The Future Perfect outfitted a five-story West Village townhouse for its new ?residential gallery? concept If you?re looking to sell high-end furniture, a plain old store or gallery just doesn?t cut it these days. No, today if you?re looking to entice buyers, you?ve got to stage it in a home, and bonus points if that home happens to be a gorgeous five-story townhouse in New York City?s West Village.

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The gallery behind some of contemporary design?s biggest names is doing exactly that. The Future Perfect has opened a new ?residential gallery? called Casa Perfect New York. Like the dreamy Casa Perfect in Los Angeles, the New York outpost will act as a showroom-meets-gallery-meets-event space where the design-minded can gather to ogle (and purchase) pieces.
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Circling around a sculptural staircase designed by British architect David Chipperfield, the townhouse?s five floors are outfitted with works from designers, artists, manufactureres, and makers, including Eric Roinestad, Collection Particulière, and Marcin Rusa. A pair of Marta Sala?s angular chairs adorn former maids? quarters; a Piet Hein Eek for Veronese chandelier dangles over a marbled bathtub.

Photo: The Future Perfect

Photo: The Future Perfect

Photo: The Future Perfect

The whole place is, in other words, perfectly and extraordinarily unattainable for most ...