Steven Hammel has transformed his Lower East Side apartment into a version of his Minnesota childhood home. DHWendyGoodman reports 📷: Stephen Kent Johnson
says, as we sit by the cozy imitation hearth in his living room with a view of the East River that people would pay a fortune for further uptown. It includes the Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg bridges, and his bedroom overlooks a bend in the river called Corlears Hook. It somehow seems, despite its concrete-and-steel urbanity, like the country.
After studying graphic design and illustration in Minnesota, Hammel came to New York 34 years ago and lived in tenements in the East Village before finding this place. “The apartment was all white when I got it,” Hammel notes. “It evolved over the years. The first thing I painted was the red-brick wall in the kitchen.”
“The art on the living-room walls is a combination of Early American wall décor that I have collected and gifts from friends who see it in vintage shops. The three-dimensional plastic art was made by three companies in the 1950s through the ’70s: Burwood, Syroco, and Sexton. Most I found on eBay. The artworks I painted on the wall just add to the Early American theme.
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