During years of renovating a collection couple's spacious main West Coast mansion, San Francisco-based designer Suzanne Tucker often heard her clients wistfully imagine what a New York apartment would look like. How beautiful . Before long the call came in — the clients were in a four-bedroom apartment in a converted office tower in New York's Flatiron District, overlooking Madison Square Park.

The original heavily ribbed marble's 'original entrance corridor has been replaced by a quiet semi-calmstone inset of Belgian black marble allowing the homeowner to have an academic collection of art as the main event. . Here, works by Milton Resnick, Lee Ufan and Anish Kapoor — the latter an accidental last-minute work of art that worked perfectly on a newly installed vintage French painting — join Branching Disc lighting by Lindsey Adelman Studio and Hervé Van Der Straeten sconce by Ralph Pucci.

Other changes to the interior design, including staining the wooden floors to an ebony shadow, replacing the conventional overhead lighting with a more thoughtful lighting scheme, and painting the already white walls. with warmer vanilla tones, helped to give the space a more cozy atmosphere.
Modifying the home's color palette also helps lay the groundwork for the existing kitchen, which Suzanne Tucker decked out with a series of jewel-faced pendant lights by David Wiseman. Suzanne Tucker gave the space a moment of unexpected playfulness by wrapping ebony and brass stools in an animal-print calfskin.
Shopping for art and antiques fairs, as well as visiting dealers from New York to Paris, Suzanne Tucker and her clients have discovered some treasures that take pride in their New York apartment . Suzanne Tucker purchased a 1960s Piero Fornasetti “Architecttura” cabinet and pillow-lined ceiling fixture by Simone Crestani at Bernd Goeckler, a stool and sconce at Ralph Pucci and a nautilus-like convex mirror by Liz O 'Brien.