Christopher Sturman

Nov 27, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alexa Brazilian |Christopher Sturman

"IT HAS THE spirit of a loft," says the interior designer Martin Brûlé, surveying the apartment that inhabits an entire floor of the Sherry-Netherland, the 38-story Jazz Age Fifth Avenue co-op and hotel overlooking Central Park at 59th Street. "The stereotype of a New York loft is that it's downtown with this artsy feeling, mismatched furniture. Well, this space has all those elements.

Jun 28, 2024 | architecturaldigest.com | Mayer Rus |Christopher Sturman

Is it possible to look forward and backward at the same time? Judging by the unabashedly romantic, idiosyncratic home of Anne Crawford and Dudley DeZonia, the idea of reaching for the past while keeping an eye on the future is not only possible but, in this case, preferable. The couple’s historic Ojai refuge makes an eloquent case for the inspired coalescence of nostalgia and contemporary brio.