Incollect Magazine - Issue 10

50 www.incollect.com Ashe Leandro: Architecture + Interiors by Ariel Ashe and Reinaldo Leandro © 2024 Ashe Leandro Published by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. Available through Rizzoli.com and Amazon Artists Rashid Johnson and Sheree Hovsepian’s 1910 townhouse in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan is an art and design-filled haven, where they live surrounded by their artwork, works by artists they have collected through the years, and a substantial array of vintage and collectible design. The couple has worked with Ashe Leandro for over fifteen years and multiple residences, and that ongoing creative relationship contributed much to the clarity of vision in the interiors. Every element is layered with intent, serving as inspiration, touchstone, or reference to history past. The cavernous 34-foot long, 20-foot tall main room contained none of the architectural details now present, the designers enriched the space with faux-marble painted baseboards, wall moldings, a reclaimed seventeenth- century co ered painted ceiling from Sicily, a limestone mantel from an 18th-century French chateau, and a wall of casement windows. The antique rug is a circa 1850 Persian Bakhshayesh; the honey-hued meandering custom sofa is joined by a two-piece 1970s Bronzeforms 4 biomorphic co ee table by Silas Seandel. A live-edge George Nakashima co ee table is placed with a pair of low-slung Joaquim Tenreiro “Manta” Brazilian Modernist lounge chairs, towered over by Sentinel IV (Gold), 2021, a nearly 11-foot-tall gold-leafed bronze sculpture by Simone Leigh. On the wall behind is a 1951 painting Symbols and a Woman, by American Abstract Expressionist painter Adolph Gottlieb. Photo: Adrian Gaut