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Hugh Leslie

New York Townhouse

This is early-twentieth-century town house in Manhattan designed by Hugh Leslie, who was also responsible for the clients’ previous home in London. After 11 years in their Victorian villa in Notting Hill (featured in House & Garden in May 2012), the owners relocated to New York with their three school-age children – but took a little of their old home with them. ‘I loved the house Hugh did for us so much, I wasn’t happy to leave at all,’ the owner explains wistfully. The solution was to have the designer bring some aspects of their London home to their Manhattan town house.

To set the tone for their New York incarnation, the couple asked Hugh to replicate the tricolour mosaic floor that had been in their London hallway – a bold, three-dimensional riff on a floor design at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles. Made in India, it uses three kinds of stone: turquoise marble, white marble and dark green porphyry. It leads into the kitchen and family room. ‘Our kitchen and family room in London was unbeatable – this house is much darker and we couldn’t extend the ground floor due to the limited rear garden space,’ says the owner.

To bring some vigour to the space, Hugh had the kitchen cabinetry custom-made in the style of a colour-blocked Mondrian tableau. ‘We wanted to make it fun and lively, joyful and inviting. It’s fantastic to design sitting rooms, but we all know the kitchen is where everyone ends up hanging out,’ Hugh says. A new vivid blue sofa and a painting brought from London respond to the brightly coloured panels of the cabinetry.

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