For design voyeurs, and with more glass block that you can shake a stick at, a walk through 2300 Broadway is to time travel back more than twenty years. Sandy Walker designed beautifully proportioned and crafted houses, deploying the best materials and craftsmen, managing to meld contemporary and traditional design elements so skillfully they just seemed right together. In this house built in 1988 there are walls of glass block and mirror and a grand staircase packed into a Francophile Second Empire envelope in stucco.
For design voyeurs, and with more glass block that you can shake a stick at, a walk through 2300 Broadway is to time travel back more than twenty years. Sandy Walker designed beautifully proportioned and crafted houses, deploying the best materials and craftsmen, managing to meld contemporary and traditional design elements so skillfully they just seemed right together. Within this house from 1988, he packed walls of glass block and mirror and a very grand staircase all into a Second Empire envelope– 19th Century France meets Sonoma– in stucco. The staircase has been set into a 4-story bay window:
The dressing area off the master bedroom:
The living room– a big cubic space with increible views. Walker worked with the late, great decorator Michael Smith on a number of projects and his influence is apparent. Plus we’re loving that plush Morroccan rug from the ’50s:
It’s not every day you have room for the photography collection in the kitchen. Note that the stainless steel caboinets have brass hardware, and that the cleaning staff will want extra for keeping that range hood gleaming. This is not a low-maintenance house:
For all its grand spaces, this is only a 3-bed, 3-bath house, and that includes the lower-level apartment. No mention of an elevator. There’s a bit of well-hedged garden out front and a view deck on top off the pentroom– which somehow makes up for the lack of a yard:
