Late-night talk show hosts, they’re saddled with impossibly small kitchens just like us. When Seth Meyers and his wife, Alexi Ashe, moved into their West Village apartment, they were required to work with their prewar building’s wet/dry restrictions?which meant that the five-by-10-foot “kitchen envelope” had to remain as is.
Fortunately, Alexi, a Special Victims Unit prosecutor, is the sister of interior designer Ariel Ashe of Ashe & Leandro. (Ariel met Seth years ago, when she was an intern in Saturday Night Live’s set department and he was a new cast member; he’s been turning to her for design help ever since.) Fresh from having redone the Late Night with Seth Meyers behind-the-scenes quarters?and from having revamped a TriBeCa duplex for Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber?Ariel and creative partner, architect Reinaldo Leandro, were summoned to work on Seth and Alexi’s new place. We love the low-key, high-style look that they applied throughout?and especially successfully in that postage-stamp kitchen. Photography by Fran Parente.

Above: Leandro designed the flush cabinets in space-receding white, detailed with Brass Lido Flat Top Knobs and a counter of absolute black honed granite from ABC Stone. “Alexi loves the cleanliness of the white and the warmth of unlacquered brass,” says Ariel. “She?s very neat.”
The subway tiles are Heath’s handmade six-by-six-inch Classic Field tiles, and the f...