Photos: Ruthie Darling/BORO APRI L 2 0 1 7 I BOROMAG.COM 53 environmentally friendly because we are not as wasteful.” I asked Harvey how he knew how to build the bed. “Well, at work I’m a fabricator and chief installer for Jeff Koons,” he said. “I make things all day. We also watched a lot of YouTube videos for design ideas for the bed. I also made a 3-D model of the entire apartment before we moved into it so we could see what we had room for.” (Such a great idea!) “I built one closet for us,” Harvey continued, “but most of that space is for Lauren, so my clothing is rolled up into these boxes. I just used L brackets and shelves. Nothing is permanently installed, to make sure we get our security deposit back!” In the kitchen, a breakfast bar is set atop some Ikea cabinets, creating a kitchen prep area, a breakfast bar and a pantry all in one. Appliances are neatly stacked on top of each other, rather than spread along the work surface, adding to the streamlined feel. As we wandered through the apartment, I had to ask about the drawing resting on an easel in the corner of the living room. “This is a pre-Renaissance Italian drawing method called silverpoint,” Redding explained. “You use a piece of silver wire to make a drawing. It’s very exacting. You are limited to the tip of the wire, so you build the drawing up through tiny, tiny lines. I’m pretty neurotic, so it works. I try to make portraits of my Cuban family to memorialize them, and Brett deals with more monumental issues concerning humanity. Most of the art in the apartment is made by us and our artist friends.” All around the space, there are mini sculptures made by Harvey, but in the studio, an incredible, life-size piece is being worked on. I asked Harvey to tell me about his art. “All of my work is about trying to figure out my place in the world,” he said. “Exploring ideas of masculinity and what it means to be a man. The frustrations that exist being young. It's difficult trying to get your life off the ground. I’m inspired by the sculptures of ancient Greece. A lot of them are lacking a certain humanity. I am trying to take that language of form and insert vulnerability and intellectual feeling about what it means to be a man now. How to balance all of those things.” Balance is the key to it all in this cozy little home. With imagination and creativity, Redding and Harvey have created two spaces in one. The space maybe small, but the impact is huge.
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