From a Townhouse to a Penthouse

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [A Bold Park Avenue Penthouse for Empty Nesters]( They were moving from a six-story townhouse. How to make it feel like home? The living room. Photo: Genevieve Garruppo After living in a six-story townhouse for decades and raising their family there, the empty-nester clients of interior designer [Phillip Thomas]( wanted to live on one floor. Thomas helped them find this Park Avenue penthouse to start the next phase of their life in. “Penthouses in prewar buildings often feel very small with low ceilings,” Thomas notes, “as they were converted from former storage spaces. But this apartment has wonderful bones. In many ways, it had all the qualities that they had grown accustomed to and loved after 40 years in their townhouse.” The blue room. Photo: Genevieve Garruppo [TAKE THE FULL TOUR]( Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [My Closet, My Office, My Nursery How five New Yorkers turned their closets into extra rooms.]( 2. [Into the 27-Year-Old Brooklyn Man’s Bedroom Comedian Rachel Coster’s ‘Boy Room’ is part comedy, part nature documentary.]( 3. [E.B. White’s Childhood Home Is for Sale The six-bedroom Mount Vernon mansion has recently been renovated.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved