Recent RIBA royal gold medal awardee, David Adjaye, and luxury British automaker, Aston Martin, have come together to design five luxury residences for David Adjaye’s first skyscraper, 130 William, in New York. But this collaboration offers more than a tastefully-furnished luxury interior for future residents: it also includes a special-edition Aston Martin DBX custom-designed by Sir David Adjaye himself.
The five residences will be located on the 59th and 60th floors of the 244-metre-tall residential tower under construction in Manhattan and will combine the ethos of Aston Martin’s elegant design and dedicated craftmanship with Adjaye’s bold vision evident in every detail.
“The 130 William Aston Martin homes have been touched in a very particular way that merges our design sensibilities. Together with the limited edition SUVs that come with these units, we’ve created a truly unique signature that blends our two disciplines,” said Adjaye.
Differing from the other homes in the 242-unit tower, these five will be decorated with materials, textiles and furniture sourced from the Aston Martin Home Collection by the Italian manufacturer Formitalia, with additional touches by Adjaye.
Residents will be greeted at the entry hallway with a bronze cross-hatch design, a signature of the Aston Martin brand, that will go over dark Adjaye-designed wallpaper. A large arched smoked-glass mirror by Aston Martin’s design team will hang on the wall, as a reference to the arched windows of the skyscraper. Renderings show these windows will flood daylight into the grand lounge and dining room, whose furnishings will include leather, metal and fabric chairs curated by Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s Chief Creative Officer, and Sir David Adjaye, and which are intended to draw on the aesthetic of Aston Martin car interiors.
An open-plan kitchen adjoining the living room will have rich materials like blackened-oak Italian cabinetry, marble countertops from Italy’s Apuan Alps and a cantilevered Nero Marquina marble top.
In the main bathroom, dark Italian Salvatori will be carved into a bathtub and double vanity sinks while secondary bathrooms incorporate Grigio Versilia marble and Bianco Carrera marble. Design details in the main bedroom will include Formitalia furniture and a custom cashmere headboard.
Residents will also be able to turn one of the rooms in the two- or three-bedroom homes into a racing simulator, an office and library space or a bedroom. The racing simulator will be made in partnership with British technology company Curv Racing Simulators. Each residence will also have an expansive outdoor space with bespoke slatted screens to divide up lounging areas.
First unveiled in 2017, the 130 William is a 66-storey skyscraper in Downtown Manhattan that Adjaye has designed with local firm Hill West Architects for developer Lightstone. It will have a textural hand-cast concrete exterior to complement the materiality of the surrounding historic, brick commercial buildings.
The special-edition DBX’s highly crafted interiors and custom paintwork have a strong synergy with the building’s architecture, evoking the materials, textures and atmosphere of 130 William. Its interior features real stone accents, with Grey “Pietra D’Avola” marble inlays matched with satin walnut wood. Its seats and steering wheel are covered with Aston Martin’s traditional hand-stitched leather in Parliament Green to match the walls of the simulator room option.
The five Aston Martin Residences include two penthouses for sale at $11,500,000 and $10,500,000, and three loggia residences priced from $3,985,000, $5,985,000 and $10,000,000.
Source: World Architecture