SARTORIAL FLAIR

Aged leather, faded rugs and iconic designs give this fashion executive’s New York home unique charisma

- JULIET BENNING

Having lived in London for five years, Joshua Schulman’s previous home of New York beckoned him back with a new job opportunity and the chance to reunite with his partner, now husband, Jim Conley. ‘Jim had been living in my old apartment, so with my return we decided to start looking for a home we could share together,’ says Joshua, who is a long-term fashion and retail executive while Jim works as a marketing executive at Twitter.

‘Like any hunt for property in Manhattan, we had our ups and downs, but as soon as we walked into this house we knew we had found the right one,’ Joshua says of their period townhouse near Gramercy Park, an area known for its brownstone properties and tree-lined streets. ‘The building had started life as a family home that had then been converted into several flats. But fortunately the previous owners had done a good job of reintegrating it into a single house.’