Designed by interior designer Purvi Padia in partnership with UNICEF USA, Project Lion is a multi-year effort that’s committed to providing displaced children in with food, health care, education, and access to long-term family care. This critical program will ensure that thousands of children left without family care can be given a second chance to grow in loving, stable, nurturing and protective environments.
“Children’s rooms should have a sense of magic to them,” says interior decorator Purvi Padia, who imparted miles of enchantment when designing a room for her now 2½-year-old son Rehan. When Padia and her husband, Harsh, first moved into their four-bedroom Tribeca apartment, they had to work a bit of real estate alchemy as well.
“Rehan’s room wasn’t a bedroom,” explains Padia, who recently launched her own residential design practice (purvipadia.com). “It was supposed to be a study off the master. We wanted his room to be connected to ours, so we put in doors and converted it.”
“While Rehan’s nursery is a child’s room through and through, his play space, set in a corner of the living room, is designed to harmonize with the home’s warm yet clean-lined aesthetic.”
“We’re obsessed with folding and sliding door systems that allow a space to be multifunctional yet interesting and chic.” -Purvi Padia of Purvi Padia Design
“Not even a designer’s own home is safe from client-imposed compromises, but for her Tribeca living room, Purvi Padia came up with elegant solutions to her family’s unruly demands. In plain sight she concealed the toys of both her 2-year-old son (vibrant playthings) and her husband (a massive flat-screen TV). Her David Blaine- worthy ticks? The toys are tucked in uniform flax bins, while the fireplace wall (home to the TV) is sheathed in bronze panels nearly the same color as the screen – the chicest camouflage ever. Still, there’s space for Purvi, with pops of orange that “bring a little happiness to the room, ” says the woman who, in the end, didn’t relinquish one iota of style.”
Living in a loft and designing it to be your sweet getaway is one-of-a-kind experience. Loft decorating ideas encompass unexpectedly tall and dramatic windowing, open floors, and a beautiful light flow to keep the place fresh during the day and to throw a look on the amazing nightlights of your city.
This being said, loft design ideas make for the most modern and industrial ones, and it is not rare to meet ductwork, concrete, and exposed pipes in any of these homes.
“I wasn’t surprised I fell in love with this Tribeca Penthouse by Purvi Padia. Grey is such an awesome neutral. I’ve seen both clean and warm spaces created using grey as a neutral. What I appreciate most about this penthouse is, it’s clean but also feels homey. The living room sofa looks insanely comfortable and the placing the TV in the center of the adjacent wall tells me the room will actually be utilized.”
Beige doesn’t have to be boring. Neither does brown, gray, or cream. Using a range of neutral hues with just a few color accents, interior designer Purvi Padia crafted a look that is as eye-catching as it is refined in this four-bedroom Tribeca loft. “I don’t use a ton of color, in the traditional sense, in my designs” Padia says. “I want points of interest to come from shapes, materials, finishes, and textures.” Comfortable furnishings and understated but elegant custom accents and antiques give this loft a lived-in feeling that is anything but basic.
I started my career in corporate design for beauty/ fashion brands. During my 8 years of work in the beauty / fashion industry, I learned countless lessons about design, project management, client relations and marketing. However, during those years, I always felt something was missing and that there had to be a way for me to feel even more professionally fulfilled. Since I was a little girl, entrepreneurship was a dream of mine; and while I loved fashion & beauty, I soon realized interiors were my true passion. So, I went back to school and got my degree in interior design. I launched my firm in 2009. Having my own company has been an unbelievable amount of work, but it has also taught me so much about what I’m capable of and has been hugely gratifying. Interior design has so many similarities to the beauty/ fashion world, but I love the added layer of intimacy that creating a home for a specific client allows.
When Purvi Padia’s clients snapped up an 8,000-square foot home in Westport, CT, they gave the Manhattan-based interior designer a massive task. Could she transform this traditional house, decorated in ’80s stalwarts like murals, brass lights and crystal chandeliers, into a fresh, modern home? ” The aesthetic was so far from what they envisioned,” says Padia. “The bones were good but everything inside had to go.”
“All in all, Padia created a living space that would look just at home in Tribeca as in the suburbs of Connecticut.”
This impressive Tribeca penthouse has multiple tiers of outdoor living space and luxurious interior designed by Purvi Padia. It’s no wonder it caught the eye of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West during their recent stay in the city.
