniture that was put together for
    the client, completing a very masculine,
    social, designed urban residence.

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    KIPS BAY

    The designing of kitchens and bathrooms is a
    favorite area of detailed architectural and interior
    work. One special opportunity to do a true fantasy
    bathroom came in 1999 at the Kips Bay Show-
    house in New York, just as I was launching my
    first collection of retro-modern bath fittings with
    Waterworks. There is a boldness to the architectural
    and industrial design of the early skyscraper age in
    America, which inspired this large bathroom and
    sitting room suite as well as many other products
    I was designing at the time. Certain custom
    elements here, like the oversize shower stall, the vintage-style lighting, and the walnut and marble
    vanity based on a 1930s worktable, are ideas that I
    continue to adapt in many interior projects.

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  • the_academy

    THE ACADEMY

    My home on Long Island was built in 1833 as a boy’s academy. The original Neoclassical schoolhouse was first made into a residence and expanded in 1921. Nearly a century later, my own renovation involved the loving work of repairing a landmark building and collaborating with the local preservation board: an engagement that we often oversee with older homes in historic districts. Inside, the space is my loft-like, Aero version of a restored country house, mixing favorite vintage modern pieces with American country furniture and many an antique collection. Slipcovers and pale finishes, and a focus on a big gathering-place kitchen, make it comfortable and casual; an easy house for family life with pets, gardening, and time to recharge.

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    LITCHFIELD

    This 19th and early 20th century Dutch Colonial estate, set in a particularly beautiful, unspoiled corner of Connecticut, is a more formal interpretation of a country house than the Academy. Work began as an early visit to the property with new clients, and has continued on through a full restoration, including varied outbuilding and landscape designs. The style here is traditional, but in its spareness and soft, meadow-like palette, it is also sympathetic with a modern perspective. Antiques were chosen for pure silhouettes, in a mix of fine European pieces with simpler American ones. Woodwork is prevalent yet delicate, and upholstery and finishes are universally elegant, providing a dignified character to a house
    designed for generations.

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    WEST VILLAGE LOFT

    This loft apartment was created in response to a longtime client’s personal collection of Jean Prouvé and other important French modern furniture. The aim was to allow the pieces to be part of a comfortable, easy family home: to celebrate the original utility of modernism, rather than display furniture in a remote or formal way. Additional European and American modern furnishings and fine art were chosen for the residence, including ongoing acquisitions at auction, to build a truly individual, informed collection. The raw loft was given crafted yet simple architecture, designed to echo vintage modern studio spaces. Linear masonry, refined metalwork and cabinetry, and other industrial influences are drawn from
    the same period as the furniture.

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    CHELSEA TOWNHOUSE

    One of the studio’s early projects, documented in informal snapshots. The feel here was rich, dark,
    and masculine, celebrating rather than erasing the moodiness of an old townhouse’s small rooms and silhouetting, north-south Manhattan light. Deep stony colors in greens, browns and greys created a warm setting for art, books, and refurbished midcentury modern finds, including pieces by Gio Ponti and other later modern Italian designs. The townhouse was subject to an absolute renovation, preserving key elements like the beautiful, mid-19th century winding staircase. Others were reinvented, including a fireplace mantle that became a favorite Aero form, and the retro Formica cabinets in the kitchen with grommet holes for handles.

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    NYC PENTHOUSE

    An interior architecture project in the purest sense,
    this carefully considered penthouse apartment was
    the product of a lengthy collaboration with a well-
    known fashion designer. The inspiration was French
    and Italian modernism of the 1920s, immaculately
    pared down yet very luxe. The entire residence was
    crafted in only five major materials, used in each
    room in different measure: specially developed
    varnished linen, shagreen tile, nickel, plaster,
    and walnut. The sensuality and warmth of these
    beautiful finishes lets the simplicity be serene rather
    than austere. The artisanal construction is held to
    the highest standard; the architectural furniture is
    fully partnered; and the geometry of the
    spaces is the emphasis.

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    57th STREET TODAY

    After a time living in this apartment, I began to
    shift from the calm of a sparely furnished space to
    the fullness of all the art that surrounds me today.
    I had been collecting art in greater depth and
    seriousness: modern master photography and
    paintings, antiquities, ancient Chinese and Celtic
    objects, ceramics and silver, sculptural pieces by
    Giacometti, Bertoia, Nakashima. Here I brought all
    of my interests together in the style of an artist’s
    studio, even moving my bed into a niche of
    the large main room. One entire wall is hung with
    portraits, a subject I find particularly fascinating.
    Building a truly diverse, personal art collection is
    a part of creating a home that I find so important,
    and which I do love to carry out for my clients.

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    BEACH HOUSE

    Easy and collected, the decoration of this charming
    Victorian shingled beach house comes out of the
    design world of the store, much like the viewpoint in
    my Brookhaven house. Reimagining traditional
    beach and cottage style in a vintage modern key
    remains a favorite for the more country-influenced
    clients of both the studio and store. Refurbished
    modern furniture from Aero mixes with local
    antiques, family pieces, and other Aero uphol-
    stery. Soft, cloud-like colors and layers of floral
    and striped patterns are refreshed yet familiar.
    The pale blue of the dining room, paired with
    dark wood, is a light and dark balance that
    recurs in many projects. The accessories in the
    house, a mix of antique and new, have the
    personal feel of being gathered over time.

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    BROOKHAVEN

    The first home of my own was this small 1928
    Dutch Colonial on Long Island. Oftentimes
    old houses have a wonderful authenticity and
    unassuming, honest craft that deserve to be left
    alone. Renewal and refinement in this house came
    in modest measures like warm ivory and stony
    green paint colors, classic wooden reading room
    Venetian blinds, and waxed floors. While the
    furnishings here were mostly American country
    antiques, culled from constant trips around Long
    Island and upstate New York, I saw in them a
    more modern point of view. The simplicity in an object’s plain geometry, or natural color, can
    make it modern even when it is old or rustic.
    Using country things in a clean, spare, edited
    way is a throughline that began here.

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    SOHO ON BROADWAY

    The assignment in this classic Soho, art-filled
    loft was for furnishings, styling, and further art
    consultation, working in collaboration with a prominent architect. The arts-based client had
    previously been a customer of the Aero store.
    Warm neutral tones and large, easy upholstery balanced the cool modernity of the new
    architecture, while aspects of graphic color,
    as in collection of bright 1960s posters, were
    paired with strong silhouettes like our vintage-
    style Thompson Side Table.This period of Soho,
    with its shift from artist spaces to full residential
    loft conversion, recalls the downtown creative
    world that Aero originated in, and from which
    many of our clients have come over the years.

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    CONNECTICUT

    From the earliest days of Aero, I’ve always believed
    in mixing together traditional and modern things,
    casual and elegant things, city and country. This
    1920s Connecticut cottage reflected a similar
    duality. Though a very pretty, vintage house with
    original paneling and millwork, it had large,
    beautiful, metal casement windows that
    introduced the light and openness of an artist’s studio. The rooms were given pale walls and floors in a loft-like idiom. The urban-to-antique furniture was from my first commercial collection, while other lamps and accessories were artisan-crafted studio pieces that I designed for Aero. Dark wood is set against a light background; embellished shapes
    pair with clean modern ones. The style,
    like the house, is old and new.

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    HOTEL AND GYM

    In addition to residential projects, the studio also
    designs retail, commercial, and hospitality spaces.
    From early stores for Donna Karan and Giorgio
    Armani, to current and ongoing store development
    for West Elm, Pottery Barn, and Williams-Sonoma,
    there is always a deep home interior perspective
    brought to the work of creating public venues.
    Two projects that illustrate this approach are
    60 Thompson hotel in Soho, and the David Barton
    gym
    on the Upper East Side. Recent work in real
    estate development also bridges public and
    domestic design. We are privileged to be creating
    the interior design for the entirety of The Greenwich
    Lane,
     an historic, multi-building residential complex
    in the heart of the West Village, currently
    under construction.

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    BRIDGEHAMPTON

    The assignment of furnishing this Norman Jaffe
    house, nestled in the trees on a beautiful coastal
    landscape, focused on vintage and modern
    naturalism. Colors, materials, and shapes in each
    room became echoes of the cedar wood, stone, and
    tile of which the house was built. In a longstanding
    collaboration with this client, a core collection of fine
    European modernist furniture has been expanded
    and softened with American modern antiques and
    a wide range of designed objects from Aero. Spare,
    simple living with an elemental warmth is the
    character of the home, but also, importantly, it is
    the spirit of the family that comes through in a
    number of city and country residences
    that we have created together.

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    SAGAPONACK

    Sometimes a piece of furniture that is designed
    for a particular space becomes the inspiration for a
    lasting product. This is the case with a table made
    for a client’s home in the fields of Sagaponack, a
    classic shingle house transformed with white stucco
    into a more modern residence. Following the low,
    clean gestures of the renovation, I designed two
    table forms with a very simple teak frame, each
    topped with an inset sheet of glass notched around
    the leg. When I opened Aero, I had another set of
    these tables made for the store. Later I moved them
    into our conference room, and replaced the glass
    with grey gloss Formica. These are the tables I still
    work at today, where so much of the studio’s
    design has taken place over twenty years.

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