"Sandra Liotus and her partner, David Crampton-Barden, live in a 1925 building on Beekman Place that was designed to resemble a Venetian palace. The architects William Treanor and Maurice Fatio even treated the East River as the Grand Canal, adding a private dock for residents to moor their boats. By the time Liotus, an American lighting designer, and Crampton-Barden, a British lighting engineer, moved into the co-op in 2013, the waterfront features were long gone."
""With everything found or displayed, I ask myself, Is this something that Isabella Stewart Gardner would have collected?" Liotus says, referring to the Boston socialite with the Venice fixation. Liotus and Crampton-Barden decorated the living room with tapestries and 18th- and 19th-century art and furniture. As the owners of a bespoke lighting company based in Newport, Rhode Island, where they spend most of their time, they are experts in the unique needs of historic homes and buildings filled with light-sensitive canvases, fabrics, and objects."
Sandra Liotus and her partner, David Crampton-Barden, live in a 1925 Beekman Place building designed to resemble a Venetian palace, originally featuring a private dock and an Italianate courtyard garden. They moved into the co-op in 2013 and have direct courtyard access from their one-bedroom pied-à-terre. Liotus and Crampton-Barden decorated the living room with tapestries and 18th- and 19th-century art and furniture. They own a bespoke lighting company in Newport, Rhode Island, specializing in lighting for historic homes and light-sensitive artworks. Early commissions included the Houghton Library and New York Yacht Club; later work included lighting masterpieces in David Rockefeller Sr.'s townhouse. Their apartment uses glass fiber-optic ceiling-mounted cables with camera-quality lenses that emit no heat or ultraviolet radiation to protect artworks.
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