Clutch those pearls Tasteful Friends and remember it overlooks the Park

Call me nuts, I kinda like it.

Paint it white and start again.

I'm sure the owners loved it. But I would become almost instantly psychotic upon entering that room. Perhaps permanently

Same, r3. I would lose my sanity if I lived there.

Hated it!!!...

Could be fantastic, but most every wall effect is garish to say the least. Grotesquely over decorated. I'm always amazed to see work by well known interior designers who clearly have no idea when to stop.

Certainly can be swayed by the opinions of other TFs, so here I'll make a point of registering my own opinion, without having read replies upthread (yet).

Not only does this feel like someone's home (rather than just a curated photo opportunity), I think it could be an inspiring place to live. Wonder how it comes across after dark.

Are the walls lacquered? How are they so reflective? That would drive me nuts. It's a nice apartment in desperate need of a repainting. I don't mind the walls in the dining area, but the rest of it is just garish. Still, that wouldn't stop me from buying it if I had the money. Walls can be easily repainted.

This is easily the one of the ugliest decorated homes I’ve ever seen on this website. I wonder how much it costs to clean up this toxic dump. Although it might be fun to donate all the furniture piece by piece to various charities.

it looks like the interior of a dollhouse

Yikes, someone didn't know when to stop. That is textbook overdesigned, starts off with a nice thought but taken to the point of absurdity.

The shiny walls may help it look more open...without all that crap...but in a neutral.

Isn't Lorber a famous NYC power gay?

I like it and I usually prefer white and gray. Only things I'd change right away is the black/white striped "entry hall."

The living room and dining room contain too much furniture, e.g., that china cabinet/book storage case in the living room.

Love the dark blue bedroom.

Time to call Roger Hazard and Tanya Meme.

Yes, because that is the most restrained room r14.

It's Michael Lorber's listing, of Million Dollar Listing New York

It looks like Walt Disney threw up all over it.

The inspiration seems to be how flyover mother's decorated their son's rooms in the 70's. Navy wals with pops of red and white. "Trash nautical"

The apartment is meh for a luxury apartment. Not a lot of light, low ceilings, small rooms. What he did with it is very 60s luxury influence. I love the enameled walls, bravo. I would keep the walls but put in more calming monochromatic 50s to 70s lux pieces. Maybe some Dorothy Draper. Its all TOO gay, though.

Nick Olsen was a protege of Miles Redd, and the aesthetic is definitely maximalist. I appreciate a lot of it, but I understand how it's not gonna be gotten by the flyover set. The purple kitchen is pretty wonderful, though some of the blues just don't do it for me. I'd rather see this any day than the current HGTV snoozefests of design. The place takes risks, has a sense of humor and doesn't take itself too seriously.

[quote] Isn't Lorber a famous NYC power gay?

Excuse me. I believe you're thinking about ME!!

It's the kind of place I'd like for my best friend to own. It'd be a great space to regularly drop in, enjoy and then return home.

Ghastly. Gut it and start over.

Ghastly. Gut it and start over.

It's not my style, but they have some expensive art in there

[quote]I appreciate a lot of it, but I understand how it's not gonna be gotten by the flyover set.

If this apartment were in flyoverland, you'd be the first one to call it tasteless.

By 1941, the style isn't referred to as Art Deco, but Streamline Moderne.

Miles Redd is a protege of BUNNY WILLIAMS (and Oscar de la Renta as mentor too). Redd did a Mayfair townhouse for a friend. Wonderful. Tented room, great color. I lost my cherry in an apartment decorated by Bunny when she was still at Parish-Hadley. He was a latin banker and the whole set up made my young sphincter quiver. That, and the champagne.

I don’t mind over the top interiors, but this is just ugly. The living room rug looks like it came from pottery barn, and it’s too big. It’s UNDER the oversized Chippendale china cabinet-type piece. A slightly narrower, more traditionally colored oriental rug with red and sapphire blue a shade darker that the walls might have looked good. I do like the walls, I’m a sucker for lacquer. Don’t think they could get that much shine from high gloss paint.

I like chinoiserie paper, but the metallic background makes the dining room look like a 1970’s bathroom. And they have a dining room, but it only seats four?

The black and white foyer walls look like cheapo wall paper intended to create a black stone with white mortar effect. Like they had to choose between fake King Arthur castle wallpaper or the log cabin wallpaper.

The kitchen looks so cluttered. And are those purple blinds that match the shiny cabinets? They couldn’t have done a Roman shade in a nice coordinating fabric? There wasn’t enough shiny purple already?

And don’t even get me started on above the range microwaves. I realize some NYC apartment kitchen are simply too small for anything else, but housewives in Ohio would turn their noses up at that.

I hate it. I hate it so much, it’s existence angers me. This guy is a real estate agent? How could anyone even trust his opinion? And he PAID someone to decorate it? Good grief.

It’s fucking awful. Just awful.

It reminds me a lot of Carrie Fisher's house.

If the apartment were in flyoverland. I'd be impressed with just how wacky some queen made it. There's a lot to be said for bucking convention and taking risks. Apparently, something R27 doesn't seem to get.

Expensive art? looks like prints. The Basquiat is 1 of 85. Here.

It's a fun apartment, slightly campy. Love the lacquer walls, the purple more so than the blue.

Jesus Christ, it's exhausting!

Those blue lacquered walls are a worse idea than Marion Strong's Chinese Modern redecoration!

This is an Emperor’s New Clothes situation. It CAN’T be that bad, so it must be good.

r32 see r36

This is what most people want nowadays.

Ew, all I think about is terrorist planes, concrete jungle and walking 4 blocks to pay four dollars for an apple.

The fact that they worship that little patch of grass tells you all you need to know.

Well, you certainly have a remarkable understanding of NYC, r39!

You're a regular Peter Stuyvesant!

LOVE THIS! Over the top, but you can tell that was the intention. Kinda reminds me of the background design of Will and Grace in the early 2000s. Layers upon layers upon layers. I believe in one episode Will's mom had chairs hanging on the walls like artwork. I wouldn't do it, but I like how it keeps your attention. This is over the top., yet still a home in which I could relax.

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R27 is correct. Some arrogant New Yorkers just can't get off their pedestal.

This decor would NEVER EVER appear in flyoverstan. Possibly San Francisco. That's it!

Go blow it out your ass, R43. I don't even live in NY.

I like it. Its far more interesting than what is currently in style at the moment. Then again I like the Dorothy Draper look.

Wether its your taste or not,you cant dispute that its got tons of personality . In a world full of greige its a feast to the eyes !

I feel nauseous. This could be the worst decor that I've ever seen posted on DL. The folding glass doors are the only things I'd keep. Scrap the rest.

How much did he pay for the Interior Designer to do that? The furniture is too big for the room, makes it look even smaller.

Isn't there a saying about "You have to be extremely rich to have taste that bad"?

Milles Redd, of course he's impossible to get; he works all the time.

Miles Redd is from Atlanta! Well that explains everything!

I'd like to push him into the bougainvilleas; wipe that grin off his face.

*LOL*

That photo of Miles Redd SCREAMS bottom.

Oh Miss. Ghurl! That voice!

It’s rather tiny, and isn’t the park view to the west on Fifth?

Listing is from 2017 and apartment has been sold (according to listing seen elsewhere). Thus it is safe to assume much if not all of original decor seen above was long since removed or done over.

I would take everything out, paint the walls in calming and spacious shades of sand/taupe, work with light wood furniture and stern black picture frames.

Splashes of colour can come in the form of pillows, paintings, and quirky little objects.

Also, the living room would feature a sofa, and a chair. If I have more people over, I’ll simply bring out some of the dining chairs.

You have to furnish for the space that you have.

[quote]lacquered purple cabinetry

Dear God.

White or blond brick building? Never.

I don't like the floorplan with the long range of three public rooms with only some small windows tucked begrudging and asymmetrically at one narrow end.

The poor plan and the low ceilings are dealbreakers for me.

Miles Redd has done some good work, and some kitschy work. The blue lacquered room might be nice in the flesh. The painted quoining treatment in the entry hall and the badly proportioned finish carpentry and the half-assed Chinoiserie in the dark as pitch dining room nook are easily undone. Likewise the bedroom, supposed to have conveyed some smart and Saville Row or Scottish tartan but more Short Hills Mall Ralph Lauren, 1992.

For $4.2M there are much better choices.

It would be interesting to see some examples of over the top design (lacquered walls and ceilings, multiple patterns, layered rugs, bright colors, chinoiserie walls, velvets and mohair silks, big pleated drapes, lots of pillows, overstuffed upholstered prices, furniture with different finishes, metallics, etc.) that people think DO work, for contrast.

Lately, I don’t love oriental rugs. They are too far from what’s mainstream popular and I’ve seen too many bad machine-made versions. I still like the look of an almost wall to wall seagrass rug (Possibly with smaller, area-defining orientals on top), but I feel like it’s too 2003 in the south (although I’ve lived in the south and an “average” home there is better maintained and better decorated by FAR than the average NYC suburban home or even NYC apartment. I’m thinking of moving in the next year and when I look at real estate porn on StreetEasy I noticed that 80% of the time you need to go well over $1 million for a 1 bedroom and usually $2 million for a modest 2 bedroom before the interiors stop looking like dorm rooms. I’m not talking about old kitchens or baths, I’m talking about really bad aesthetic choices that also impair functionality and would cost < $50k to fix (in 7-figure homes with over $2k monthly in carrying costs).

Well, they certainly weren't afraid of color, were they? It's a pity. There's some great art there, but the fussy pretentiousness of the interior design just ruins each and every piece.

There’s no window at all in the dining room. It’s really a dining niche decorated like a palace banquet hall, not a dining room. And you have to go around the dining table and through the camouflaged dining room door to get to the kitchen and then through the kitchen to get to the 3rd bedroom, which is really just a decent-sized maid’s room.

I think they should have figured out a way to combine the hall and dining area into a generously sized dining foyer with a single coherent scheme.

Shit, didn’t see the floor plan. Extremely impractical. Cramming three bedrooms in what should really be a 1,5 bedroom type of apartment.

I would make one living/dining room out of the living/master bedroom, turn the smallest bedroom into a full-fledged bathroom, and the second bedroom would act as my study/guest bedroom

You can see Nick Olsen here.

What are his qualifications? Did he major in interior design? He is terrible! I can do better than that!

"Bursting with Color" i.e., the owner won't declutter or repaint.

Really it's awful and I'm not surprised the decorator is a pretentious queen from Atlanta. You can use bold colors w/o making burning out someone's retinas.

[quote] There’s no window at all in the dining room. It’s really a dining niche[.] I think they should have figured out a way to combine the hall and dining area into a generously sized dining foyer[.] [T]he 3rd bedroom ... is really just a decent-sized maid’s room.

The living room is long enough to fit a dining table. (Right now, the living room is crammed with too much furniture, but it could fit a dining table.) I'd repurpose the dining room into something else. That 3rd bedroom was a servant's room, I think. Its door leads to the kitchen.

At least he tried.... Makes it harder to sell, but interesting and different. Reflective walls are not for me.

it is not interesting. The furniture doesn't even fit the room! it's a fucking disaster!

Well, I for one think it's lovely!

Blue is the one color I cant stand for decor

I agree - and so many people are painting exteriors blue now. It’s not a natural color. I find it irritating,

"Wether its your taste or not,you cant dispute that its got tons of personality . In a world full of greige its a feast to the eyes !"

Oh, dear, R47.

[quote] It’s not a natural color

FOAD

R68

Place sold some time ago; so obviously someone looked beyond as then pictured decor.

Most buying into pre-war UES , UWS or elsewhere in Manhattan buildings aren't focusing on current decor because the place usually is going to be redone anyway. Besides price and location likely main obvious concern are the bones of a place, that is does it have potential beyond whatever current/previous owner's decor.

As discussed previously those seeking to buy in these buildings must have proven ready cash assets far in excess of purchase price. After plonking down $4 million, spending another one or so for redecorating wouldn't be out of place.

Until it shut down and moved to much smaller space, UWS Housing Works was beneficiary of many a "Lenox Hill" redecorating cast offs, a good amount new or gently used. This largely was due in part to the power gay decorator mafia of NYC who did their bit for the cause by sending things Housing Work's way. Entire suites of furniture surplus to requirements would be donated, including things no longer needed after being used to stage a listing.

As for that dark blue bedroom, why fight fact a room doesn't get much natural sunlight. You can do yellow, beige, or whatever all you want, but that side street facing room likely is dark a good part of daytime anyway. This I believe is an old French interior decorating trick, it comes in handy when dealing with all those top floor apartments (and others) in Baron Haussmann buildings that receive little natural light.

Does it come with an "Off" switch?

Overall, I like the bold use of color. I'm not too fond of some of the wallpaper, and I'd need to severely edit the furnishings (I don't like clutter). And I like blue. My living room is Tiffany Blue.

Actually it doesn't "overlook the park". If the schematic and compass is correct, it's on the back side (or middle) of the building, not 5th, and the windows in the LR and MBR face north, into the buildings across the side street. The Kit. and Maid's room face south, into the buildings across the other side street.

the only views of the park would be oblique ones from these north and south facing windows.

4.8 million for essentially a starter apartment.

For Lenox Hill area of UES on Fifth Avenue, yes that is about right...

That or a small pied-a-terre or perhaps apartment for an unmarried young man or woman. Not everyone needs or wants a Classic Six or Seven apartment.

This or maybe for a retired person or couple who wanted something after downsizing from a larger apartment or even home.

It feels like a funhouse, with every room needing its own personality and thing going on. The living room comes off as much more patriotic than I am so it would never work as is. I too liked the blue bedroom mentioned upthread!

Oh and I like a modern minimalist aesthetic but I hate the room in R38, except for the windows and the grey pillows.

When you try to make everything special, nothing is special.

It would look less ridiculous with less "stuff".

According to StreetEasy it sold for $4.2. Maintenance was $4,400 then. 2D was last listed for $2.35 and is currently under contract. Nicely decorated, but kitchen and baths were dated (By multi million dollar two bedroom apartment standards). 7D was listed last year for 3.35, but does not appear to have sold. Unattractive furniture, but pretty current kitchen and baths. Maintenance was given as $3,300. Not sure how accurate StreetEasy maintenance figures are. Second floor apartments are a little undesirable, but a 30% premium to go from the 7th to 15th floor seems like a lot, given that Central Park views don’t suddenly open up. 2D and 7D have the same layouts, except for pretty minor tweaks.

Short story: looks like somebody paid a premium for the finishes and condition. I like shiny, and if you took all the furniture out and repapered the entry hall it might look a lot better. But $4.2 seems like a lot.

[quote]When you try to make everything special, nothing is special.

"A Chorus Line"

Isn’t that special...

I accidentally "ff'd" you, R50, apologies. I wanted to agree. This decor just gives me a headache...awful. I agree with your ideas, R57!

So hideous it literally hurts my eyes. The rooms are really small too. He can keep it. I wouldn't want to live there for free.

Now you too can live in a Chinese funerary urn!