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So serene! Great space!

Unreal. So beautiful and well-designed. Congratulations and may you enjoy it each and every day!

The double toilet paper rolls are breathtaking. bold. STARCK.

holy cripes, that's gorgeous! i love the niche wall in the tub, very nice detail. but most of all...i love the double sinks! nice job :)

You've certainly achieved a minimal look. I'm wondering if it is almost too minimal. Is there additional storage somewhere else in the room? I would be interested in seeing that.

I assume you keep your everyday hygiene products in the medicine cabinet? Did you consider mounting the medicine cabinets in the wall rather than on the wall?

You've got some nice pieces but I'd love to see a few stylistic elements to compliment them. The all white tiles almost create a blank canvas that needs something on it. These are not particularly eye catching tiles. The marble is different. If you like marble then you don't need to do anything to it.

What model did you go with for your soaking tub? Your tub area is beautiful. Mounting the faucet in the center really elevates the design. I would love to be able to have a little recessed shelf like you have in your tub.

I would agree that a pleasantly scented bathroom is better than the alternative.

Perfectly executed...kudos!!

imho, seems a bit .... institutional

Do you have heated floors, because that bathroom just feels so cold, its needs color it needs just something more. My eyes are not impressed.

WOW

I like it very much!!!

This is simple and clean, which I like. But it's also nothing very special. You can do this very easily without the high price tag of the Starck name. Doesn't seem to be worth the extra $$ according to these photos.

I like the faucets on your sinks very much.

Becky

Ditto on the beautiful tub area... I love the nook and the shelf. I too would like to know the model you went with for your tub and your bathroom dimensions. I'm wondering what I may be able to do with the size space I have.

Um, did anyone actually click on the link to downtown by starck that Miss Pumpkin mentioned?

You will see the renderings for these bathrooms which means that Miss Pumpkin did not design these herself. She did not say that she did either.

Still it's great to see how these turned out. Too often the reality is far from the renderings but in this case it is very close. I like the look too.


PS. would be very interested in hearing your thoughts on 15 Broad in general

umm...did she do anything other than add 2 rolls of toilet paper and some candles

...oh yeah, besides pay a couple of million for a nice apartment...

but i'm just jealous.

I don't see one shred of personality, comfort, thoughfulness...

This to me is the result of what happens when we're afraid to take any steps.

Not too put too fine a point on this, but, seriously, this is just depressing.

I don't see one shred of personality, comfort, thoughtfulness...

This to me is the result of what happens when we're afraid to take any steps.

Not too put too fine a point on this, but, seriously, this is just depressing.

I agree that while beautiful in its minimalism, to me it needs the tiniest extra layer... something organic, something a dark color, some art (even a tiny piece) to pull this from rendering to persoanl space.

o.k.

I'll be the first to admit that I was a little slow on this one.

You actually moved into a building called Dowtown by Starck! Forgive me, I am not from NYC so I did not make the immediate connection.

So what did you actually do besides put a cheap mat on the floor and light a couple of candles?

This building is already equipped with Philippe Starck fixtures. In essence, you are just showing us what is most likely a basic bathroom with no upgrades.

Sorry if I seem so shocked but I don't believe you have done anything here which shows any sense of style or creativity.

Philippe Starck would not be impressed. Did you look at the rendering of a bathroom on your building's website? Maybe you could get some ideas from that? If you have a choice, I would pick the book over the t-shirt.

aside from the owner not really doing anything, it's still a nice bathroom!

and it's bathroom month. enjoy the pretty pictures? si?

do your neighbors look like the people in the pictures??

Just wonder why you put that cheap waste basket... Didn't you ever consider white Vipp?

i don't really see how this post made it to AT. the owner didn't do anything aside from a bathmat and an ikea trash can. starck is inspiring but we could have gotten just as much inspiration, or more, just from browsing the building's website.

not a whole lot in terms of a point of view shown, IMHO.

i love how clean this is. some people find really minimal design too cold, but i find it relaxing. this is perfect. i wish i owned my place so i could do this kind of thing. i also wish my bathroom were this huge!

find the most difficult design with any bathroom is how to 'inspire water'.
plants have no difficulty with this in any season with even smaller spaces.
the main flaw in bathrooms is that we refuse to believe the room is symbiotic to our health.

the most divine example is the toilet...relieve your waste here and with a single swipe of the hand you can flush your sins away in a very ugly space wasting ergonomically incorrect throne with no regard to the action.
then wash your hands in a similar designed vessel that is also incorrect for the action.

it should be no wonder we love showers and tubs its like a walk in the rain and swim in the ocean.

BTW...children hate diapers and fear toilets; now run away and hide.

thank you for sharing, miss pumpkin, i am curious to see the new designer buildings here in nyc. i agree with patrick (the other one), an organic element, like an plant wouldbe a nice extra layer.

wow, a double toilet paper holder, how "every airport bathroom in the whole world". That Starcke is just so out there!!!

i usually love clean, minimalist looks, but this reminds my of a public dorm bathroom.
don't get me wrong, but where is all your stash ? for me, this bathroom wouln't work, i don't want to search the whole room to find a bar of soap to wash my hands.

If I came home after a tiring day wanting a nice long soak in the bath, walking into this bathroom would depress the hell out of me - I has one single nod to comfort - the bathmat on the floor - its so cold and unfriendly - not food for my soul

Re the double toilet roll holder - my mother had an excellent toilet roll holder in her old bathroom - she got a wooden kitchen roll holder designed to be fitted to the wall - painted it to match the bathroom - voila! - room for two rolls of toilet paper on it - everyone loved it and always commented ont he fact that she always had two different colours of paper on there

miss pumpkin, you also have a blog, don't you? i feel like i've seen these same exact pictures elsewhere. click on my name for her blog.

though she doesn't say that she designed the bathroom, i do believe this post is misleading b/c there was no work done besides adding a mat and a waste basket.

i'm usually inspired by the apts featured at AT b/c the pics show that a lot of work and creativity was put into the place. this one doesn't envoke those feelings at all, besides envy that one can afford such a sterile place.. which may have been the sole purpose of this post.

Where is some COLOR? How cold & uncomfortable.

I have to agree here. I actually like clean lines and uncluttered countertops but there has to be some personalization in your home.

It's a nice foundation but there is no colour, no artwork....the addition of those things would change the feeling entirely.

This really could be a day spa or hotel. In fact, if I had seen a picture of this not knowing it was someone's home I would have thought exactly that- that it was a hospitality space.

She did say she recently moved in. Cut her some slack, these things take time. You don't just want to rush out to Bed Bath and Beyond in order to fill your visual bathroom space just because you CAN. Maybe she is waiting to find things she really loves to decorate the area, and is just using the most utilitarian, inexpensive things possible for the "must haves" (toilet roll holder, rug)

That said, that toilet roll holder has got to go. It detracts in every way possible. As the only thing on that wall, it becomes the decoration. Which, whether you're going for a clean look or will decorate properly later, is not what you want.

If you must keep it, you might consider the black toilet paper I saw featured on here recently. If the eye is going to go there regardless, you might as well give it something unique to look at.

My friends just moved into the building and that has to be the most uncomfortable toilet I have ever used. And it's hard to flush! The faucets are hard to turn off after you wash your hands, you really have to dry your hands and then turn the water off. Very pretty but not practical.

I see this beautiful bathroom and then I think of my own and want to cry. It's just amazingly peaceful and elegant.

Have friends that moved into this building...nearly 2 years after the downpayment. Scary. Starck should've at least gone for a Toto toilet.

Can someone advise me on how to install those glass shelves in the bathtub? I also have a similar recessed nook in my bathroom. I live in Orange County, CA..

thanks
Lisa

Too funny...she didn't do anything to it...and it does look like a dorm bathroom..for $5,000 a month on mortgage, this space is quite cold and unfriendly...and there aren't even windows in there!

but reading your blog, you seem to want to exuberate $$$ but you're not very creative!

sammie, starck designed the interiors utilizing a lot of his own designs so seeing as he designs three bathroom ranges for Duravit why would he use someone else's design?

I also think the introduction of some additional layer (mostly styling) would allow you the opportunity to integrate this room more fully into the master bedroom that no doubt adjoins it.

But I would LLLLLLOOOOOOOVVVVVE to style this bathroom for a photo shoot! The tiniest introduction would go such a long way. That's what I love about white-on-white bathrooms... the ultimate chameleons.

Horrid yet a perfect example of how fools are easily parted from their money. The bathroom sinks look like urinals. Besides being Starck I see nothing special about them and I especially don't understand why Ms. Pumpkin is posting a bathroom over which she had absolutely no say or input. The only thing she added was the dullest of dull bathmats and it escapes me why someone would pay millions for an apartment and wouldn't even pay a few more dollars to spruce up/personalize the bathroom. I too am a minimalist but this looks perfectly institutional, mental institutional that is.

Thanks for sharing this - I've been interested in the property, and was curious as to how the bathrooms looked.

PS I love the lamps and the mirrors - feels a lot like his (better) hotels!

I'll second the mental institution comparision!