A Bibliophile Couple’s Brooklyn Apartment Finds a Smart Storage Solution for More Than 1,000 Books
Design-build firm Spot Lab reimagine an old 980-square-foot corner unit with birch-plywood built-ins for the family’s home library and a U-shaped banquette for entertaining.
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You know a renovation is getting serious when you have to buy a commercial building to get a space large enough to make the custom millwork. That was what Tessa French and Zeb Burge, the couple behind design-build firm Spot Lab, found themselves doing in the spring of 2021 when they signed on to reimagine a 980-square-foot apartment on the top floor of a 1953 cooperative building in Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace neighborhood.
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Jenny Xie
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Jenny Xie is the author of the novel Holding Pattern, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. She’s received fellowships from Bread Loaf, Yaddo, and MacDowell, among other organizations.
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