When Jordan Williams purchased his diamond-in-the-rough Greenwich Village apartment, a 900-square-foot one-bedroom duplex with a massive terrace in Manhattan, his mother gave him some helpful advice: hire an interior designer. “It was a blank canvas, the outdoor space was just totally abandoned, and she said, ‘You don’t understand the challenges that you have,’” Williams remembers. “She was right.”
Williams began scrolling through the AD PRO Directory in search of someone to reimagine his home. “Alvin [Wayne]’s work really stood out,” Williams says. “I found it to be really inventive for its use of color and texture. And it’s bold. I have collected art and old objects over time, so I thought that his approach gelled with the things that I already had and the things I was interested in.”
Wayne was immediately on board. He was impressed by Williams’s belongings, like a graphic, sewn-canvas Ethan Cook piece and a vintage Giuseppe Rivadossi coffee table, and he knew exactly how to make them sing. “He wanted it to feel designed, but still comfortable; he wanted it to be colorful, but not crazy,” Wayne recalls. “I knew I could push it a little bit and have fun with it. And I knew he would really appreciate the pieces that I wanted to pair with what he already owned.”
