Inside this multi-layered Manhattan loft, historic architectural bones meet sculptural lighting, custom grasscloth and curated luxury.
From the street, New York’s Soho rarely gives too much away. Its cast-iron façades, broad windows and cobbled corners still carry traces of the neighbourhood’s earlier lives: first as a manufacturing district, later as the raw downtown enclave where artists moved into empty lofts and changed the idea of New York living. For Maneli Wilson, founder & principal designer of her eponymous firm, one building had long held her attention.
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“I lived one block away for ten years and walked past it nearly every day,” she reflects. “It stood apart because it had never undergone the residential conversions that had transformed much of Soho. The windows were always dark, and the building seemed forgotten.” Years later, when longstanding clients from England called to say they had bought a loft downtown, the address came as a surprise. “Having spent so many years wondering about its future, it felt incredibly rewarding to become part of its next chapter.”