On the Upper West Side, AD100 designer Julie Hillman delivers a creative yet calming aerie for the esteemed broadcast journalist and her family.
When you enter a Frank Lloyd Wright home, there’s often a major wow moment—when you step out of the close quarters of an entryway and into a vast space. It’s a tried-and-true architectural technique that the great American architect called compression and release. When AD100 interior designer Julie Hillman was faced with the startlingly low entry ceilings in this Upper West Side aerie, she took a page from Wright’s book. “I made it all black,” she explains. “So you enter through this low steel frame, and then everything just opens up.” Behold: a sun-bathed glass volume with soaring 14-foot ceilings overlooking the Hudson River, a bespoke Nacho Carbonell light sculpture hovering there like a cloud.
