Actress Diane Kruger has picked up a loft apartment in a historical Tribeca building. The ecologically relevant design of the repurposed 19th century industrial building may have been a selling feature for the actress, who has put up a green-leaning home in West Hollywood owned with ex Joshua Jackson for $6 million.
The apartment uses materials that appeal to the eye and the conscience, too: reclaimed oak, sustainably forested cedar. Materials also suggest substance in the most fundamental manner, with exposed brick (echoing her former apartment in the East Village), slab marble, and a mix of woodgrain, especially in kitchen and baths. The master suite features a bath very much in keeping with contemporary luxury residential fashion; marble basins, floors and walls, brass fixtures, woodgrain vanity. The look is very modern, a little chilly, with a good mix of textures.
The apartment’s lines are clean and very modern, and lighting is contemporary; no kitchen pendant series is not a bad thing at all, and places the emphasis on owner-supplied atmospherics. Essentially, this is a mix of Eastern-influenced interior design and classic Village aesthetics, with some luxe tossed in for good measure. Appealing, nicely executed, and without the distractions presented by many other buildings with units in this price range.
The building features a vertical landscaped installation in the lobby; a plane of green, a garden panel. Very cool.
Diane Kruger’s lead in the German film ‘In the Fade’ brought her the Best Actress award at Cannes. The cosmopolitan actress also appears in a French language film appearing this year, ‘Tout Nous Sépare.’
