Inspiration struck Lucinda Loya during an all-nighter.
It was 2008, and the Houston-based interior designer was struggling to choose a unifying design philosophy for a former chapel in Gramercy — soon to be her family’s Manhattan pied-à-terre. She agonized over it, staying up until 8 a.m. measuring wall heights and floor lengths.
“It needed to be simple and elegant, but full of character,” she says in a charming Southern drawl, gazing up at her 23-foot-high living room ceilings. “It literally came to me that night: Nothing could go into this apartment that didn’t complement the ceiling. The ceiling was black, so I could have black accents, but white and gold was all it could be.”
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