Cool Idea: A Driftwood Buffer

CasaSugar — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:00:04 -0700

What do you do when your terrace backs up to Manhattan's most popular public space? Well, if you're a person with a normal desire for privacy, you build a fence, or at the very least plant some tall bushes. If you're gallerist Marianne Boesky, you have your landscape designer construct a 16-foot-wide buffer out of organic, dynamic driftwood. The L-shaped terrace of Boesky's coveted Chelsea apartment (which I featured way back in 2007) sits five feet from the High Line, a planted pedestrian walkway along the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, which reopened as a park in June. I imagine many homeowners might head straight to the picket line upon learning that their private space would become public. Boesky, on the other hand, headed straight for design. Her solution is beautiful, don't you think?

Coveted Crib: Marianne Boesky's Contemporary Traditionalist Mix

CasaSugar — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:49:05 -0700

Marianne Boesky is the owner of a self-titled gallery in downtown New York, she's a new wife and mother, and she lives in a dare-I-say "sick" apartment over her internationally acclaimed shop. The Marianne Boesky Gallery supports the work of contemporary international artists of all media, including Sarah Sze, Takashi Murakami, and Yoshitomo Nara—in other words, no fox hunting landscapes in sight.
Her husband, Liam Culman, an equity sales trader, who previously lived in a minimalist loft by Richard Gluckman, wanted to go for a traditional aesthetic this time. The couple commissioned Deborah Berke, an architect known for her elegant but minimalist modern brand of design, to find a way to balance the work of Boesky's emerging designer pals with traditional furniture pieces, architectural moldings, and dark wood floors. The result is a stunning achievement, and an inspiration for those of us with a significant other to please.

For more images of Boesky's home-above-work seen in The New York Times T Magazine, read more

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