{"id":192156,"date":"2022-01-06T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_project&p=192156"},"modified":"2022-11-16T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:11:55","slug":"this-soho-loft-by-lee-f-mindel-is-anything-but-soulless","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/this-soho-loft-by-lee-f-mindel-is-anything-but-soulless\/","title":{"rendered":"This SoHo Loft by Lee F. Mindel is Anything But Soulless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\"SoHo<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n

January 6, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Jen Renzi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Michael Moran \/ Otto<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n

This SoHo Loft by Lee F. Mindel is Anything But Soulless<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

2021 Best of Year winner for Large Apartment <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019d never guess that, before Lee F. Mindel<\/a> came on the scene, this airy SoHo loft, home to a young art consultant, was a soulless, cookie-cutter three-bedroom in a new development. The firm<\/a> principal blasted open the 4,400-square-foot floor plan\u2014replacing Sheetrock with white-lacquered panels, white-oak partitions, and glass pocket doors\u2014to instate more gracious spatial proportions and flowier circulation. Mindel\u2019s strategy for giving grandeur to the standard-issue anodized-aluminum windows was to \u201cthicken\u201d the walls around them and darken their boxy depth in a manner reminiscent of Donald Judd sculptures. The result is akin to \u201cdioramas framing views of the neighboring cast-iron historic buildings,\u201d the Interior Design<\/em> Hall of Fame member explains. \u201cPlus, the added depth creates the illusion you\u2019re in a masonry building.\u201d Eschewing drop ceiling and downlights in favor of exposing the full volume of the space, Mindel installed luminous LED blades\u2014rectangular in the living room, circular in the dining area\u2014that lend activation overhead. \u201cThe idea,\u201d the architect notes, \u201cwas that the ceiling, with these De Stijl\u2013like overlapping graphics, become its own artistic plane.\u201d Other than the living room\u2019s Pierre Paulin sofa and the Maarten Baas dining chairs, furnishings are custom, designed by the firm to suit the newly salonlike spaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"SoHo
SoHo Loft by Lee F. Mindel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"SoHo
SoHo Loft by Lee F. Mindel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"SoHo
SoHo Loft by Lee F. Mindel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
project team<\/h6><\/div>\n\n\n\n
sheltonmindel<\/span><\/a>: Lee F. Mindel<\/span><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n