THE LAST TIME we checked in on Nate Berkus. he and his family had just moved into their new townhouse in Manhattan’s lower Fifth. That was five years ago. By 2017, the couple and their daughter, Poppy, were living in a 9,000-square-foot 1928 Spanish Colonial in Los Angeles’s Hancock Park, a home that they had declared would be their forever home. Not more than two years later, they’re back in Manhattan, this time in a 3,400-square-foot 1899 townhouse, the designer’s husband Brent missing life back in the east coast city. It was, of course, a major change that required extensive downsizing. Berkus had confessed that the Los Angeles living room could hold thirty pieces of furniture, while this NYC living room could only hold six. They also welcomed the birth of a son in this time and have managed to turn the once sterile townhouse into a home. It has all the Berkus trademarks: neutral tones in shades of black, white and brown (this time in the form of an dramatic basket-weave grass-cloth wall covering in the living room). There are still tufted club chairs, and built-in bookcases (this one is rather impressive in white oak), plenty of light and plenty of marble and a beautiful array of gilded accents to break things up. Scroll through for a glimpse…
Photography by Nicole Franzen
