New York-based designer, Gabriel Hendifar, has shaped a 140-square-metre loft with carpeted platforms, layered materials, and textiles to create an atmosphere that feels at once cinematic and deeply introspective, balancing the building’s industrial origins with the warmth of personal history.
It was two Iranian tapestries, a gift from his cousin for the new house, that closed the circle of a feeling of belonging and déjà-vu that the earth and blue colour palette communicated to him: “They had been given to her by her mother, and to her mother by her mother.... It was as if I was getting a message from another dimension, because the colour palette of the apartment was literally that of the tapestries, down to the smallest details,” says Gabriel Hendifar, founder, art director and ceo of the interdisciplinary design studio Apparatus: “The tapestries acted as portals and became for me a source of creative energy that fuels what we do here.”
Located in a 1970s building, the structure was converted from an industrial space into an artists' space. “It still has a certificate of artistic residency, which is a rather rare condition in New York City, allowing people to live and work in the same environment,” Hendifar explains. The completely open apartment has as its extreme poles a bed and a grand piano, raised by a series of carpeted platforms designed, in a theatrical narrative, as small stages, each with a specific function and experience.
The apartment exists between nostalgia and reinvention, informed by the personal history of the designer, the son of Iranian immigrants who arrived in the United States in 1979, and by a desire to create something deeply personal yet forward-looking. Plus, references to the 1970s, the building's classicism, and its history as an artistic hub. “Over the years, the building has seen countless extraordinary artists and musicians pass through, and this presence of history is what attracted me from the start-I could almost feel it, breathe it, even before I knew the neighbours. When I arrived in New York, I was fascinated, as many are, by its history and the desire to become part of it, to contribute to its cultural fabric. This apartment, for me, was like a cocoon: a container of a specific moment in my life, marked by personal and artistic reflection. I wanted to create something that was both cosy and introspective.”
The confrontation with oneself is declined, in the interior, in a series of mirrored walls that double the space and what is contained therein: “Mirrors are everywhere. For me, they have a spiritual dimension as well: reflection as a gesture, as a confrontation with oneself, of seeing oneself inside the story one is building, becoming aware of one's presence. Seeing oneself in space changes the way one inhabits it, induces a form of attention, almost a conscious enactment,” Hendifar says.
In the home, a gallery of furniture and pieces from Apparatus' catalogues from the past 12 years, many prototypes, some experiments: “I tried to include objects that conveyed an artistic familiarity to me. The Cloud lamp was the very first thing I hung above my bed. I like to see it every morning, it's like a reminder. Otherwise, something succeeded right away; in other cases, it took several unsuccessful attempts, as with the aluminium screens.” An interior born from a spatial intuition, which was then built by additions. “First, I worked on the arrangement of functions, and then I thought: I know there is a bed here, I know there is a sofa here. I also knew I wanted a piano, because I've been playing since I was 8 years old. But the rest of the furniture was a kind of natural, organic exploration where every choice was about the right balance of things, the sense of welcome, the desire to stay, take off your shoes and lie down on the carpet,” comments the designer.
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