“I do not want our house undertaking genuinely significantly,” says David Karp of his newly renovated Brooklyn home—expressing a luxury afforded to individuals with the means to do whatever they want. Karp, the precocious (born in 1986) founder of the blogging platform, Tumblr, and, presumably, the globe’s subsequent very younger tech billionaire, tends to make his residence in an “open and truthful” industrial loft across the river from Manhattan—eschewing the über-sleek, luxury large-rise with panoramic views anticipated from a technologist with an eye on the future.
Of course, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, possessing extended ceded its counter-cultural credentials to bourgeois restaurants and new developments, isn’t exactly a remote outpost. Nonetheless, Karp sought an old residence with soul, and acquired it in spades—albeit a single certain overseen by seasoned architectural hands. Outdated and re-purposed parts (reclaimed oak the constructing’s unique concrete and exposed brick), utilitarian touches (exposed pipes and ducts), and mindfully edited furnishings undertaking an picture a lot more akin to that of 20th Century New York artist than 21st Century New York technologist—which, we suspect, is specifically how David Karp desires it.
Images: New York Circumstances
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