New York Living: Re-Inventing Home

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Amidst the many worthy books under way or published on New York architecture,design, and style, most focus on one style, one designer, or one residentialcategory. New York Living: Re-Inventing Home will instead celebrate or delight in abroad array of contemporary residences that have been renovated and re-inventedbut which emerge from traditional apartment or building types with historic rootsthroughout New York's five boroughs. This book will appeal to anyone interested inthe present state of design creativity in all of New York City: under-knownneighborhoods, previously ignored typologies, ingenious use of space, and how tomake a home within the city's entirely envied borders.

What does a home look like in twenty-first century New York New Yorkersonce had fixed ideas as to what was whatyou had the Park Avenue mansion, the5th Avenue Penthouse, the SoHo loft; the Lower East Side tenement, the BohemianVillage ruinbut now so much more is possible. This book celebrates the vastpossibilities open to today's urbanite, featuring more than 25 contemporaryapartments and town houses that exemplify this idea.

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"New York Living: Re-Inveting Homepresents a wide perspective on New York habitats - from expansive pedigreed apartments in Manhattan to Staten Island homes. Much like the inhabitants of New York, this book has a diverse range of apartments - layered, minimalist, classic and contemporary."
Forbes.com

Author Bio

Paul Gunther is executive director of the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, former president ofthe Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and former Vice President of InstitutionalAdvancement and Director of Development at the New-York Historical Society. GayGiordano is a writer based in New York.