When Tricia Brock, a director for HBO shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, and Silicon Valley, bought her Upper East Side one-bedroom apartment in a prewar co-op building, it was dark and “had a schizophrenic feel,” according to her architects, Andrés Ulises Cortés and Sarrah Khan of Agencie. “The front of the apartment had a bank of windows, which allows a pleasant wash of northern light into the space, but the back was a warren of cubbied-off spaces facing a sky well, resulting in a suffocating set of rooms,” Khan says.
To remedy the situation, Cortés and Khan opened up the dark, L-shaped galley kitchen; working with Henrybuilt, they anchored the space with a small but functional island and added glamorous touches (a marble backsplash and brass-trimmed lighting via interior designer George Terbovich). Join us for a tour.
Above: The architects leveled the existing kitchen floor, which had been raised to allow for a drain line, and installed a wood floor, which they painted dark gray (Brock wanted to establish a kitchen zone to distinguish the space from the rest of the apartment, which has stained oak flooring). The kitchen cabinets, countertops, and butcher block island were designed by Henrybuilt. The service door to the left is one of the few remaining elements from the original kitchen,
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