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Street-level urban architecture featuring a geometric concrete building with horizontal planes, yellow taxi and dark vehicle at crosswalk, surrounded by mixed-height buildings by Roman and Williams.
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Roman and Williams

Design FirmEst. 2002

Buildings and interiors studio founded by Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, former Hollywood production designers. Their atmospheric, materially rich work defined a generation of New York interiors — the Ace Hotel New York, the Standard High Line's Boom Boom Room, La Mercerie, and the British Galleries at the Met.

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Projects

  1. British Galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    2020

    Cultural · Upper East Side, Manhattan

  2. Ace Hotel New York

    2009

    Hospitality · NoMad, Manhattan

  3. La Mercerie & Roman and Williams Guild

    2018

    Restaurant / Retail · SoHo, Manhattan

    Café, gallery, and shop under one roof.

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