WINTER RESIDENCE

Located on a tree-lined street with many turn-of-the-century buildings, 35 E 68th Street, the Dunham House is a 25-foot-wide Limestone Masino located between Park and Madison Avenue.

Carrere & Hastings, the architectural firm best known for The Frick Collection and the NY Public Library, built The Dunham House in 1899. The exterior façade was fashion with French details in the very au currant Beaux Arts style. Erected Between 1899 and 1901, it was a frothy confection dripping with carved garlands and extenuated brackets above the third floor.

The Dunham town house is within the Upper East Side Historic District, designated in 1981 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Functional Creative Design was tasked with renovating and designing Pied-a-Terre. The approach was to ensure functionality, celebrate historical details within the space, and provide solutions that address sustainable building practices.

Along with following NYC historical board guidelines, the design concept was to reflect the client's own private sanctuary that felt like a boutique suite in a hotel. That captured and merged the California and NYC atmospheres into one.