Rebecca Cohen Design completed a gut renovation of a 4,100-square-foot apartment overlooking Central Park for a young family of four. The project involved combining two adjacent units that had long been merged but never truly integrated, and reimagining the result from the ground up. 

Threaded through all of it is the home's aesthetic language. The building's Art Deco heritage provides the architectural frame, but against that Cohen-Scharfman has woven a deep appreciation for Japanese design. The owners' connection to Japan is personal — one of them was born and lived there — and family heirlooms from Japan are scattered throughout. Cohen-Scharfman worked to find the resonance between these influences — the shared commitment to craft and to the idea that beauty and utility are inseparable.