Amy Lau founded her interiors firm, Amy Lau Design, in 2001. She also currently serves as an independent adviser to collectors of 20th Century decorative arts.Amy recently added fashion retail design to her resume with the completion of a flagship boutique for Elie Tahari, as published in Interior Design magazine. Amy and Amy Lau Design have also been featured in publications such as Elle Décor, the New York Times, House & Garden, Traditional Home, and New York Spaces. This is Downtown Apartment, Amy Lau’s portfolio.

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Tony Ingrao is a designer based in New York and has an incredible range of style – from classic to modern. He is known to have a Versace-like flair for drama and luxury. He has a passion for antiques and opened an exclusive high-end art and antiques gallery in Manhatten.

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Bilyana Dimitrova started working as a photography assistant for Peter Aaron, David Sundberg and Jeff Goldberg, of Esto Photographics, Inc, as well as for Scott Frances, Michael Moran and Paul Warchol. Currently residing in the New York Metropolitan area, Bilyana receives commissions as an architectural photographer and is the photo editor for Metropolis magazine. Her schedule at the magazine is such that it allows her to continue her active career as a photographer. This is some Bilyana’s work

Andes House, NY by Dean Marchetto and Associates

Topsfield Residence, MA by Basil Walter Architects

Karim Rashid Residence, NYC by Karin Rashid

Vik Muniz Residence, NYC by Basil Walter Architects

Campus Center, Smith College by Weiss/Manfredi Architects

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Ron Marvin has been in the creative industries for over 12 years. Working with such companies, as Gap, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, West Elm. His New York home will be featured on the HGTV show “Small Space Big Style” and he is joining the show as an on-air expert. This is apartment in New York that interior design by Ron Marvin.

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Robert and Cortney Novogratz could pass for poster-perfect suburban parents: They have six preteen kids they shuttle to school every day, log miles on a basement rec-room treadmill, and eat dinner with their brood at a modern refectory table adjacent to a back porch. For fun, they shoot hoops on their basketball court. But they’re the last people you’d expect behind the -wheel of a minivan.

Robert, AA, is an ex—Wall Street sales guy who answers the door in a trucker cap, wrists dangling with string bracelets, and Cortney, 35, an almond-eyed former ac- tress, retains hints of a Southern drawl that belies a wholly urbane acumen. That basketball court? It’s on the roof of their four-story townhouse, the former gun-room annex of the circa 1905 New York City Police Headquarters, which sits across the street, and whose Renaissance Revival cupola looms above center court.

Such drastic measures aren’t foreign to the couple. They are the principals of Sixx Design, boutique developers who buy small, derelict city properties the big guys overlook and turn them into gracious single-family dwellings. The rebuilt face of this building—thanks to new windows in mahogany casements and light-as-air glass balconies —-would now feel right at home tucked into some Roman side street, and that same cosmopolitan flair doesn’t stop at the front door.

After they cleared the decks, the Novogratzes fashioned a lofty, flexible space that stylishly accommodates sticky fingers as well as discriminating adult tastes. It was a process that incorporated major art, vintage objects, and designer textiles irreverently. The walls and ceilings are Venetian plaster, buffed to a lacquered sheen. Penetrol, a paint additive, was incorporated into the mixture to create the finish and make it easy to clean. “Smudges just wipe right off,” says Cortney. In the first-level kitchen-cum-living-and-dining room, Botri cabinetry is illuminated by 1950s lights from a Monte Carlo casino. The Cappellini sofa is a slip covered model: “We always buy sofas that you can re-buy the slipcovers for,” says Bob. The bedrooms above are furnished in textiles that are rich, graphically. “Patterns lose a lot of stains,” says Cortney, whose master suite is modern with a soft edge, thanks to a Manuel Canovas fabric on curtains and a footboard, and a fluffy hanging light from Moss above the bed.

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The concept for The Kirketon Dining Room & Bar in Sydney is based in the great restaurants and bars of Europe and America built in an era of style comfort and quality. Key priority was to encapsulate the style of Paris and the comfort of New York and yet still incorporating the edgy style of contemporary Sydney restaurant design.

Rigorous functional requirements and intense design collaboration with the client, James Ingram, dictated generous egress for wait staff, soft ambient lighting and the maximising of seating capabilities to match licensing. The kitchen also required upgrading to match the newly expanded seating layout as well as providingroom service to the Hotel guests.

The colour palette is restrained and used in a predominantly structural manner to define areas. Cladding finishes – predominantly black stained American Walnut panelling with brass trim, brass cladding treated with a bronze patina and finely sanded stucco plaster finish polished with bees wax define the palette. The ceiling was repainted in Dulux Deep Onyx to recede and take emphasis away from the relatively low ceiling height.…Unfortunately, This restaurant has closed on 12 February 2007

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