New York, NY

The New York School of Interior Design was housed in an urban turn-of-the-century horse stable that had been transformed first into a K-12 girls’ school before being recreated as an Interior Design School. The School acquired an adjacent brownstone for a much-needed expansion of administrative offices. The firm was responsible for the restoration and expansion of the School located in a Landmark District and provided programming services to the new gallery spaces. Programmatic elements include connection and renovation of the two structures; transformation of the old high-ceiling gymnasium into the new library; expansion to the third and fourth floors of the brownstone and construction of a new fifth-floor daylit studio.

Interiors transformed include a limestone floor entry foyer and gallery, a connecting stair, accessible routes throughout both buildings and sunny studio and classroom spaces. A renovation to the existing 70th Street building’s gallery spaces in the cellar provide new facilities for juries and presentations and new graduate studios were created on the floor formerly occupied by administrative offices. A cafe, library, lecture hall, and bookstore were added to the buildings’ ground floors and exposed brick walls have been refinished.

CLIENT: New York School of Interior Design
COMPLETION: 1998
SIZE: 12,520 square feet
COST: $2 million