An interior design project of a massive duplex space in Manhattan, just steps from the Hudson River, with a price tag we guesstimate to be somewhere near US $10 million, is challenging yet appealing to any designer.

Add to the mix the fact that one of the homeowners also owns one of New York?s most prestigious and largest antique dealerships specializing in Scandinavian furnishings, and you have yet another challenge ? and a delicious opportunity.
This is the home of Jill Dienst, owner of Dienst + Dotter Antikviteter who before starting the dealership worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, antiquaire Didier Aaron, and decorator Jacques Grange antique, and her investor husband Dan, the former CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
It is a sublime example of the intricate balance between what to include and what to leave out.
London-based, British designer, John Pawson and Jill Dienst have created an exquisite display of what is not so much minimalism as it is reductivism in a literal sense: Leaving out everything that does not need to be there in order to create an inimitably personal environment that only this home can have.
There is an almost eerie sense of emptiness and open space, a very Scandinavian feature indeed. The pristine living area, for example, has white walls, floor, ceiling and window treatments augmented with the sculptural shapes of a white vintage Philip Arctander armchair, a white sofa by Stephen Sills and a free-form Joris Laaman cocktai...