Irwin Weiner Interiors​

​IWI specializes in tailored residential interiors that reflect a client's unique personality.

This spacious apartment in Manhattan's CPW district overlooks the Park and reflects a bespoke environment.

Select pieces from the clients' old apartment were still looking fresh and timeless; they quickly found new places of importance in a refreshed design scheme. Art deco details and a new fireplace design unified the bones of the large living room - dining room and set a theme for artistic, colorful self-expression throughout the apartment. The clients' sculptural creations blend harmoniously with the sculptural statements made by the furnishings.

​Irwin Weiner Interiors turned a large antique barn space in New Jersey's prime horse country into a warm, inviting weekend retreat.

The challenge with barn homes is to properly define areas within the large open mass of space. So many barn homes wind up being a large open-plan hot mess, but this IWI-decorated space exudes purpose and confidence.

​When a portion of the grounds of the former Harry Winston estate in Scarsdale, NY subdivided into luxury new construction homes, IWI was tapped to turn the largest residence into a glittering jewel. The homeowners have an important glass collection, and that provided the home's main theme, starting with the first impression: a double-volume entry foyer with a Dale Chihuly chandelier, mirrored in a bespoke IWI mosaic tile floor. 

"Updated deco" set the theme for the sculptural furnishings, cabinetry, lighting, built-ins, and woodwork. Highlights: the double-volume library with its bespoke limestone fireplace surround and deco chandelier, the den with its deep coffered ceiling, and the dining room with its walls of unexpected horizontal stripes.

The traditional-with-a-twist interior is timeless, and boasts as many reflective surfaces as possible to give a nod to the home's passionate glass collectors, e.g., a shiny rare marble surface in the master bath or a custom suspended glass shelving system in the massive kitchen/ The house, however, is further layered with unexpected bursts of color and pattern. Everything is calm and comfortable and shiny on the surface, yet each space presents details that surprise and engage, like the facets of a Winston diamond.

​IWI had the pleasure of designing interiors for an effervescent young couple in Long Island with a passion for corporate real estate, modern art, and photography.

With young children and countless friends and relatives in the mix, we worked with our clients to create a relaxed, comfortable, almost-California home that showcases important video installations and contemporary photography while maintaining the primary purposes of easy-breezy everyday living and lots of entertaining.

The furnishings throughout the house are sleek French deco finds from our trips to Paris antique stores and flea markets. The clean lines avoid competition with the works of art, and the overall effect is harmonious and relaxed, with a frisson of elegance.

The Country French kitchen and breakfast room invite everyone into the heart of the home for noshing, homework, and catching up on everyone's busy day.​

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IWI created an updated country home in Bucks County, PA from a 1900 farmhouse. The historic structure - the inner construction of the original home is made of decommissioned barge boards from Delaware Canal boats - saw a complete one-year makeover that involved removing and reworking all surfaces of the house, from each fireplace and wall to the floors and ceilings.  We also took off an enclosed front porch and created a late-Victorian mahogany porch, designing it as an outdoor room.

The kitchen is a show-stopper with a verde laguna marble focus wall behind the gourmet range and contrasting granite backsplashes and countertops.  Travertine marble floors in both the kitchen and step-down dining room provide contrast and texture to the wide-plank, beveled, wire-brushed antique white oak living room floor.

The living room features a Venetian plaster treatment on both walls and ceilings. Antiques and mid-century furniture form an eclectic mix that underscores the comfort and sophistication of this rural retreat.

Two small front bedrooms were turned into a master bedroom suite with walk-in closet and en-suite bath. Irwin created a tray ceiling in the bedroom by carving out unused attic space, and the ceiling in the master bath dramatically follows the roofline, soaring to an impossible height. 

​IWI was asked to create an interior filled with relaxed luxury in Scarsdale, NY, and it became one of Irwin's signature interiors.

Art and scupture - check.

Beautiful flooring and carpets - check.

Soaring room heights and unusual tray ceilings, arches, and other architectural details - check.

Fabulous moldings and custom-designed fireplace surrounds - check.

Mix of timeless modern and deco furnishings upholstered in warm dreamscape color palettes - and check.

Walking into the foyer is like stepping into an art gallery, with the overscaled parquet floor mirrored in the white-on-white art installation of Xawery Wolski's terracotta cross sculptures. ​IWI's architectural details work in overdrive, paring down the enfilade layout of the hallway into the living room by bringing the eye into focus through shimmering glass transom/surrounds, a dramatic telescoping from extreme height in the entry hall to the intimacy of the rest of the home.

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This Westchester townhome showcases the homeowners' contemporary tastes in furniture and art. The interior scheme was designed to show off their collection. Case in point: the clean geometric lines of the furnishings and rug in the dining room are perfect counterpoints for important works by Victor Vasarely. 

IWI changed the layout so that the front door didn't open right into the living room. We added a partition-wall with a custom glass installation designed with Mondrian-inspired lines by Irwin and imagined by noted stained glass artist Val Sigstedt. Natural light streams through the foyer, warming the creams and blues that dominate the living area.

Visual surprises punctuate the clean interior, such as the deep inset wood framings and mirror reinforced with rebar in the master bedroom sitting area.  

Since this home is in the NY watershed region (very protected), new building was permitted only on the footprint of the existing original house from the 19th century. Canadian cedar was logged and fabricated according to the specifications of noted luxury log home architect Murray Arnott. Each log was numbered and trial-assembled in a large airplane-hanger type structure near Vancouver before being shipped to the NY job site for assembly. Logs came pre-drilled for electrical outlets, plumbing, and other infrastructure.

Construction began on the first-floor great room/living room, a huge semi-circular, double-volume space with a massive stone fireplace. In the photo you can see how the log beams are going up to form the unique roofline slope around the shell of the fireplace. 

Our clients' luxe cabin sits beautifully between two creeks, just at the fork where they join into a single stream. The original stone bridge to the property is shown here, a true antique. During construction, the cabin experienced serious flooding during the spring thaw and major engineering intervention was needed. Two massive French drains now help to channel water runoff and stream overflow. Because there is so much snow in the winter, no gutters were put on the roofs and heated stone patios were built surrounding the cabin to melt off the snowfall.

Building a log cabin was a no-brainer for this particular site. Surrounded by state forest land, in the heart of a protected watershed area, and at the confluence of two beautiful streams (one pictured here in the foreground), this weekend home is a natural wonder.

The large, but welcoming entry foyer has a 2.5 volume ceiling. On the first floor is the entryway, the great room/living room, kitchen, den, library, mudroom, and attached four-car garage. The second floor has a master bedroom suite and three guest bedrooms. The third floor boasts two tree-top bedrooms.

The great room is horseshoe shaped, wrapping around a large central fireplace. Furniture groupings encourage conversation, sharing, and entertaining. Comfort was the primary consideration for the family in their special woodland retreat.

The native stone fireplace provides the warm heart of the living room, and it's a beauty! Comfortable seating emphasizes the tailored, yet rustic tone of this log home's decor. The sofas are from Profiles.

The dining room area is adjacent to the central stone fireplace in the cabin's great room/living room. In our photo, we emphasize the sweeping circular form of the space and the elegant simplicity of the furnishings and window treatments. The "bones" of the structure - the massive logs, stone details, and warm wood floors - already speak volumes.

Note how the logs in the kitchen area boast a lighter, almost pickled stain when compared to the other parts of the cabin. Isn't this a great entertaining and cooking space? The large butcher block counter on the island is a great prep area, and the latest industrial appliances make this a dream kitchen.

A fisheye-lens view of the kitchen and eat-in breakfast and luncheon area shows off the beautiful light-stained logs that separate this room from the rest of the cabin. The flow is perfect for entertaining and cooking, with all appliances, including the beautifully integrated Sub-Zeros, contributing to a happy family gathering spot.

Our second-floor landing photo shows off the beautiful cedar logs and warm stain that runs throughout most of the cabin. Note the beautiful cast iron railings that were customized for this project. Also notice that each stair is an individually carved log! IWI fabricated individual oval carpets and affixed one to each stair with oversized brass nailheads. The stair's focus on the log construction made it impractical to use a continuous stair tread, and this was a great solution.

The view of the master bedroom suite reflects the homeowners' taste for comfort and simplicity. Few furnishings detract from the beauty of the views (when the drapes are opened, of course) and the elegance of the suite's stone fireplace. This room is the perfect romantic getaway from family and guests.

​Who knew that Irwin didn't like his 2010 Hamptons Designer Showhouse upstairs bedroom assignment? Well, at first he thought it would be no fun. After all, a bed takes up all the attention and space, and he wanted to show something more original. The result: IWI's upstairs sitting room, a redesigned bedroom/bathroom space that featured a faux fireplace (surround from Chesney's UK) topped off with a wire sculpture by Rodger Stevens and an eclectic mix of furniture ranging from a mid-century modern orange sofa by Dunbar to folk art antiques.

And lots of art and sculpture, a layered trademark of IWI. Other layering came from the F. Schumacher cream mohair blend sheer drapes and the printed white-on-tan patterned linen wainscoting held up with overscaled hammered nailheads from Houles. 

And even the color scheme approached the traditional new construction space in a fresh way. ​The sitting room's walls were two-tone: ligher and darker lilac-grays (from Ralph Lauren paints). Gray-mauve mohair South African rug from Sacco Carpet.​

The creative touch, however, was the origami paper chandelier that Irwin created from $15 in craft materials, lots of staples, and an $80 pendant fixture from Home Depot. ​

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