Vancouver's "lush" Stanley Park provided the cues for a painterly green and gold mural in this New York apartment, which local studio Stadt Architecture has renovated for a Canadian couple.

Located in the city's Chelsea neighbourhood, the 550-square-foot (51-square-metre) post-war apartment belongs to clients who spend most of their time in Vancouver. The project is called Chelsea Pied-à-Terre after the French phrase used to describe a small city escape away from the owner's permanent residence. Pied-à-terre translates as "foot on the ground".

Stadt Architecture designed the hand-painted mural on the wall behind the bed in response to the client's brief to "bring some of the lush natural landscape from southwestern Canada to mitigate downtown Manhattan's concrete landscape". Based on the hues in a photograph of a dense wood in Vancouver's Stanley Park ? a large public green space close to the city's downtown area ? it features a green backdrop covered with large trickles of gold-leaf paint.

"We couldn't literally accommodate a green living wall into the living areas," said Stadt Architecture in a statement. "However, we reconsidered 'landscape' as a custom hand-painted wall covering."
"By using a photo of Vancouver's Stanley Park showing a golden sun streaming through a lush evergreen landscape, we developed our wall covering, which is a translation of this image ? a gold leafed field that melds into a series of ri...