This 415-Square-Foot West Village Apartment Is an Interior Designer’s Calling Card
Photography by: Billal Taright
Armando Aguirre was ready to make a change. After living on the Upper West Side for years—during which he turned a 250-square-foot apartment into a pandemic-era canvas of creative expression—Armando felt an unignorable push to try something new. “In my career as an interior designer, I’ve worked on every type of project available,” he says. “And I wanted to be closer to where my social life was.”
That gut feeling was telling Armando to level up and move somewhere in New York with the type of square footage that didn’t feel as precarious during a morning stretch or a late-night return. But the more he considered this shift, the more he also entertained the idea of starting his own namesake design firm. Change, at least in Armando’s case, was contagious.
