A Family’s Prewar Apartment Reno Gets Its Inspo From Colorful European Style
Photography by Matthew Williams
The owners of this apartment, who work in the finance and fashion industries and have two young kids, have an affinity for European homes. They like how a modern taste and a vintage style intertwine in those spaces, allowing vibrant colors to hop and skip between each room. So it’s just too bad that they live in New York City. Well, at least in theory.
“Their apartment is located on Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,” Britt Zunino says. “It’s across the street from Central Park.” The couple obviously enjoy an ideal location, and could at least cherish the bygone charms of being in a prewar building. But the place still needed an overhaul to completely align with their taste. So they hired Britt and Damian Zunino, principals of Studio DB and a husband-and-wife duo themselves, to oversee a renovation that would combine the past and present within a palette of bold and complementary shades.
