Architecture by Steven Harris Architects
Landscape by Rees Roberts + Partners
Photography by Scott Frances
Brooklyn, NY
This Brooklyn townhouse for art collectors moves between two distinct registers: a highly controlled interior with sculpted circulation, and a sequence of garden and roof spaces shaped as rooms of their own. The signature spiral stair is not just a focal object in these photos; it is a continuous plaster volume with a dark wood rail and gray carpet runner that organizes the house floor by floor.
The interior palette stays quiet but materially exact. In the kitchen, black lower cabinetry and pale oak-toned wall panels sit against strongly veined white stone backsplashes and shelves, while large black steel-framed openings pull the garden directly into the dining room. Elsewhere, pale walls and tailored built-ins keep attention on proportion, artwork, and a small set of repeated materials: stone, wood, metal, and textile.
Several rooms show how the project handles furnishing as architecture. Deep blue upholstered perimeter benches turn the roof pavilion into an interior-outdoor room, while the study is defined by full-height shelving, a stone fireplace surround, and two large steel windows framing dense tree canopy. Even the bathrooms split moods precisely, from the luminous marble primary bath to the darker, wood-lined powder room with black stone and brass pendants.
What stands out across the images is the consistency of edge conditions. Ceiling slots, flush plaster curves, slim black frames, and carefully proportioned built-ins make each room feel formal without losing warmth, especially where the house opens to planted terraces and the rear garden facade.
Tags: Steven Harris Architects, Rees Roberts + Partners, Brooklyn
