It's the mark of tremendous talent that the first thing you notice upon entering Robert Stilin's new Brooklyn apartment isn't the view. Beyond the enormous windows, a cruise ship may be docking in the nearby terminal, a ferry crisscrossing the water, or a sunset streaking the sky.
"Something's always going on in the harbor," says the AD100 designer, who likens the maritime panorama to an Andreas Gursky photograph. Still, before that vista can rightly command your attention, your eyes will first flitter among the many wonders inside-from the handsome vignettes of vintage and bespoke furnishings that fill every corner of the home to the eclectic artworks that cover the walls in dense, salon-style arrangements. Here are interiors that embrace but do not yield to the extraordinary scenery.
Stilin first visited the unit three years ago at the suggestion of a friend who was buying in the building, a 1910 warehouse in Red Hook that had recently been converted into condominiums.
After 14 years living in a cozy SoHo two-bedroom (AD, 2019), the designer was ready for a change. "I wanted more space, to live a bit more graciously," he says. One step into the apartment and there was no resisting its scale and sweep: some 3,600 raw square feet, with those broad 13-foot-tall windows on two sides and a U-shaped layout primed for neatly divided public and private realms.
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SEA CHANGE
Trading Manhattan for Brooklyn, designer Robert Stilin soaks up new scenery indoors and out
HELLA, YES
Thirty years into her career, Dutch design star Hella Jongerius proves the best ideas-and objects are those that grow and transform along with us
GREEN GODDESS
From her perch in Lloyd Wright's 1927 home and studio in West Hollywood, Vicki von Holzhausen is spreading the gospel-and refining the science—of eco-friendly, plant-based materials
BOTH SIDES NOW
Celebrated for his fantastical, genderfluid fashions, designer Harris Reed brings the same rule-flouting approach to a petite London apartment
shades of eden
In her magical LA garden, artist Mimi Lauter contemplates the cycle of life and the rapturous power of color
CHARM SCHOOL
In the hands of Ashe Leandro, a historic New York City house gets a delightful makeover
mother nature
Taking inspiration from her own childhood memories, Jennifer Garner crafts a cozy California home and garden where she and her family can put down roots
Finnish Lines
Resurfaced by Hem, a postmodern Nordic icon is back on the shelves
Changed for Good
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Earth Tone
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