Hotel des Artistes located in New York City at 1 West 67th Street was built in 1917 as combination studio/residences for artists.  The typology for these typically small apartments were a double height studio space with a mezzanine bedroom and bathroom all fronted with a large steel casement window.  The mezzanine bedroom overlooks the studio and the space under the studio was a small efficiency kitchen and a sitting room.

Accepting the existing typology, this historic apartment has been restored and rethought for an executive in the beauty industry as a minimalist, decluttered envelope of space.  A strict order of elements and details and a limited material palette inform the design.

Large unbroken surfaces, extended planes and lines and the intermittent small detail increase the perceived volume of the space, underscore the order, and re-express the studio concept for the 21st Century.