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"Breathing Lessons on Fifth Avenue\nA Fresh Approach For An Apartment In a McKim, Mead White Building\n\"It's really unusual to have such a large space and such incredible detailing,\" James Huniford says of an apartment he and his partner, Stephen Sills, designed in a landmark manhattan building. Robert Mangold's Curled Finger XIV (Version 3) is in the living room. Brunschwig Fils pillow fabric. Stark chair fabric.\nSills and Huniford restored the living room's historic elements, such as the Louis XV-style ceiling medallion and the gilt plasterwork. Sills calls the placement of Regency mirrors on either side of the fireplace \"a surrealist conceit\u2014two eyes and a big mouth.\" Four Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux Art D\u00E9co chairs flank a low table custom-designed by Sills Huniford Associates. Decorators Walk fabric on chairs near fireplace.\nA suite of Ruhlmann tub chairs surrounds a table in the dining/family room. A venetian mirror, between bugatti brackets, hangs over a French Empire mahogany cabinet. The chandelier is 1930s French. Jim Thompson chair silk. Edelman wing chair leather, left.\nChestnut reclaimed from a barn\u2014bleached and fashioned into paneling\u2014adds rustic elegance to the dining/family room. In a playful touch, the mantel was speckled with paint; above it is a 1st-century Roman relief. Mirror-Shadow XXIX, 1986, by Louise Nevelson, is over the sofa.\nThe designers transformed the entrance gallery into a stately library. A lemonwood desk made to look like a Greek temple faces an Empire round table. Clarence House sofa fabric. Edelman leather on pair of antique Swedish chairs. Brunschwig Fils balloon shade fabric.\nEchoing the Greek and Roman galleries at The metropolitan museum of Art across the street, the designers used marble for the master bath's floors and hung etchings of Greco-Roman pottery on the walls, which are paneled in satinwood.\nSills and Huniford designed a bed for the master bedroom that \"is very architectural and strong,\" remarks Huniford. An 18th-century Italian cabinet stands near a 1977 untitled work from Robert Motherwell's Samurai series. Stark chair fabric, with Scalamandr\u00E9 fringe. Lee Jofa drapery lining."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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