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ANNOTATED ROOM

A Design Do-Over in Manhattan

When his client bought a place near her mid-renovation apartment, this designer simply reinterpreted the look in the new home

1.The 10-foot high doors were

handmade in Paris with straw mar-

quetry. They have custom bone

handles.//Price:$27,000 from Ma-

onia (doors) and Ochre (handles)

2.The sofa and chairs are by New

York upholstery workshop Jonas.

“The pieces are not inexpensive,

but that’s because they are cus-

tom-made in a super expensive

city by a family-owned company.

And they’re hand-made. All of

that comes into play,” he says.//

Price:$57,000 for the sofa, love

seat and two chairs

3.The cantilever-shaped, lime

green coffee table was made by

Mr. Doherty and inspired by a

similar piece he saw at a French

flea market. “The color doesn’t tie

in with anything else in the room,

but I thought it was a nice con-

trasting focal point for the sitting

area,” he says.//Price:$9,000

4.The dining table is from Italian

designer Angelo Mangiarotti and

took 14 weeks to make before it

was shipped over. “It is unbeliev-

ably heavy,” says Mr. Doherty. “I

think it took six guys to get it into

the apartment and ease it down

on the legs.”//Price:$40,000

5.The room’s most striking ele-

ment is the hanging light sculp-

ture from artist John Procario. It’s

made of curved wood with an

LED strip on one side.//Price:

$27,000 from Todd Merrill Studio

6. “A lot of what we bought was
   very tall in scale to work with the
   height of the ceiling,” Mr. Doherty
   says. “The lamp is quite tall and
   it’s got these big, solid unlac-
   quered brass rings.”//Price:
   $5,000 from Lucca Antiques

7.The rug was custom-made in a

mixture of wool and silk and has

a pattern that resembles pebbles.

//Price:$47,000 from Beauvais

Carpets

8.The two antique boxes on the

coffee table were sourced by an

antique dealer. One is a Louis XVI

embossed leather coffer, while the

other is from India and made

from engraved bone, porcupine

quill and sandalwood.//Price:

$9,600 and $7,700 from Gerald

Bland.

DESIGNER ALEXANDER DOHERTY

had just completed a living room

for a client’s new pied-à-terre in

Manhattan when he came across a

nearby industrial building being

converted into apartments. He was

particularly taken by the 15-foot

ceilings. “I thought, ‘this could be

so much better than what she’s

about to move into,’ ” says Mr. Do-

herty, who runs Alexander Doherty

Design. He shared his thoughts

with the owner, who works in in-

vestments, is in her late 40s and

also spends time in Paris and Mex-

ico. She agreed and bought a two-

bedroom apartment in the Madi-

son Square Park area building.

(Her initial apartment is currently

being rented.)

In the new place, he worked on

a living/dining area that opens

into the second bedroom, now set

up as a den. Overall, little was

changed from his original plans for

the home across the street. For in-

stance, the furniture he had cus-

tom-made for the prior apartment

fit perfectly in the new one. “If

you said to me, ‘had you started

from scratch, would you have done

the same things?’ I would say

moreorless,yes,”hesays.

Here are some of the design ele-

ments in the $318,000 room.

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$318,000

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