Andre Mellone is known for designing elegantly understated, texturally rich interiors, including apartments in New York and London, and retail stores for Thom Browne and Jason Wu. Andre Mellone’s attraction to 20th-century modernist furnishings was nurtured by his father, a noted industrial designer, and Mellone sees rooms as “simple geometric forms arranged in ways that make sense to me.”

Andre Mellone designed this apartment for a family couple in Brooklyn, New York. Under a piece by the fiber artist Françoise Grossen, a Mellone-designed bookcase holds copies of National Geographic. The tripod sculpture at left is by William Kentridge. “The art was my contribution” to the apartment, the wife explains.

The apartment is filled with modernist design. At the apartment’s entry, a wood console designed by Mellone stands next to a Pierre Jeanneret chair and a rug by Marion Dorn. In the living room, Mellone established a “center” with a grouping of three cubelike 1960s armchairs (and a solid component) by Bernard Govin. 

On the far side of a large structural column that is wrapped in a vintage French pine screen, the dining area has a Pierre Chapo table and Jeanneret chairs. Mellone installed Venetian blinds to disguise the fact that the windows don’t go all the way to the ceiling. Works by contemporary artists including William Kentridge and Françoise Grossen are part of a diverse collection assembled by the wife.