Modern Geometry

Cool shapes and artistic influences create a stylish backdrop inside Keren and Thomas’s New York home

- Jo Leevers

‘We approached the design of this space like an exercise in geometry,’ says Keren Richter of the bold living room at the heart of her New York apartment. Shapes are perfectly balanced, so that the angles of an Yves Klein coffee table are softened by the fronded curves of a palm tree and the hard white lines of a Tobia Scarpa sofa contrast with curvaceous powder-pink chairs.

In fact, balance is the byword for Keren and Thomas’s reworked Williamsburg apartment. It’s shown in the way Art Deco meets Moorish decoration in the bathrooms, mid-century design works with modern lighting in the dining room and Brooklyn tin tiles meet space-age gold wallpaper in their daughter Mira’s bedroom. But, most of all, it’s displayed in the way the contemporary furniture sits comfortably inside such a historic frame.