{"id":370778,"date":"2026-10-12T05:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370778\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T05:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:09:05","slug":"collectible-design-takes-centre-stage-at-this-interior-designers-manhattan-penthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370778\/","title":{"rendered":"Collectible Design Takes Centre Stage at This Interior Designer&#8217;s Manhattan Penthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The primary suite is conceived as a retreat, with an extensive dressing space, bathrooms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.admiddleeast.com\/story\/this-moscow-home-with-its-own-hammam-is-the-ultimate-wellness-flex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Jacuzzi and a sauna<\/a>. The palette is deliberately muted, bringing calm to the volume of the rooms, while art, lighting and sculptural pieces introduce character and moments of colour. Glass, mirrors and the white Thassos floor in the main living area are anchored by generous, oversized sofas set against a palette of deep blue, rust, gold, pink and ochre.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.admiddleeast.com\/story\/how-carl-gerges-designed-a-mountain-home-in-lebanon-with-a-panoramic-glass-wall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">large expanses of glazing<\/a> make that relationship between the interior and the city particularly strong. \u201cThere is a calmness to the larger pieces, particularly the large sofas in soft neutral fabrics, but then you have these more expressive interventions through art, lighting, rugs and objects,\u201d the interior designer shares.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Collectible Design Takes Centre Stage at This Interior Designer's Manhattan Penthouse\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Shalini_Misra_11.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Hanna Grankvist<\/p>\n<p>Misra bought the Manhattan penthouse in early 2025 and embarked on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.admiddleeast.com\/story\/clever-renovation-ideas-vibrant-art-collection-tired-apartment-a-new-lease-of-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renovation<\/a> that was completed nearly five months later. The brief aimed to make the space feel intimate and comfortable despite the scale and drama of the setting. One of the interesting challenges, the designer reveals, was the entrance of the penthouse, as it didn\u2019t benefit from the dramatic views encountered elsewhere in the apartment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The primary suite is conceived as a retreat, with an extensive dressing space, bathrooms, a Jacuzzi and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[19768,2419,75,84,83,9,24,63,19769,990],"class_list":["post-370778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-home-tours","tag-homes","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}