Sunday, October 19, 2008

Nice furniture that won't look right in an East Village apartment


In this week's Habitats in the Times, a couple struggles to find the right apartment for their unique furniture, particularly an antique mahogany table she was going to inherit from her grandmother:

It certainly wasn’t going to look right in one of those swaths of raw space near St. Marks Place or in any of the other 138 spaces, downtown and uptown, that the couple checked out in the course of a year in the mid-1990s.

The Sheraton-style table required just the right setting, as did the circa 1790 Hepplewhite serpentine-front sideboard. So, apparently, did Ms. Houlgrave, 46, a model who has worked for Glamour, Vogue and Self magazines, and who has a second career as a wedding and fashion photographer.

“I didn’t want to live in the stinky East Village,” she said with characteristic directness. “It was so unattractive. I am from Richmond, Virginia.”


The couple now lives on the Upper West Side.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousOctober 19, 2008 at 9:42 PM

    Richmond has some rough-looking neighborhoods. What does that mean? She's from a tony suburb of Richmond?

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