It is not easy to make Wall Street feel domestic. One Wall Street, Ralph Walker’s 1931 Art Deco landmark, was conceived on a monumental scale. Inside one of its residences, Yellow House Architects has taken the opposite approach, introducing softness, texture and just enough eccentricity to make a polished Manhattan apartment feel personal.

The 2,500 sq ft home draws on the building’s decorative legacy without attempting to recreate it. Instead, the architects have picked up on its curves and material richness, translating them through beige suede wallcoverings, black shagreen, burl wood and handwoven silk rugs. Natural light does much of the remaining work. Tall windows allow it to shift across reflective surfaces throughout the day, subtly changing the character of the rooms.

There is restraint here, but not uniformity. In the dining room, a custom burl wood table by Adam Wilk Inc is paired with R&Y Augousti’s black shagreen Melting chairs and the graphic geometry of a Phase chandelier from Gestalt New York. Nearby, an Armona coffee table by Greenapple sits beneath an abstract work by American artist William McLure.

Elsewhere, the mood becomes softer. A custom sofa upholstered in caramel mohair by Schumacher is joined by a Royère sconce sourced from Edition Modern and handmade zebra hide cushions by Forsyth. Rather than adhering to a single period or design language, the apartment brings together pieces with different origins and personalities. It is this looseness that prevents the interiors from feeling overly resolved.

The quieter rooms continue the material conversation. A custom shearling chaise sits alongside a sculptural 1980s brass table by Arthur Court, while Valeria Nascimento’s delicate Blossom installation, sourced through Atelier Courbet, appears to scatter across a bedroom wall. Plaster lamps by Regina Andrew add another chalky, tactile surface.

There are moments of humour too. In one room, a grasscloth ceiling by Thibaut provides the backdrop for Avantgarden’s colourful Rainbow leather chandelier, a WNG chair from Gestalt New York and an unexpectedly charming leather giraffe by Omersa.

The result respects the gravitas of its address without becoming beholden to it. Yellow House Architects has allowed the Art Deco architecture to provide the history, while giving the interior something equally important: a life of its own.