A Craftsman’s Home in Prospect Heights

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [Craftsman Home]( In a Prospect Heights floor-through, a set designer pays homage to her art form. Photo: Todd Oldham The first time Kiera Coffee walked into her Prospect Heights apartment 27 years ago, accompanied by a real-estate agent, “every single room was Pepto Bismol pink,” she says. “The bathroom had been retiled in pink, there was a pink shower and pink kitchen counters, and I was told that the former tenant lived without a stove because it couldn’t be pink.” But the landlady repainted the apartment, and Coffee moved in. Over the following decades, Coffee — an author, prop stylist, and set designer — would fill nearly every surface with a constantly rotating assemblage of crafts. Some of these she created for work, like a mobile she once brought home from a set; others she designed on a whim, like a vessel she made out of an old seltzer bottle. “Most of my apartment changes constantly,” she says. “It gets messy, but messy can be really fruitful.” — Wendy Goodman [TAKE A TOUR]( Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [A Townhouse With a Tree House in the Backyard David Byrne sold it to artist Melinda Hackett, who built the circular playhouse for her three daughters.]( 2. [A Brewery Conversion in Harlem That Looks Like DUMBO At the Manhattanville Factory District, the very old fuses with biotech and movie production.]( 3. [Fashion Week Gets Breathing Room at the Starrett-Lehigh Building Editors, buyers, and influencers should have plenty of space (and enough elevators) at the industrial-scale Chelsea behemoth.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday.]( [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved