Removing the wall between Kitchen & Office to enlarge the Kitchen space. Opens up the space and brings more natural light into the Kitchen.

And so it begins, the dust that is. “The Wall” comes down!

One of my favorite small apartments is this tiny East Village studio apartment that Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture transformed into a one bedroom loft. Near the front half of the space, JPDA built an amazing wood paneled central station that supports a lofted bedroom area and contains the kitchen, bathroom and lots of storage space. The wooden hub immediately separate the studio into three different zones. Fixtures are built directly into the walls, and storage space is tucked in underused spaces, like in each stair leading up to the lofted bed.

In the past, the Chelsea was home to musicians, writers and artists, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Robert Mapplethorpe, Leonard Cohen, Virgil Thomson, Mark Twain, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg and Larry Rivers, among many others. Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey in the hotel. Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road there. Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols allegedly stabbed to death his girlfriend Nancy Spungen in one of the rooms.

In a recent New York Post article, several possible buyers were listed for the 222 West 23rd Street property, with David Edelstein of Tristar Capital as the front runner. Edelstein has been quite vocal in interviews that if he indeed becomes the owner of the 250-room hotel, which opened in 1883, it will certainly not be run the way it once was.