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Couple create intimate home in a spacious New York loft, filled with treasured possessions
- Even with 2,500 sq ft of space, Janis Provisor and Brad Davis had to work out a spatial strategy when it came to decorating their Tribeca loft’s interior
- Furniture is clustered to create intimate areas, while an installed wall next to the kitchen creates a snug, partially enclosed lounge area
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Janis Provisor and Brad Davis are painters, designers and carpet makers. Their careers have spanned five decades and three continents. And all of this is reflected in the spacious, eclectic loft they share in New York.
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The couple moved into the Tribeca loft in 2002, when they returned to the United States from Hong Kong, where they had lived from 1993 and set up Fort Street Studio, an innovative carpet company that is the subject of their new book, A Tale of Warp and Weft.
At the time, the loft was owned by family friends who had left New York after 9/11.
“They asked if we wanted to rent the loft. And we did,” says Davis.
“Initially, it was designed by a young architect and the finishings are superb. The floors, the Venetian plaster, the exposed brick. We rented it for a number of years.
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“Then we ended up buying the loft – but only half. It was 5,000 square feet. We couldn’t afford to buy the whole thing, so together with an architect friend of ours we split it.”
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