The stunning minimalist modern home you’re about to see was featured in Architectural Digest’s November/December 1976 issue as a New York City home D’Urso had reinvented as an exemplar of High Tech design. This extreme minimalist–modern industrial style that had become his signature made possible to put together an Upper West Side apartment that was unlike anything ever seen or imagined at the time.
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The space located at the top of a West 67th Street Gothic-revival
In creating the apartment’s design, D’Urso used the most limited palette of colors and materials and the fewest pieces of furniture possible. He covered the floors in nearly black commercial-grade carpeting of a sort not usually associated with residential design, contrasting its dark hue and low, nubby texture with smooth high-gloss white paint.
D’Urso also removed the dropped ceiling in the dining room, opening it up to reveal two structural coves. He then used four black steel cylinders and a quartet of Formica tabletops to create a flexible modular table system that could seat up to 20 guests.
A Charles and Ray Eames lounge chair and ottoman for Herman Miller sit in the main living space, adjacent to double doors that lead to the dining room.
For the Simon home’s double-height living room D’Urso created a series of charcoal-gray carpeted platforms that served as a sofa, a daybed, and even a table. These helped define and center the space.
He furnished the space sparsely, with a few blocky, rolling black-Formica coffee tables and a couple of low-slung woven chairs set on a high carpeted platform. That plinth was one of several he created to break up and define various sections of the room, using one as a sofa, another as a daybed, and one even as a table.
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