'I am not going to claim that I knew how beautiful it really could become. I really didn’t'
Living Room: “I had been using a lot of muted colors” before meeting the team behind the Irish furniture company Orior, Guthrie says. Orior provided the furniture for the living room. Photo: Matthew Williams “I am not going to claim that I knew how beautiful it really could become. I really didn’t,” says Peter Guthrie, who used to live around the corner from this 1840s Greek Revival house, which had long ago been divided into apartments, on Henry Street in Cobble Hill.
But he wasn’t cooking this gut-reno up by himself. Almost a decade ago, he and Susanne Schaal, who runs her own creative-branding agency, Jakob Jakob, collaborated on wrapping DDG’s building 345 Meatpacking with a custom-designed scrim based on Yayoi Kusama’s painting Yellow Trees to celebrate the artist’s 2012 retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
“I had sold my house around the corner, and I was looking for a new project when this particular beauty” became available, remembers Guthrie. “It’s east-west facing. I lived in a building with north-south orientation, and it’s a very different lighting configuration.” Plus, “the top floor had a very low ceiling, and I poked my head up and saw this attic that was up there, and I said, ‘Ah, I think we could do something with this.
“The project started just before the pandemic,” Guthrie says, “and it was kind of a labor of love.” But the gut renovation of Henry Street is also a declaration of sorts of what Yellowtrees, separate from DDG, can cook up from its studio in Red Hook.
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