BEAUTY: Interior--Yabu Pushelberg

Design team (and life partners for 31 years!) George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg have designed award-winning restaurants and retail spaces as well as private residences for clients across the continent, but perhaps their most spectacular creation is their own home. Located in a Richard Meier-designed tower on Perry Street in Manhattan, it is 4,000 square feet of organic minimalist sumptuousness. Their spaces are full--or empty, depending on which way you look at things--of strange, unexpected textures and shapes, many of them unfamiliar as furniture or furnishings. Even though the space has a lot of natural materials like wood and warm metals, it has the feeling of some sort of science fiction fantasy interior, as though we are seeing the living space of an alien race who have objects and rooms whose uses we cannot begin to fathom; just look at the biomorphic cast-bronze tripod chair with what appears to be moth wings. The art selection helps that along as well with things like the glass ball deer head by Japanese artist Kohei Nawa.
They even manage to make the thick cement pillars seem part of their grand scheme and vision.


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