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New York Magazine: WORKac pushes the Rental

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Over the Top. We told you it was full of great stuff! In another feature in their Home Design special The Next White New York Magazine goes inside the radical redefined rental of Art Advisor Sharon Coplan Hurowitz and her family. Hurowitz hired Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, principals of WORKac, to alter the apartment. Because it's a rental, this means lots of paint and removable furnishings...

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The green lattice is the Bouroullec brothers' Cabane structure, one of only three made.
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This must have been an amazingly fun project. The renters' furniture and collections is a contemporary design afficiando's dream (and borderline crazy!)!

(Photographs by Adam Friedberg)

Comments (9)

That wallpaper would drive me insane.

posted by GothamTomato on 2007-05-16 10:23:11
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this apartment is so fresh and appealing, the concepts used here are a great inspiration. i remember bidding on ebay for that sprouse saarinen table, it was to benefit diffa, only two were available. so that's where one went, where's the other?

posted by patrik on 2007-05-16 10:24:34
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While I'm not sure if the pattern of the wallpaper would drive me crazy, the prospect of having to remove the stuff from the ceilings someday almost certainly would. When I first moved into my last home (a long-neglected Victorian 'painted lady'), I found that there were 2-4 layers of wallpaper on the walls and ceilings of nearly every single room in the place, some dating back to about 100 or so years ago- it was fascinating, but quite unpleasant to remove.

posted by Isa on 2007-05-16 10:51:41
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Um...something tells me the owners wouldn't be removing the wallpaper themselves...

posted by aaron on 2007-05-16 11:00:03
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What is the wallpaper and where can I get it??? I love it. In small doses, not in large areas like they did though.

About removing wallpaper -

The lady I hired to hang wallpaper in my entry and wet-bar areas used a special sealer on the wall before putting up the paper.

She said it will make it easy to strip later.

I don't know what the name of the sealer is but your local wallpaper supply store (or wallpaper pro) probably does.

posted by boomer on 2007-05-16 11:22:26
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Yeah I think removing wallpaper and whatever else they installed in the apartment is something the owners would worry about.

posted by Lizz on 2007-05-16 11:38:11
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Too much clutter.

posted by Daily Nuance on 2007-05-16 13:22:29
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I know I've seen them before but does anyone know where to get the chandeliers in the kids' rooms?

posted by Lorie09 on 2007-05-24 16:54:19
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I'm mad for this -- what fun!

I know I've seen that stuffed animal chair before, but I can't place it...

posted by Kelly Sue on 2007-05-25 12:41:59
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