The interior designer Amy Lau’s Manhattan apartment, which she meticulously renovated and continued working on months before her death, is being sold by her estate.
The asking price for the home, a one-bedroom co-op on the fifth floor of Alwyn Court, an ornate prewar building at 180 West 58th Street, at Seventh Avenue, is $1.6 million, according to the listing agents, Emma Lester and Amanda Kahn of the Corcoran Group. Monthly maintenance is $2,104.
Ms. Lau died of cancer in January at the age of 56. She was a founder of the annual Design Miami fair, which ran in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach, and had a string of high-profile clients, including the fashion designer Elie Tahari and the media executive and Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. Her book, “Expressive Modern: The Interiors of Amy Lau,” published in 2011, showcased some of Ms. Lau’s interiors and the pieces she used in her work.
She bought the Midtown West apartment in April 2018 through an estate sale, paying $980,000, and moved in nearly a year and a half later. It was the first home purchase for Ms. Lau, a longtime renter, according to Sharon Bray, the business manager of Amy Lau Design, the firm Ms. Lau founded in 2001. Ms. Bray described the apartment as “her sanctuary.”
She “loved every piece she collected and curated in the space,” Ms. Bray said.
The 1,010-square-foot unit underwent a top-to-bottom renovation and restyling that lasted several years. When Ms. Lau bought the place, it hadn’t been updated since the 1980s and most of the original prewar details had already been stripped away.
“She put her own stamp on it,” said Ms. Lester, the listing agent, “and she put so much thought into every single detail. You can tell she poured her heart into it.”
Ms. Lau, known for the bold use of colors and textures in her interiors, designed the wallpaper for the foyer and bedroom and filled the apartment with vintage and contemporary pieces from admired artisans. These included a swirling Mozambique wood fireplace surround and black walnut cocktail table by the sculptor and woodworker Michael Coffey; a custom patchwork rug by the Texas-based company Kyle Bunting; and a bespoke armchair by the designer Vladimir Kagan.
She was particularly proud of the antique Jugendstil entry chandelier of brass and Loetz glass, Ms. Bray said in an email, “which set the look of the entire apartment.” (Some of the furnishings and décor, Ms. Lester said, will be available separately for sale, the chandelier included.)
Throughout the apartment are 10-foot-high ceilings and chevron-patterned oak flooring with a walnut inlay. Ms. Lau added custom lighting and installed plaster ceiling medallions in each room.
The home is entered through a spacious foyer, which was also used as a dining area. The space includes a large coat closet and is adorned with handcrafted, pastel watercolor wallpaper with gold metallic flecks.
Nearby is a Bulthaup-designed kitchen featuring marble countertops and walls, laminate cabinets and Gaggenau appliances. The bathroom is also clad in marble. Both rooms have brass fixtures.
Past the foyer is a spacious living room. Built-in shelving flanks a ventless fireplace with the Coffey sculptural surround, which also houses a hidden television.
“The living room, where she spent time with friends, was her favorite space,” Ms. Bray said. “The bedroom was also a special space to Amy.”
The oversize bedroom, wrapped in wallpaper inspired by the abstract artist Alma Thomas, is reachable from a small hallway near the bathroom as well as from the living room. There are ornamental balconies off both rooms.
“It has this very Old World feeling,” Ms. Lester said.
Alwyn Court was built in the early 1900s in a French Renaissance style and clad with elaborate terra-cotta ornamentation. The 12-story building is near Central Park and Carnegie Hall.
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