Life on the roof: an apartment in Manhattan with a huge terrace

Leaving native penates is always difficult. The owners of this apartment brought their native Brazil to the roof of one of the buildings in New York. What happened, read in our material Florist Christine Peixoto and her husband Marcus Silberman, a banking specialist, spent their entire lives in Rio de Janeiro. And when they moved to Manhattan, the apartment was chosen with the largest terrace that they could find. Now nostalgic spouses with 2 children from MaySeptember live as they liked to live in Brazil, and spend most of the day in the open air. And 600 square meters. m well-equipped terrace completely meet the needs of each family member. However, this would not have been possible without a designerPeter Pawlak, whom the couple invited to create comfort in their new domain. And if the designer worked in tandem with the professional landscape planner Maureen Hackett on the terrace project, Peter himself designed the apartment himself. The designer admits that he loves to work with families, because it can be extremely difficult to maintain the style and satisfy the desires of several people, often very different, at once, but at the same time it is very exciting. Attacks of nostalgia or simplyThe desire to bring a piece of the old house to a new house can be met with a few tricks. Photos and paintings from your favorite places will give the right direction, which can be supported with the help of plants, thematic ornament on textiles and finishing materials brought from "those" places or at least reminding them. The designer received quite a few unusual conditions.The owners' eldest daughter, who is already 18 years old, demanded to make her bedroom as austere as possible: "Let everyone who comes here think that I have nothing of my own at all." Her 15-year-old brother was preoccupied with an exceptionally comfortable set-up and a shelf for football awards. The owner of the house wished to see the apartment exclusively in a white palette, and only in the bedroom, from her point of view, should be ... black. The head of the family even demanded that the fireplace be completely laid, because there are no fireplaces in Brazil. The designer objected, reminding them that they are now in New York and that it can be quite cold here in winter. To this, the customer cheerfully replied that winter does not exist for him.