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Manhattan edition
How the vocabulary lands on New York, NY homes.
1930s LA glamour, restored — lacquered emerald walls, fluted everything, brass.
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Manhattan is dominated by Pre-war townhouses (1900–1940), brownstones, mid-century towers. The Hollywood Regency vocabulary maps onto that stock cleanly — the material palette and proportions sit comfortably against the existing context rather than reading as imported.
Humid continental — cold winters, hot humid summers. That shapes the material defaults — what weathers well, what stays dry, what holds up to the local envelope load — and the Hollywood Regency vocabulary is one of the cleaner fits.
Manhattan construction costs run 110% above the national average. A full exterior remodel in the Hollywood Regency style typically lands in the mid-six-figure range here; a cosmetic refresh lands well below that. Run a free Chalais audit for a calibrated number against your specific home.
Manhattan renovation is largely interior-only — facades are governed by landmark commissions in most desirable neighborhoods. Pre-war pre-war apartments and townhouses run the show; Steven Gambrel and Daniel Romualdez set the contemporary interior vocabulary, while Robert A.M. Stern's classicism still defines new construction.
Hollywood Regency on Chalais draws from Kelly Wearstler, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Dorothy Draper lineage. That lineage translates well to Manhattan's context — the housing era and climate both reward the vocabulary's material instincts.
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