
ASH Staging and INC Collaborate on an Airy Penthouse in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill
With its 8,000 terra cotta panels interspersed with more than 300 windows, INC Architecture & Design‘s Saint Marks Place building is a breezy new addition to Brooklyn’s tony Boerum Hill neighborhood. ASH Staging chose to bring that same sense of light and air into the interiors, particularly the 1,755-square-foot, 3 bedroom/2 ½ bath penthouse with north and east exposure views and a private outdoor loggia.
Material including walnut, copper, and marble provide the framework. “True to the borough, many of the items were sourced from locally rooted vendors, from furniture to art to accessories,” says Ash Staging partner and head of staging Andrew Bowen, while “nods to global contemporary design intermingle with mid-20th-century inspired pieces.”
And while the palette is decidedly neutral—the better to show off all the natural light flooding through the floor-to-ceiling windows, not to mention the art objects—the team flipped the script for the guest bathroom. “We inverted the normal application of dark and light in a space by bathing the ceiling and upper portion of the walls in a near-black blue, leaving the off-white for the lower walls and moldings,” says Bowen. “It serves as an important memory point.”

















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