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This Romantic Downtown Loft Is the Perfect Blend of Minimalist and Maximalist

Elizabeth Baudouin and Natalie Shirinian make the perfect couple.

This Romantic Downtown Loft Is the Perfect Blend of Minimalist and Maximalist
Alec Kugler

We’ve met a lot of creative power couples in our day, but even amongst that excellent company, Elizabeth Baudouin and Natalie Shirinian stand out. Between the two of them, they’re a filmmaker, author, and they run NES Creative, a creative services agency for top talent in art, design, and culture (you might recognize their client—and all the lighting in their apartment—from this feature with Apparatus), and that creativity shows in their Tribeca loft.

With dark, moody walls, rose-print wallpaper, brass and marble accents, and an insanely cute Japanese Chin named Toni Deville (her Instagram is @thedevillewearsprada), the space is capital-R Romantic. It’s also incredibly comfortable and warm—much like its inhabitants.

After munching on popcorn and pastries and spending a lot of time taking snaps of Toni (BTW, Japanese Chins were bred to live in a kimono sleeve, and if that doesn’t make you believe in miracles, we don’t know what will), we were ready to start planning BFF tattoos with the couple.

Click through to read all about how they met, how they blend their design sensibilities, and how they plan on spending Valentine’s Day.


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“There is a Joan of Arc print painting that a friend of mine found for me in L.A. from her travels and she was like, ‘Since you share the same birthday as her, January 6th, I found this for you,’ it’s really old and kinda burnt and torn up. She has a great vintage and antique store in L.A. and so she gifted that to me. That goes everywhere! I really, really, really love it. The painting next to it is by a photographer, Martyn Thompson, who is also great. He does textiles so he has wall coverings and wallpaper and all that. He gifted that to us as well. Those are really special.” —NS

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