直擊Gerard Butler 家居設計

Actor Gerard Butler worked with architect Alexander Gorlin and film designer Elvis Restaino on his 3,300-square-foot loft in Manhattan. “We recreated things that came into Gerry’s life—from his travels in Europe or even from an old coffee shop in New York,” Restaino says.

Drawing Back the Curtain on the Actor’s Old-World Loft in Manhattan
Architecture by Alexander Gorlin Architects/Interior Design by Elvis Restaino
Text by Peter Haldeman/Photography by Durston Saylor
Portrait by Harry Benson

Thirteen-foot-tall mahogany doors with a knocker that could summon the dead. A ceiling fresco depicting the rape of Ganymede. Plaster walls chipped and mottled with age, massive columns supporting limestone lions, crystal chandeliers casting spidery shadows…. Medieval castle? Ancestral manor house? Try a two-story loft in the heart of New York’s ultratrendy Chelsea district. The doors alone are remarkable enough to stop the most jaded Manhattanite in his tracks: Who in the world lives here?

Why, King Leonidas of Sparta, who else? The place starts to make a little more sense when one considers that its owner is the actor Gerard Butler, and Gerard Butler is known for channeling such larger-than-life figures as the Spartan king, Attila the Hun, Dracula, the Phantom of the Opera and Beowulf. “I wanted something elegant and gorgeous and at the same time rather masculine and raw,” the actor declares, his Glasgow burr somehow enhancing the des cription. “I guess I would describe the apartment as bohemian old-world rustic château with a taste of baroque.”

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The theater. “This is the most intimate area of the loft,” Restaino says. Sofa and ottoman, ABC Carpet & Home.




The kitchen’s cabinetry and backsplash were fashioned from leftover flooring materials