Creative Art Partners with Sebastian Zuchowicki in ELLE Decor

How One Rising Designer Created An Elegant Loft With “SoHo Grit”

When a young finance professional was looking to move from New York City’s East Village to SoHo, he knew exactly what it held in store. “To me, SoHo epitomizes the essence of Lower Manhattan,” he says. “It’s a neighborhood layered with history, yet continually reinvented as a hub for art, fashion, and culture.” He found a loft on Crosby Street in a building that had once been a corset factory and was smitten: The space spoke perfectly to the dichotomy that made him fall in love with the neighborhood in the first place.

Though his sister-in-law decorated his East Village apartment, he saw the Crosby Street residence as an opportunity to collaborate in a more formal capacity with an interior designer. The sister-in-law introduced him to Sebastian Zuchowicki and told him he’d “be an idiot” not to work with the young studio on the project. “What I admired most about Sebastian’s work was his originality,” says the homeowner. “From the outset, it was clear that he takes a truly bespoke approach, crafting something unique and exciting for each client, rather than repeating a formula.