An Entirely Wood-Paneled Condo in Greenwich Village
Standard wooden paneling powering the residing-area sofa is flanked by personalized-louvered doors and maple, which handles practically just about every floor in the two-bedroom apartment.
Photograph: Allyson Lubow for The Corcoran Team
When the Village Home Condominium opened on 13th Avenue in 1967, its flats had been normal of the era: clean up white walls, very simple parquet flooring. But Sonja Alaimo, now 94, experienced a distinct eyesight for her two-bed room on the eighth flooring. Alaimo, who moved there in 1968, was an artist — far more specially, an newbie surrealist painter, born in Yugoslavia, who mingled with Salvador Dalí. In excess of the many years, Alaimo included pretty much every single solitary floor in the condominium with wood paneling, even the home windows, which can be concealed guiding louvered picket doorways.
Grooved wooden strains just one wall of a residing area and hides a strip of recessed lights managed by a dimmer change. The opposite wall is laminated in apricot-coloured maple mounted in the 1990s that covers the entirety of the foyer, eating area, and kitchen area and even (someway) stretches around a curved bar tucked to the correct of the entrance. “You can place booze powering there when you’re entertaining. The condominium is pretty Mad Men in that way,” mentioned Fred Cargian, the Corcoran agent representing the vendor who was charmed by a different relic of a primmer, bygone period: a dressing place. “If someone’s sitting in your bed room, you can modify your apparel and you don’t have to interrupt your dialogue.”
Wood louvered doors and maple paneling warm up this Greenwich Village condominium. Allyson Lubow for The Corcoran Group, Allyson Lubow for The Corcoran Group/Allyson Lubow
The condominium arrives with all of the furnishings, such as a number of mid-century-present day armchairs, a (perhaps phony) Noguchi coffee desk, and a very low-slung, pink-upholstered sectional sofa — though Cargian is not certain no matter if all the artwork and tchotchkes are included. Some of the paintings are by Alaimo herself, such as the dwelling-place showpiece: a Daliesque canvas that depicts a participating in card trapped upright in a sand dune.
Cargian expects that some customers will want to strip the location down and do a complete renovation, turning the dressing place into a wander-in closet and tearing down the paneling. “I personally like it,” Cargian said. “But I’m 62.”