Name: Gordon Gekko
Location: Bizzi & Partners' New Setai Hotel/Condo on 36th and Fifth Avenue
Size: 2500 square feet — 3 bedroom condo & 58th floor
Years lived in: 3 months
Richard Hallberg designed this penthouse apartment for a fictitious client — Gordon Gekko, infamous bachelor of the recent sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps for this years Designer Visions: Cinema Style.
"Integrity is the theme, says Hallberg. "So the apartment is about beautiful design and collecting quality." Taking the best at his disposal, the designer juxtaposes 18th and 21st-century furniture with modern art and Roman antiquities.
The apartment is all about contrast — playing black against white, with the occasional striking color added to dramatic effect. Gekko is an extreme character, so there was no need for subtlety. Hallberg left a number of clues around the home to make it clear who lives here and what he does for a living.
Resources:
Study
- • Woven black leather wallcovering: Phillip Jeffries
• Cowhide patchwork rug with leather binding: Mansour
• Sarus desk lamp: David Weeks/Ralph Pucci
• Quarry console: Formations
Living Room
- • Wall color: Ralph Lauren in Mother of Pearl
• Drapery fabric: Duralee
• Twig wall sconces: Vaughan
• Lens table: Holly Hunt
Master Bedroom
- • Linens: Wamsutta
• Gold Alpaca throw: Crate & Barrel
• Black fabric headboard: Duralee
• Mattress, topper: Hastens
To see more details of Gordon's kitchen, check out Wall Street at the Setai on The Kitchn.
Images: Jill Slater
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Greed IS Good!
When can I move in?
Source for the steel console in the hallway?
"Source for the steel console in the hallway?"
That's not an off the shelf/catalog item - You'd have something like this fabricated by your local steelworker/welder shop to your specifications.
Very nice place indeed :-)
Would like to inquire on the plant used in the bedroom and the double floor lamp next to the couch.
Keep up the good work
I think this misses the point a bit. While "Greed Is Good" may have been Gordon Gekko's motto, he wasn't crass. Having gaudy dollar sign artwork and a 'money never sleeps' pillow wouldn't have been him. I think this is just too literal and obvious a translation of a film character to the real world and does embody what he/the film truly stood for.
My 2¢.
Oops, typed too fast. Meant to say "...and doesn't embody what he/the film truly stood for."
You mean that's not Ikea? LOL.
Where can I get the "money never sleeps" pillow? It would be PERFECT for someone on my Xmas list....
Dido on the Money Never Sleeps pillow! I think I'll make one just like it!
I would never ever think such a tiny end table would work with sofa, but the floor lamp (cleverly disguised as a planter) balances it out and makes it work.
If I have learned one thing at AT, it's the concept of contrast. "Taking the best at his disposal, the designer juxtaposes 18th and 21st-century furniture with modern art and Roman antiquities."
Absolutely gorgeous. Love it!
WHAT!!! I need to live here now!
Like everything except the bedroom. Looks like the dorm of a Gordon Gekko wannabe. Gordon's bedroom would be sexy.
Other than the bedroom, I would move in now. I can definitely see myself being very comfortable there... absolutely beautiful!
Can you (or one of the readers) source the reading lamps by the daybed?
Lots of really nice pieces and vignettes, but the overall effect is cluttered, confused, pointedly expensive, over designed, and slightly tacky. But I'm pretty certain that was just the effect the designer was going for with a space for Gekko. Great job!
I'm DROOLING over that study. I think I need a black leather room RIGHT THIS MINUTE! Why didn't I ever think of that???
I'm glad I never bet on AT reader response. Cuz I would have lost a TON on this one.
Dr. Theopolis... if I remember the original movie correctly, his Darryl Hannah-designed bedroom, for example, was the height of post-modern, slightly Memphis "chic". Just past the line onto "crass" territory.
I find it funny that in this post-ENRON era, there is ANY room to fantasize/idolize a Gordon Gecko character. And here, it is done without any sense of irony. This project is MARKETING to its audience with Gecko as a figure to emulate.
Dear god.
Beautiful lamps by David Weeks
http://www.davidweeksstudio.com/products/types/lighting
I'm in agreement with P2 on this one, but I love the overall design and furnishings.
Patrick--
As I recall from the original film, GG's place was a beach house on the Hamptons - and the very height of 1980's-era good taste...
...it was Charlie Sheen's apartment in Manhattan that was subjected to Daryll Hannah's OTT Faux-Brick/Verdigris-ed Plaster/Spraypainted Ligne-Roset Sofa/Chunky-4-poster-bed-w/-toy-dinosaur-finial/Tizio lamp/"Roman-Bacchanalia" treatment.
I think they were having some fun with some of the details (a wink a ya for Sarah fans) and it's for a movie character so they're stretching a bit because Gekko is already an iconic figure - so, over the top is what's expected. However, this isn't shlock - this is good stuff, even if there is a bit too much of it to make a point. The finishes are drool-worthy. The quality, the views, the light, that kitchen, that BATHROOM, the floors -- gorgeous. Take away about half of the chachkas and doodads and in-jokes it would be divine.
bepsf--
Don't forget the Schnabel.
Way too, too, too.....
Like a Hummer, nothing there that doesn't signal excessive.
My 2 ditto.
Money does sleep if the economy is doing poorly...this is a tad in bad taste, when we have so many in this country who are out of work and struggling!
'Integrity' would be using a character like Forrest Gump as your fictitious client, but I guess that wouldn't sell!
I thought the whole point of the Darryl Hannah character was that she was a talentless bimbo who did well only because she, well, 'did' the men. (Forgive my crass way of putting it, but it does seem to fit the thread of the comments.)
Is it odd that I really want to the closet space in the master bedroom? Or does it just mean that I'm a New Yorker?
Luxurious. I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to live there. Maybe just for one summer.
So this is how commoners live, she says sarcastically.
Stunning! Really beautiful, tailored place. BRAVO!!
Can anyone tell me where the black reading lamps are from that appear in several places in this tour?
IF you take away the money pieces, I think its lovely, can see myself getting ready in the bathroom (dream on!)
whow! best design work I have ever seen! stunning, so inviting.. it probably has to do with the glass surface and the light..but never the less, the way the afternoon light is emphasized by the color scheme of the artificial flowers.. simply marvelous!