Decades on, the five-storey, seven-bedroom townhouse lay dilapidated and abandoned before undergoing a massive renovation of husband and wife design duo, Robert and Cortney Novogratz of the eponymous and famed firm The Novogratz. After spending more than 20 years renovating homes from across the US western
coast, the team discovered this New York ruin, so debilitated that it had to be, quite literally, rebuilt from the ground up, on the verge of collapse. “The goal of the renovation was to bring an old, beautiful and historic building back
to life, give it a future while still retaining it,” explains Cortney, designer and one of the The Novogratz. “Taking it down to the studs, we did as much as we could to preserve the spirit of the original property.”