The second bedroom of Greenwich Street Loft, a loft-style condominium in the Hudson Square neighborhood of downtown Manhattan in New York, United States, now serves as a study and guest room, fitted with custom millwork and hung with custom-framed Persian manuscript paintings from the owner’s collection. New York-based Elmo Studios, led by Danielle Schwartz and Guillermo Castello, carried out the renovation for a young tech executive, reworking the interior architecture of the unit along with its furnishings.

The original two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath layout had good light and loft proportions but little built-in infrastructure. Elmo Studios reconfigured the plan around daily use and entertaining. The kitchen was rebuilt and integrated into the living and dining area, and the study conversion lets the second bedroom take overnight guests when needed. Concealed storage, custom joinery, and a new lighting scheme scaled to each room were added throughout the unit.

Custom oak millwork and textured stone surfaces run through the main spaces, and honed stone slabs wrap several key volumes. The honed slabs serve as a backdrop for the owner’s art and personal objects. The palette draws on mid-century modernism, with references to her Iranian heritage. In the bedroom, a 17th-century Persian Pictorial Kerman rug from Rug & Kilim, given to the owner by her mother, is displayed against a textured plaster wall.

The rest of the furnishings mix bespoke pieces with works hand-sourced from local galleries. Contemporary works from Amelie Maison d’Art and sculptural lighting by Apparatus sit alongside vintage pieces from Dienst & Dotter, which supplied a folk art chair that sits with the manuscript paintings in the study and a circa-1800 Allmoge bench, a piece of Swedish folk furniture, for the entryway. In the living room, a ceremonial artifact stand from the same dealer is placed beside a contemporary cloud table by Louise Lijencrantz.