STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Fashion designer Erin Beatty finds that renovating a West Village duplex for her family is a challenge that becomes an unexpected source of pleasure and creative renewal

Nancy Hass

THE END OF LAST YEAR was tough on Erin Beatty. She and her design partner, Max Osterweis, had to shut down Suno, their eight-year-old fashion label, whose fans included Michelle Obama, Sofia Coppola, and Michelle Williams. Seven months pregnant with her second child—and reeling from the presidential election—Beatty was awash in emotions and fears. “It was a very uncertain time,” she recalls. But there were two comforting developments: One, her son Esmond was born in January. Secondly, the West Village apartment she owns with her husband, Lex Sidon, a filmmaker and writer, emerged exactly as she had hoped it would from a fivemonth renovation overseen by Lara Apponyi and Michael Woodcock, the decorators behind the firm Work + Sea. While home redos are usually stressful, this one felt almost like a calming…

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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2017

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