The top loft of the 1903 cast-iron Soho building hadn’t been touched in three decades. The renovation would need to be significant. But there was one feature designer Maurizio Bianchi Mattioli intended to preserve: a 30-foot-long south-facing window installed by the previous owner.
“We were very lucky to have the lot-line windows,” Mattioli says. “You don’t typically see them from the sidewalk.”
A young couple, Josephine and Alex de Pfyffer, an art dealer and an entrepreneur, respectively, hired Mattioli, the founder of Studio MBM, to overhaul the 2,400-square-foot penthouse loft. It had glossy, black-painted floors and barrel-vaulted ceilings, plus some “weird spaces,” says Alex. Josephine appreciated its open layout. |
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