This Is thé Remix

Augusta Hoffman builds on good bones to create an idyllic Manhattan apartment for her most intimidating clients: herself and her husband.

-  Catherine Hong

Any decorator can slap on a scenic wallpaper and call it a day. But when it came to designing her "first grown-up apartment," New York City interior designer Augusta Hoffman wanted something that would be unique. She reached out to James Mobley, a decorative artist in Los Angeles with whom she had never worked, and told him her vision. "I shared my dream of covering the walls in a grisaille scenic mural," she says. The result is one of the most unexpectedly romantic eat-in kitchens south of 14th Street, a moody and atmospheric space combining olive-green cabinetry, Mobley's ethereal Hudson River Valley-inspired landscape, and spherical alabaster pendants that evoke a pair of full moons.