In Manhattan, Maria McManus’s home strikes the perfect work-life balance.
She slides open a cabinet door, revealing shelves teeming with crystal glass, Astier de Villatte and porcelain espresso cups. Every morning the family gather here for breakfast – or some semblance of it, McManus says, meaning a gulp offor her. But they eat together each night at the dinner table, an elongated oval of bleached maple with bronze legs by BDDW, surrounded by 1959 Niels Otto Moller rosewood dining chairs. A pendant light by Edward Wormley is suspended above.
A truly beautiful home can often be distinguished by its details. McManus’s bathroom is case in point: a dark jewel box with a custom belvedere marble sink and a ’60s Murano glass sconce by JT Kalmar. “I’m a 1stDibs addict,” she deadpans. In the bathroom, charcoal-coloured plaster walls offset the white-oak parquet floors, which run throughout the apartment.A curved doorway leads into the impressive walk-in closet . “I love Le Corbusier,” she says. “I wanted to do the whole hallway with a curved ceiling but it was too expensive.
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