Natalia Enze Earns a Best of Year Award for This Small Apartment That’s Big on Style

2021 Best of Year winner for Small Apartment

Although a tidy 980 square feet, the one-bedroom TriBeCa residence is a multicultural minestrone, its ingredients a blend of Italy and New York, contemporary art and furniture, detailed architecture and high design. Both architect, Natalia Enze, and client, a 30-something immersed in the financial and film sectors, hail from Milan. Conceived as a second home for the client, Enze created the open loftlike environment that’s associated with downtown living. An L-shape expanse contains the conjoined living, kitchen, and dining areas. Private quarters are similarly contiguous: Adjoining the bedroom, the bathroom and walk-in closet merge as a chic and spacious dressing area. Between rooms, Enze formed arched porticoes to suggest divisions without disrupting spatial flow, yet unified spaces via tinted pale oak millwork and flooring. Furnishings are stunners of both Italian and non-Italian origin: Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni’s Arco lamp, a triangular chandelier by Alberto and Paolo Sala and Federico Ferrari, Pierre Paulin’s curving turquoise sofa, striped lounge chairs by Kurt Merki Jr., an enormous portrait by Egor Ostrov. In the bedroom, Enze commissioned a wall sculpture in mahogany, oak, and marble, Carrara of course.