Adjacent Manhattan apartments are merged into a single unit comprising two wings, private and public, with bands of custom wood veneer creating a fluid architectural language.
Seeking to avoid a gut renovation, the 2009 Design Vanguard preserves period touches while updating a stately 1892 structure under a breakneck timeframe.
Both from working-class communities in the middle of the country (Miller grew up in Illinois; Taylor hails from Colorado), the pair share an affinity for hand-tooled architecture with conceptual underpinnings.