DINZ德网 | 纽约日式居所诠释静谧中的奢华

The owners, a married couple who collect contemporary art, originally wanted Sugimoto to create just a Japanese tearoom within the 8,000-square-foot apartment. They had seen one he conceived for his own studio in Manhattan, and they visited a Tokyo restaurant, Sahsya Kanetanaka, that he completed in 2013. As work progressed, they asked him to take over the entire project. In searching for a local architect, Sugimoto found Susan Yun and her associate principal Felix Ade through architect Annabelle Selldorf, for whom Yun had worked. The elaborate four-year design and construction process—executed by New York contractor Xhema—wrapped up in 2018.The apartment, which occupies an entire floor high in the concrete-frame structure, was formed from two apartments that were sold as raw space (Yun did have to change certain plumbing and mechanical components). The tower’s square floor plan, where perimeter beams and columns form the exterior structural “tube,” permitted column-free rooms to be arranged along the four walls of the building and arrayed around the structural elevator core.

As rooms unfold from the more public to private spaces, surprises await. Entering the apartment through the narrow guest hall, you first encounter the pristine tearoom. Beyond is a large dining salon, facing west and south, where a long sushi bar is separated from the dining table by a parapet-like slab of komatsu stone and two bonsai ficus trees. (There is no need to search for a neighborhood sushi place—Sugimoto located a chef for his clients.) Along the south wall are the kitchen and family room; in the latter space, a luminous, deeply coved ceiling contrasts with the flat planes hovering above other rooms, which nevertheless reach heights of about 12 feet. Private areas are located on the east and north: an office, guest bedrooms and bathrooms, and ultimately a master suite with his-and-hers baths.