At One Manhattan Square, AD100 designer Jamie Bush debuts his first East Coast residential project—a model unit for the 80-story tower on New York's Lower East Side. In addition to decorating with a mix of vintage and contemporary pieces, Bush designed several custom works (like the Vladimir Kagan–style sofa pictured here) to juxtapose solid volumes and linework, and highlight the apartment's stunning views.

An antique side chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh sits in the entry hall."The developer looked to us for a California modern take on an interior in New York," says the designer. The sky-high unit presented a particularly New York–geared design challenge, which Bush approached through careful space planning. Standing in the corner of the open plan living-dining room in this triple-exposure apartment, one has an unprecedented view. 

In all spaces,aside from the entry, master suite, and powder room—an eight-foot-high datum runs across the walls, and is marked by a trim piece painted to match the wall coverings beneath. This architectural trick not only mitigates the ceiling height difference between the entry and the rest of the home, but also brings a level of comfort to the taller spaces. In the living area, where the first sweep of city is seen through a large window, the datum extends across linen curtains to form a color block, in the same blush tone as the woven Donghia wallpaper.

The guest bedroom is wrapped in a mural wallpaper by Black Crow Studios. A Vico Magistretti lamp sits on a custom burl wood nightstand from Lawson-Fenning.The living area is especially masterful. Here, the curves of a custom Vladimir Kagan–style sofa covered in a rust-colored mohair velvet by Pierre Frey are matched by two round cocktail tables on pilotis by Ten10. A pair of vintage chrome side tables, ebonized ash side tables by Casey Johnson, and a colored-glass room screen by Arflex add a hint of luster. A bespoke plush slipper chair in a blue linen weave stands in contrast to a 1972 Hoop chair by Piero Palange and Werther Toffoloni, which reads like a line drawing against its East River backdrop.

The master suite got a special treatment, functioning as the apartment's cocoon of calmness. As the only rooms without a datum, the design forgoes the playful pops of bright color found in the children's and guest bedrooms, instead featuring soothing gray walls hung with five wall sculptures by Peter Lane. Located on the northwest corner of the building, the room almost seems to float over Manhattan, with the bed by Vico Magistretti for Flou oriented as such. 

Pops of yellow add whimsy to the children's bedroom, where the bunk bed is by Casa Kids and the desk and shelves are custom by Bush."If the legendary decorator Michael Taylor was the father of the 'California look,' then Bush might justifiably be described as a progenitor of the New California look," wrote AD in 2018 when the designer first became an AD100 honoree. His designs' emphasis on geometry, texture, and history certainly prove that to be true—but in this new project, Bush makes clear that the style is relevant far beyond the Golden State.