A Bibliophile Couple’s Brooklyn Apartment Finds a Smart Storage Solution for More Than 1,000 Books
Design-build firm Spot Lab reimagine an old 980-square-foot corner unit with birch-plywood built-ins for the family’s home library and a U-shaped banquette for entertaining.
Design-build firm Spot Lab reimagine an old 980-square-foot corner unit with birch-plywood built-ins for the family’s home library and a U-shaped banquette for entertaining.
You know a renovation is getting serious when you have to buy a commercial building to get a space large enough to make the custom millwork. That was what Tessa French and Zeb Burge, the couple behind design-build firm Spot Lab, found themselves doing in the spring of 2021 when they signed on to reimagine a 980-square-foot apartment on the top floor of a 1953 cooperative building in Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace neighborhood.
The clients—Eric Tsai, a programmer at a linguistics research institute, and Audrey Christensen-Tsai, a research collection manager—had seen the pair’s work on a Brooklyn house, which had been featured on Brownstoner, a local real estate website. "It felt like it was done by somebody that had a handle on fun detail, but it wasn’t overdone," says Audrey. "They had a strong sense of color."
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