1 - This girl is awesome. 2 - Her parents are complete and total idiots. Cassidy George, a 19-year-old art student at New York University, is taking this principle even further in Manhattan. With help from her parents—her father Eric is an investor and CEO of Omega Hospital in Louisiana—she purchased a “very regular” two-bedroom downtown apartment in May for $2.775 million. Then Ms. George got creative. Enlisting the services of interior designer Francisca Trujillo, she painted the apartment almost entirely black, including the exposed brick. Aiming for “an ’80s-reminiscent, garage-rock aesthetic,” she hired street artists to “vandalize” her elevator door and cover the foyer with a floor-to-ceiling graffiti installation using abstracted images from a box of her keepsakes, from Ms. George’s face to Jack Nicholson in “The Shining.” When the bathroom light is on, its door lights up with an image of a man urinating. Ms. George’s agent, Ande Sedwick of Town Residential, said her “jaw dropped” when she saw the redo, adding that it is very difficult to remove black paint from exposed brick. “That resale is going to take a very unique buyer,” she said.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:29:43 +0000