Interiors
Mediterranean Villa
Built of local stone in 1926, the house has been renovated and expanded with great care over a four-year period. This sensitive redesign emphasizes comfort, relaxed entertaining, and simple maintenance. The interiors capture the spirit of a modern inhabitants at home in an ancient city. A succession of sun-filled spaces flows from room to room, culminating in a wisteria-canopied terrace and a garden adorned by antiquities and stately trees.
Victoria Borus and
Franklin Salasky
Central Park Penthouse
New York City
This duplex on Central Park West enjoys spectacular views over the park’s Reservoir. A terrace surrounding the main living rooms intensifies the effect of a direct link to the pastoral landscape. Interior clapboard walls, leather doors, and hand-wrought architectural details compose a richly textural background for cabinetry and furniture custom-designed for these interiors.
Salvatore LaRosa and
Charles Capaldi, Architects
Salvatore LaRosa, Interior Design
Family Compound I
Long Island, N.Y.
This is a modern villa designed to bring nature into the owners’ lives. It is the first of three structures built in a family compound amid a bucolic landscape. A drive winds to an entry forecourt, and just beyond the front door an inner courtyard beckons. The mainly glass-walled living room and two grand porches open onto expansive views of water, trees, and rolling terrain.
Salvatore LaRosa
and Ronald Bentley
Manhattan Pied-a-Terre
New York City
The clients are avid explorers of contemporary culture for whom photography is a life-long passion. Their Upper East Side apartment has been fully renovated for ease of maintenance and family entertaining.
Franklin Salasky, Interior Design and Architecture
Collection on Park
New York City
A love affair with contemporary art has played out over decades within these walls. The background of restrained modern classicism highlights the owners’ evolving tastes in both art and design.
Franklin Salasky, Interior Design and Architecture
Master Class
A triplex penthouse facing the Central Park Reservoir, this apartment displays an extraordinary collection of Greek and Roman antiquities as well as museum-quality Chinese carpets and Ming furniture. The walls are hung with paintings and drawings by Picasso, Otto Dix, Marc Chagall, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, and other twentieth-century masters. Giving these beautiful things their due, and integrating them into the owners’ everyday lives, was both a challenge and a labor of love.
Victoria Borus, Interior Design
