House Beautiful - NYC Apartment
AUGUST 2020
Forget the build-it-yourself bookshelves and cookie-cutter wall art—when you're cousins with Next Wave designer Caroline Rafferty, your first solo New York City apartment is bound to be anything but basic.
"It was her first place in the city without a roommate and she really wanted to decorate it her way," says Rafferty of the two-bedroom Tribeca apartment that her younger cousin, an art history graduate who had recently moved to the city, had enlisted her to turn into a proper home. "She was ready to do something glam but it still had to be fresh and not too formal—and she wanted to take some risks."