Name: Stan
Location: Union Square / Greenwich Village
Size: 850 square feet — 1 bedroom
Years lived in: 5
Stan has lived all over the world and speaks more languages than there are days in the week. A fine sense of style seems to come naturally and without much fuss or fanfare.


When Stan bought this apartment five years ago, he took it over from a person with very creative interpretations of what a wall should look like. There were even more rounded walls than there are now, and the bathroom was divided from the bedroom by a curtain. After carving out space for a home office, Stan was left with a smaller but very functional bathroom as well as doors where there were none.
Stan's photo collection and art help put the final touches on his home. And of course the cute dog doesn't hurt!

Apartment Therapy Survey
Style: Eclectic, some modern, some mid-century, some 19th century
Inspiration: A friend's apartment in Beirut
Favorite Element: I collect photography and have trouble choosing a favorite but I have a Chad Kleitsch image of an empty museum gallery that looks more like a painting than a photograph. It's easy to get lost in it.
Biggest Challenge: Finding room for my books.
What Friends Say: My place makes them feel at home.
Biggest Embarrassment: The bathroom is through the bedroom so I have to make sure I don't leave too much laundry lying around.
Proudest DIY: Installing the ceiling fan and not decapitating myself in the process.
Biggest Indulgence: Custom made dining room chairs from Dune.
Best Advice: Elisabeth Steimberg Architects. She's incredibly talented and helped me a lot.
Dream Source: Neven and Neven Moderne, Hudson New York. They have great eclectic Mid-20th Century furniture that is restored in house.
Resources:
- • Living Room: Sofa - Classic Sofas, Dining Room Table - ABC, Dining Chairs - Dune, Armchairs - Neven and Neven, Cabinetry - AJC Studios, Sideboard - Conran Shop
• Bedroom - Dressers - vintage Eames from Neven and Neven, Chair - contemporary Eames, DWR
For more details on the kitchen in this wonderful one-bedroom, check out Stan's Performance Space.

Images: Jill Slater
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This is modern with a homey filling. Very nice.
Im so envious of the plentiful built-ins everywhere - and the curved wall is quite lovely, as well as the pair of white leather armchairs!
This is very nice indeed, but I'll ask the obvious question of what happened to your poor puppy?
It looks and feels like home. Great job!
Very nice! I love that it is semi modern, but also cozy! I am also wondering what happened to the pup. Maybe he just got fixed or something.
Wonderful apartment, one can't have enough built ins.
Poor cone head pup, hope he is ok.
Poor puppy! Dogs always look so sad when they have to wear those collars.
Love all your wall art, especially the large poster behind your bed. Your style is definitely cozy modern (who would have thought I could have used those two words together?) I love it!
I hate when I can't spell. That's "homey FEELING." Jesus!
...quite boring and neutral...
Ahhh the cone of shame...Great apartment! Love the pure but homey feeling of it.
CONEHEAD! Love it.
Beautiful place, well thought out and put together. I wish the photographer was a bit better, maybe it's just the place is too small to get the right angles...maybe I am just cranky?
Beautiful place! I love the mix of furnishings, and am like bepsf, very envious of all of those beautiful built-ins.
I love how you were able to incorporate so many large pieces of art into your home. They look both strategic and effortless.
LOVE that gorgeous bedrooms!!! The books!
OMG, all those gorgeous books!!!!!
Very nice. Love the Flash Gordon poster and the furniture. But no shots of the kitchen when it's the apartment of a chef?? And, yes, very cute dog! I hope he didn't spend long in the Cone of Shame.
Very very nice.
Totally enjoyed the tour!
@pencils--follow the link above to see the small but very functional kitchen with the owner cooking a delicious frittata. very nice space that is well thought out & nicely styled. bedroom is esp. lovely. cute dog & hope she/he will get to lose the cone soon!
Great apartment. Neven and Neven Moderne is a great store and we have bought many of our pieces there, including having one of our chairs refinished by him.
What kind of AC is that in the window and what did you do to make the clear sides? I would like to replicate.
Lovely apartment. Cozy and stylish is hard to pull off. A lot of the time it's one or the other, but I love how you combined both.
And hope the kiddo is cone-free soon.
The art totally makes it for me! I like all the neutral--makes it feel clean and open. I like the bedding, too.
Love this apartment.
Books everywhere, even in the windowsill, and a lovely dog: that´s style.
The lightbulb poster in the bedroom is fantastic!
This apartment is superb. Graceful, cohesive but not cookie-cutter, a place that is simultaneously comfortable and elegant, and uniquely reflective of the person who lives there. And any home filled with books and art has to belong to an interesting person. Bravo!
Decor-wise, I love everything Stan's done, everything he's doing, and everything he's going to do. Bookish and warm yet clean and crisp, with an enviable art collection. I especially like the bedroom combination of white-on-white-on-grey and the retro advertising poster.
You had me at Tizio.
Lovely, organized, masculine, artful, personal.
Love your home and your doggie.
Built-ins rule!
Absolutely lovely. Were I to move in I wouldn't change a thing. Not one. As others have said, modern and cozy plus it looks effortless. Want.
Gorgeous. This place has a mature, lived-in look but still a touch of whimsy. Hard to pull off, but you've done it! I like all of the smart storage solutions. Beautiful built-ins everywhere!
I love this apartment, and I love Stan.
beautiful home. and he lives at union square. i'm jealous *sigh*
A real home; has its red thread of style yet manages to stay "normal". Well done!
Great home, great objects, & great art! But I have to say the Elizabethan collar is a new low. Tell me the collar wasn't brought in just for the staging? *sigh*
Great job! The built ins are awesome as is the moulding, both definitely make the space. Adding the small office very good idea even if it takes some away from the bathroom. The only thing that kind of bugs me though is the choice of toilet, but maybe it was a space issue.
What color is your living room? it looks great.
a-maz. love the books.
Bold use of dog with cone! ;)
Love this place, except I am totally not into white leather at all, otherwise, I dig it, great job. A real person lives here.
love the dining room table and chairs!
What's so inspiring are the bookshelves. No minimalist clutter free fantasy here.
Clothes make the man but art makes the home.
Loved it all.
Thanks for all the comments. Here is an attempt to answer some of the questions:
1) My dog had been neutered a couple of days before and the cone was to protect him from licking the suture. He's all better and the cone is long gone. So, no it was not a prop.
2) RE: The air conditioner in the bedroom - it is, I believe, made by LG. It works very well. I had the contractor bolt it to the window frame so its stays all year long. We put in two panels of acrylic to replace the plastic accordions that come with the unit. Its sealed with clear caulk and doesn't leak at all.
3) The toilet is standard issue to work with the old plumbing of the building. It's boring, but works well. Tank toilets don't work in this situation.
4) Living room paint - Because I have a lot of black and white photographs I needed a color that doesn't fight with the art. The options are pretty limited - deep reds work well, I went with a pale beigey brown because I wanted the room to not be too dark. Sorry, i don't remember the exact color.
Happy to try and answer any other questions.
S