Manhattan is really two cities of windows. There are the prewar buildings of the Upper East and West Sides, Carnegie Hill, and the Village, with their tall, narrow windows and nine-to-eleven-foot ceilings. And there are the new glass towers of Hudson Yards, Midtown, and the Financial District, with floor-to-ceiling walls of glass and brutal sun. We have spent 30 years dressing both, and the approach is completely different for each.
Prewar co-ops and condos
Tall ceilings mean more fabric and taller treatments, which is why floor-to-ceiling drapery transforms a prewar living room. Many of these buildings are co-ops with board rules about installation, freight elevators, and contractor insurance. We work in these buildings constantly and handle the protocols, so the process is smooth and the result fits the architecture's warmth.
A prewar window dressed correctly looks like the building was designed around it. Get the height wrong and the whole room feels off.
— Glamour Decorating, from 30 years of NYC-area installs
New construction glass towers
Walls of south and west-facing glass mean glare on every screen and serious afternoon heat. This is where motorized solar shades earn their keep, often layered with a blackout in the bedroom. Centralized Somfy control lets an entire wall respond to one button or a sunrise schedule. Clean, architectural, and invisible when up.
Made nearby, installed by our own team
Everything is fabricated in our Brooklyn workroom, a short trip across the bridges, and installed by our own crew, not subcontractors. For Manhattan that means tighter scheduling, fewer building headaches, and one accountable team from measurement to final walk-through.