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OCEANFRONT RESIDENCE

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The residence is situated on a high bluff overlooking the Pacific ocean. The building was designed to be used as a weekend vacation home, and will eventually be one of several residences on the oceanfront site. The design was strongly influenced by the panoramic views and outdoor experience offered by the unique site.

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BERGEN STREET TOWNHOUSE

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The Bergen Street Townhouse is a 20 foot wide by 40 foot deep Italianate brownstone located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope.

The house was completed gut renovated to create a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom house for a growing family with a rental apartment on the garden level.

All walls including structural walls were removed from the Parlor Level to create a completely open plan for Kitchen, Dining and Living. A large steel and glass window wall was inserted into the rear of the house to open the Parlor Level to a new patio and stairs that lead to the garden.

Design Team
Elizabeth Roberts, Josh Lekwa (Project Architect) Jessica Gould
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ELLE DECORATION FRANCE

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ELLE DECORATION FRANCE, September 2015

100 Square Meter Triplex--Welcome to Brooklyn in a typical "brownstone" occupied by a young couple.
Three dollhouse-sized floors optimized by architect Elizabeth Roberts of Ensemble Architecture

MONOCLE GUIDE TO COSY HOMES

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MONOCLE GUIDE TO COSY HOMES

PART 2: People
Build The Perfect Team
Whether it's an apartment in the heart of the city, a remote mountain cabin or a holiday house, finding the right architect for your new home - someone who can design it to your taste and specifications, ideally within budget - is crucial. We have talked to established and lesser-known architects from around the world and peeked into their key projects to show why we'd hire them to build our next home.

These people can also provide you with new ways of living. Whether that is prefab houses built with sturdy sustainable materials or multi-family residential projects that tackle densification issues in large urban centres, this range of developers and architects will make you see home-making in a new and dependable light...

ELIZABETH ROBERTS
Architect and Interior Designer
Preface: Elizabeth Roberts' refined personal aesthetic and thoughtful interiors hold serious sway, with a focus on understated and minimalist design...

Why we'd hire her:
Roberts pays attention to detail and sports a clean aesthetic but it is her commitment to fostering strong designer-client relationships that sets her apart. With this as a foundation, clients can trust in a first-rate result.

LORIMER STREET TOWNHOUSE

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The Lorimer Street Townhouse is a three-story, twenty-five foot wide, two-family house located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Every wall, ceiling, stair, floor and window of the house was replaced in the extensive renovation. The result is an open, loft-like home for a family of four. A custom, steel and solid wood tread stair divides the Parlor Level into a Living Room side at the street front and a Dining and Kitchen side at the rear of the building with garden access through 3 new, patio doors. Existing wood joists were exposed on the Parlor Level with insulation added to the underside of the floors above. Reclaimed floors compliment the existing joists and add to the rustic feel of this urban home.

Design Team
Elizabeth Roberts, Dennis Mendoza, Polly Horne, Jessica Gould
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JOURNEE - COLAB

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The Journee / COLAB space is located in a typical lower Manhattan office building. The program for the space was unusual as the client created a new business model requiring offices, library, classroom, kitchen, casual meeting spaces and a conference room.

The plan and all furnishings were considered for multiple uses. The layout and furniture are often rearranged for different events with unique requirements such as classes, catered parties, and cooking demonstrations.

This project was a full-service architecture and interiors project merging the two disciplines seamlessly to meet the client's expedited schedule.

Design Team
Elizabeth Roberts, Elliot Meier, Adrienne LaBelle


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LORIMER STREET TOWNHOUSE

PROSPECT PARK WEST TOWNHOUSE

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The Prospect Place Townhouse is a grand, 5 story, 5,200 SF Sandstone townhouse overlooking Prospect Park in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. Previous to the renovation the house had been owned by the same family for a century.

The architectural renovation was designed by the Red Hook based design build firm, MADE Architecture. Elizabeth Roberts Design assisted the homeowners with selecting the finishes and furniture in the house--including furniture, decorative light fixtures, stone and tile floors, countertops, tiles, plumbing fixtures, paint colors, wall paper and other accessories.

Elizabeth Roberts, Patrick Ryan (Project Manager)

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THE NEW YORK TIMES

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The New York Times - February 16, 2016
"James Truman, Condé Nast Alumnus, Is Now Editing Restaurants" by Jeff Gordinier

It would be an understatement to say that James Truman has given some thought to how his new restaurant, Nix, will look.

Mr. Truman, 57, who once oversaw magazines like Vogue, Glamour and GQ as the powerful editorial director of Condé Nast, is a believer in the cumulative effect of the most minuscule details. He has spent months with the chef John Fraser, the architect Elizabeth Roberts and the rest of the team behind Nix ruminating on everything from the presence of decorative juniper roots to the fit of the servers’ aprons to the way in which the establishment’s name will radiate from a sign.

“The blessing of the name is that it’s all straight lines,” he said the other day inside 72 University Place in Greenwich Village, a narrow space where Nix is scheduled to open on Feb. 29. “I’m fond of the N, the I and the X, because they’re all strong letters. They are very strong letters which we then want to make soft.”

To achieve this, Mr. Truman is going with a sign that uses amber and red neon (neon, said Mr. Truman, a British native, represents “the American vernacular”). But his design team is placing the neon behind a translucent Plexiglas scrim so it will have “a much more mysterious presence” from the sidewalk, he said.

While it’s probably facile to note that Mr. Truman seems to be orchestrating the entrance to Nix the way an editor would map out the cover of a magazine, the comparison is difficult to resist. Magazines and restaurants tend to succeed when they convey simultaneous signals of accessible warmth and exclusive cool, and Mr. Truman has fashioned a peripatetic career out of mastering the balance between those two temperatures.

Although it’s not widely publicized, Mr. Truman has been a restaurateur for a while now, having joined with the hotelier André Balazs to fine-tune the mission, hire chefs and map out the menus at Narcissa, in the East Village, and at the celebrity-clotted Chiltern Firehouse in London. He has also run the farm that shares land with Locusts-on-Hudson, an upstate estate owned by Mr. Balazs.

Nix, whose primary investor is Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, presents Mr. Truman with a gamble: He’s trying his hand at hospitality without one of Mr. Balazs’s properties as an anchor.

“He has this way of seeing what people want before they want it,” said Mr. Fraser, who is also the head chef at Narcissa and both proprietor and chef at Dovetail. When Mr. Fraser presented him with the concept for Nix — a vegetarian restaurant with a strong emphasis on the primordial pleasures of fire, as delivered by both a wok station and a tandoor in the kitchen — Mr. Truman’s response was: “’Yes, that’s exactly what the next move is.’”

Other New York restaurants, like Dirt Candy and Avant Garden, have been uprooting stubborn preconceptions about vegetarian cuisine, but Mr. Truman, drawing on his publishing experience, views the crowded field as a boon. “It’s always better to be in a genre where you’re not the only magazine,” he said. “Because it validates the idea.”

Mr. Fraser, 40, who grew up in California and is known as a pioneer of vegetable-fixated cooking, gets visibly amped up when he talks about the Nix menu, with its shiitake cacio e pepe, and its carrots seared in the wok in the style of Chinese cashew chicken.

He will not use meat or fish, nor any stocks or fats derived from them. But he will cook with cheese and butter. “There’s a moment of sin, even though it’s quite virtuous,” Mr. Fraser said.

It’s hard to imagine Mr. Truman, whose hair retains the tousled, finger-combed quality of his wonder-boy years, swooning over a sinless restaurant. In casual conversation, he gives the impression of having lived a very full life; his musings are peppered with references to practicing Zen on a California mountaintop with Leonard Cohen and drinking wine in Northern California with Francis Ford Coppola, for whose company he was a board member.

Mr. Truman traces his interest in the cultural significance of food back to Oundle, a boarding school in England where, as a student, he wrote a newspaper column about the delights of hot-plate gastronomy. “The food in the refectory there was always disgusting, so I cooked my own food,” Mr. Truman said. “I remember a cheese and tomato crepe.”

His palate expanded as his parents tugged him around Europe on vacations. There were the featherweight cheese puffs known as gougères at a Michelin-starred restaurant on the French Riviera; there was pizza in Italy. “The first pizza I had was on the waterfront in Positano,” he said. “That was astonishing. I don’t think I’d ever tasted anything so good in my life.”

At Condé Nast, when he ascended in 1994 from editor in chief of Details magazine to editorial director of the company, Mr. Truman stage-managed countless aspects of the Frank Gehry-designed cafeteria. “I came to enjoy that at least as much as I enjoyed working on the magazines,” he said.

Asked about Mr. Truman’s expanding foray into hospitality, Ravi DeRossi, who also ambled into the restaurant business after pursuing a different professional path (as an abstract painter), said he did not believe in “an exact science to opening a restaurant in New York City.”

“Honestly, I think there’s a lot of dumb luck involved,” said Mr. DeRossi, who owns and runs 15 bars and restaurants, including Avant Garden. “At least that’s what I owe to my success to — that and approaching each new venture as a piece of art rather than a business.”

Mr. Truman has strong ideas about the visual side of Nix. “It began with knowing what we didn’t want,” he said, by which he meant “one of the Brooklyn-style restaurants full of reclaimed lumber, and servers who look like agrarians from the 19th century.” (On the monotonously facial-haired species of the hipster: “I wonder how their wives and girlfriends recognize them and don’t wind up going home with someone else by mistake.”)

In his mind, Brooklyn and bearded are out; Californian and hippie-willowy are in. “I felt this should have a feminine energy,” he said. “The current style of restaurants feels incredibly dated to me.”

Diners at Nix will encounter a distinct intention, he hopes, in even the smallest of gestures. On each table will be paper flowers from John Derian in the East Village. Sparkling and still water will simply arrive, in tandem and sans interrogation.

“We hate that first question, ‘Do you want tap, still or sparkling?’” he said. “Let’s move on to the stuff we care about.”

Mr. Truman takes a keen interest in what’s expressed between the lines and kept in the background, which makes him wary in a world of celebrity chefs.

“My opinion,” he said, “is that chefs replaced magazine editors as the most culturally overrated people in the world.”


Better Homes & Gardens - China

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BETTER HOMES & GARDENS - CHINA, January 2016

SOUTHOLD HOUSE

PACIFIC STREET TOWNHOUSE

SCHERMERHORN STREET TOWNHOUSE

GARDEN PLACE TOWNHOUSE


2ND STREET TOWNHOUSE

S. ELLIOTT PLACE TOWNHOUSE

UNION STREET TOWNHOUSE

WILLIAMSBURG JEWELERY STORE

NIX

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NIX is a 2,000 SF restaurant located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village strategically close to the Green Market in Union Square where ingredients are regularly sourced. The renovation was a complete gut and every detail of the space was considered and designed with great care to create a completely unique space for a unique restaurant type.

Services included design and fabrication of a custom steel and glass storefront, several custom light fixtures including the juniper burl ledge lamps, the green ball lamps at the railroad booth tables and the bar lights that incorporate vintage, glass shades. Custom banquettes, custom, reclaimed wood table tops, and custom steel and glass shelves are included in the long list of custom-designed elements in this restaurant. Additionally, walls and ledges were hand-troweled and entry tile mosaic pattern was hand-placed with tile selected and cracked by designers.

Design collaborators included Leanne Shapton who hand-painted the bathroom walls with turnip and tomato blocks and Leni Schwendinger who designed the neon lighting element of the custom, metal sign band.

This project was a full-service architecture and interiors project merging the two disciplines seamlessly to meet the client's high expectations for a one-of-a-kind restaurant environment.

Design Team
Elizabeth Roberts, Elliot Meier, Jessica Keenan, Adrienne LaBelle


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