When textile designer Amira Marion and boyfriend Pierre Carpentier moved back to New York after living in Paris for a couple of years, they rented a room in the apartment of an interior decorator from Airbnb while they apartment hunted in Brooklyn. They fell in love with the building’s high ceilings, whitewashed exposed brick and great light, so they got in touch with the building manager and learned that the owner had one apartment available in another building he owned. Luckily for the couple, the layout was exactly the same. They had lived in Williamsburg before and really loved the neighborhood so it was a perfect fit. Amira says that she’s done her fair share of apartment hunting in New York and knew when to pounce. This one has a dishwasher, a roof with a great view, laundry in the building and they’re half a block from the subway! Once the lease was signed, it was time to begin decorating. As a textile designer for her company, Archive New York, Amira was excited to splash her own textiles all over the apartment, which meant that she had to make careful choices on the furniture’s color palette to ensure that she could change the throws, pillows or artwork whenever she wanted. And because she works from home many days a week, she wanted to make sure that things were relatively uncluttered. Two years later, it’s a bright, colorful space perfect for the ever-changing array of textiles that Amira brings home from work or travels. -Amy
Photography by Gabriel Frye-Behar
Image above: “The 1960s wall hanging from San Mateo Ixtatán, Guatemala is one of my favorite textiles I own,” says Amira. “It’s completely hand embroidered and has such a beautiful color palette. The fruit bowls are French antiques from the 1800s. I spent a lot of time souring the fleas and eBay while I lived in Paris, searching for anything from the collection ‘Flora’ by Creil-Montereau. They have the most perfect blue/white floral motif.”
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