Learn One Designer’s Tricks for Adding Personality to a Blah Apartment
Photo by Ori Harpaz
Daniel Cingari, an executive producer, has spent the last 15 years in about as many apartments. But when he found this one in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, he knew he had a keeper. Just kidding, there was actually nothing special about it. “There were no architectural details, and it had terrible fluorescent lighting,” he says. “It was a boring, dingy, renter white box.”
It did have the potential to be something better, especially given its views of the General Theological Seminary, and Dan envisioned a cozy yet colorful home he felt connected to. So he got in touch with interior designer Ryan Lawson, who’s been his friend for a decade, and asked for help. “Dan is this really stylish, creative guy,” Ryan says. “When we started talking about how to do this, it was clear that we were going to create a collection that could work in this space but travel with him wherever he decided to go.”
