An Elegantly DIY Williamsburg Apartment With a Vreeland-Red Wall

Taylor Angino and Kiko Sih’s place is always evolving.

- By Wendy Goodman

Living Room

Kiko Sih bought the sofa in Paris when he was living there. The playing cards were made for a Marc Jacobs event by Brian Stevenson. The Patricia Urquiola rocking chair was purchased “at the end of the Milan Furniture Fair for a steal” from a “tipsy” Urquiola herself, Sih adds. “This swivel chair is by the Bouroullec brothers. It’s the comfiest armchair in the world.”

THE HARDEST DECISION to land is the color of the wall,” says Kiko Sih of the discussions that he and his fiancé, Taylor Angino, had about decorating their second apartment together, in a building in Williamsburg that once housed sweatshops. And everything follows from there. Take the red wall: Once they settled on the color, “we realized our apartment had the spirit of a Russian dacha,” Angino says. “There was nothing but the feathered, gilded round mirror. We thought, Why not make it feel even more like a dacha? Let’s cover it with plates!