Rental Revamp: A Designer and Her Filmmaker Boyfriend Make Their Brooklyn Loft Feel Like a Showroom

Kiki Goti and Vincent Staropoli combine a few clever paint jobs with a sprinkling of Goti’s polychrome object designs to evoke a southern European feel that reflects the couple’s roots—and doesn’t break their lease agreement.
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Inside a row of converted factory buildings in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, Kiki Goti and Vincent Staropoli’s vibrant apartment opens up to a bright living room with a wall of windows. Enough daylight streams into the modest space to create a New York loft version of indoor/outdoor Mediterranean living. Kiki, a designer from Thessaloníki, Greece, and Vincent, a Paris-born filmmaker whose family is Italian, wanted the look of their rental, with its high ceilings, white walls, and rough wooden floors, to reflect their Mediterranean backgrounds and feel influenced by the warmer climates of southern Europe—while staying within the limits of their lease.

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Stephen Zacks
Stephen Zacks is an advocacy journalist, architecture critic, urbanist, and organizer based in New York City.

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