A 1925 Greenwich Village Art Deco Apartment Is Reimagined as a Warm Bo

The 1925 Art Deco apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village serves as a city home for a California-based couple. The husband works in film and television, while the wife is an artist. As they approached retirement, they wanted the apartment to accommodate gatherings with family while also offering a private setting for everyday life and art, with the comfort and quiet order of a boutique hotel.

The apartment’s original palette of white and grey was clean and well preserved, but lacked warmth. Designer Sarah Henley retained architectural details such as the plaster ceiling mouldings and tall windows, drawing green, warm gold and russet tones from the streetscape of Greenwich Village to establish a cohesive palette throughout the home. Alpaca, mohair and walnut add further layers of tactility, bringing a softer contemporary character to the historic architecture.

The lofty living room risked feeling overly expansive, so layers of textiles, carefully scaled handcrafted furnishings and the arched window surrounds were used to temper the volume. A compact room between the entrance and kitchen serves several purposes, combining a living area, dining space and guest room through a custom sofa bed and an extendable dining table. Its deeper tones create a quieter, more enveloping atmosphere. In the primary bedroom, amber silk wallcovering wraps the room, marking a gradual transition from the openness of the public areas to a more intimate place for rest as daylight shifts throughout the day.

At the entrance, a custom Sawkille sideboard, detailed with shell inlay and hand carving, becomes one of the home’s defining furniture pieces, while traces of the owners’ everyday lives emerge in details such as reading and knitting. The art collection follows the couple’s personal interests, and even the kitchen includes a dedicated feeding station for their dog. Here, period architecture, art and the rituals of daily life are woven together to create a distinctly personal urban retreat for two creative lives.

In the reimagined 1925 Greenwich Village apartment, where Sarah Henley layers alpaca, mohair, and walnut to soften the Art Deco architecture into a warm, boutique-hotel-inspired retreat, textiles become essential to tempering the lofty living room and bridging the couple’s creative, everyday rituals. The Domvitus Rastatt Double-Sided Floral Pillow Cover—a Vintage Botanical Decorative Cushion Cover for Elegant Home Decor—finds its place naturally among the russet and warm gold tones drawn from the streetscape, its intricate flora echoing the handcrafted detail of the custom Sawkille sideboard while adding a tactile, garden-soft counterpoint to the room’s plaster mouldings and tall arched windows. Whether arranged on the handcrafted sofa to anchor an intimate family gathering or tucked into a reading nook where daylight shifts across amber silk, this Double-Sided Floral Pillow Cover brings an enduring botanical elegance that honors both the apartment’s historic spirit and the quiet, artful comfort of a life well-lived.