If there’s one factor Brittany Albert believes to be true, it’s the quiet energy of manifestation. In spite of everything, there’s nothing else that might clarify how her Brooklyn condo—the parlor ground of a brownstone—got here to be, and the way the celebrities aligned, if solely momentarily, when the earlier tenants moved out. “We had been renting an condo just a few flooring above in the identical constructing, and had seen this unit with its outside area and delightful bay home windows. When it grew to become obtainable, we jumped on the probability,” says the New York–based mostly inside stylist, referring to herself, her husband, Sanders Witkow, and their golden retriever, Kona. The choice wasn’t a tough one: The parlor ground was spacious and filled with potential, with excessive ceilings, beneficiant gentle, and good bones. What it lacked, nonetheless, was character. “It had zero character,” Albert recollects. “But it surely was type of excellent—a clear slate to make into our dwelling.”
Albert might need tackled the complete undertaking herself if not for one key element: The structure wanted a rethink. The plan was to make the condo each a house and a workspace—half calm, half characterful, a stability between her minimalist sensibility and her love of layers. So, cause (and Instagram) led her to AD PRO Listing inside designer Augusta Hoffman, whose work she had admired for years and who she felt can be the right inventive collaborator. Hoffman would deal with the design, whereas Albert would concentrate on bringing the house to life in a method that displays her eager eye for objects and artwork, and the signature calm she brings to her styling work. The pair collaborated with Renovation Companions for the execution.
Anybody who has visited Albert will let you know that should you picked up her condo and dropped it someplace in Paris, the home (and Albert) would really feel proper at dwelling—at the least on the within. “I feel the distinctive gentle and openness of the area actually guided the design,” says Albert of the European-inspired interiors, framed by home windows on three sides and bathed in a smooth, dreamlike glow. To Hoffman—the founder and principal of her eponymous New York studio—the sunshine wasn’t simply illumination, it was a fabric in itself. “We wished to make use of it as one among our textures,” she says, “to create one thing calm, layered, and heat.”
