10/17/2026
When designer Nick Olsen and his partner, Sam Bowman, found a one-in-a-million Manhattan apartment, they knew it deserved a dramatic turn worthy of a Broadway production. “I can appreciate
quiet decorating, but it’s just not who I am at my core,” says Olsen. ”I always want to embrace the theatrical.” Take, for example, the entryway, where he draped striped silk taffeta curtains around the entire room, painted the ceiling black, and hung a sculptural white shell pendant.
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Photography by REID ROLLS INTERIORS