The Eating Room: One wall of the fifth-floor area that faces the kitchen is painted by artist Mark Mulroney.
Picture: Garrett Rowland
I don’t like boring; she doesn’t like boring,” says designer Ghislaine Viñas of her longtime shopper and pal Paige West, proprietor of this “trendy, graphic, and wacky” Tribeca home. West was Viñas’s first shopper when she began her follow, and she or he designed West’s workplace area within the Starrett-Lehigh Constructing in 1999, adopted by her Federal townhouse in Greenwich Village. Then West moved right down to this home, which Viñas has now adorned twice.
West initially purchased the 15,000-square-foot, six-story former warehouse 14 years in the past along with her then-husband, John Keeler. Viñas had teamed up with structure agency DDG Companions on remaking it. Initially, there have been two models, which later got here in helpful when the couple cut up up. Keeler and his second spouse lived on the primary three flooring, and West lived upstairs with Christopher Cooper, to whom she is now married. Their youngsters moved forwards and backwards.
“All people knew our state of affairs,” West says of the blissful, if unconventional, association. “We have been even approached a few tv present.”
When her ex “lastly moved out, that was a possibility for Coop and I to redo the home in order that it was ours.”
West, an artwork collector and curator, went to school desiring to be an artist however ended up working in enterprise. Later, she determined to mix her pursuits by finding out the enterprise of artwork at Christie’s and in NYU’s arts-administration program.
Her father, Alfred West, based the funding agency SEI. In 1996, she began a program to embellish the corporate’s places of work with works drawn from the household’s 3,100-piece artwork assortment, some objects from that are used on this home. In 1999, she based the net art-sales platform Blended Greens (which later opened an area in Chelsea).
“I closed Blended Greens for what I’m creating now,” West says, describing the large museum venture she has been engaged on with the structure agency LO-TEK, which can home a part of the West Collection in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood. West purchased the Otis Elevator warehouse there in addition to an adjoining vacant lot that she is planning to rework into public inexperienced area and a sculpture backyard.
Again in New York, her home is now united. “I believe I’ve pushed her consolation zone. We will positively cling artwork on the wallpaper,” West says of her synergy with Viñas. “However one factor I wish to stress is that Ghislaine and I very a lot design the area we love after which I put the artwork in. Ghislaine says it’s just like the icing on the cake.”
The Rec Room: On the fourth ground, there are customized tables designed by Ghislaine Viñas. The painted wall and doorways are by 3 Fingers Portray.
Picture: Garrett Rowland
Picture: Garrett Rowland
The Upstairs Residing Space: Two 2018 Derrick Adams work — on the left, Determine within the City Panorama, No. 19, and proper, Determine within the City Panorama, No. 20 — cling in thefifth ground off the library. The striped wallpaper is by Abigail Edwards.
Picture: Garrett Rowland
Picture: Garrett Rowland
Picture: Garrett Rowland
The Upstairs Eating Space: Subsequent to the fifth-floor kitchen is the portray Elena, College Woman, by Julian Opie.
Picture: Garrett Rowland
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