There’s an ephemeral romance that stirs up in me when I imagine the life and home of a perfumer. It seems like a career field out of a fiction novel where days are spent discovering scents and hand-mixing them in colorfully-tinted glass bottles in a sun-filled room. For perfumer Holladay Saltz, this rings (mostly) true.
Southerner Holladay and her husband and native New Yorker, Sam Saltz, live in a 780-square-foot 1900s brownstone with their cat, Prudence. Holladay runs her own fragrance and personal care line, Apoteker Tepe, from home where she spends her days mixing new concentrated scents, drafting new formulas, bottling and managing the design of print materials and her website. Sam teaches at a high school for recent immigrants in the Bronx. “I’m a native Southerner who longed to wear all black growing up and he’s a native New Yorker who loves mint juleps and bow ties, so our aesthetics balance pretty well,” says Holladay.
Their small home is filled with a balance of cobbled-together furniture from antique stores and family, multifunctional pieces and plenty of glass and Lucite to keep things visually light. Because the home serves as Holladay’s office and perfumery as well, functionality was of top priority, followed by highlighting the turn-of-the-century features such as the gargoyle in the entryway and original wood doors and beams — while still keeping it contemporary. – Sabrina
Photographs by Shay Platz
This has got to be one if my all time favourites. I love everything about it. Can I move in?
Oh my …! (speechless!!)
I really love this apartment. My favorite piece is probably the black desk. I’m an avid perfume lover. It’s career I’d love to have and a subject I never get tired of!
I think my favorite things about this space is the bookshelf, the french door and the desk nook. Beautiful.
Beautiful space. Love the bay windows, especially. I was wondering if I could get a source for the sofa?
I love everything about this room. I started wanting to list everything I loved, but it truly is everything in the pic!!!
Lovely space!
What I find creepy is that I have the very same cat/woman painting. Mine is in poorer condition but, the same none the less!
What a lovely tour! I absolutely love all of the character and charm in the apartment, and the way their decorating complemented it perfectly. I love that they mixed modern touches with older pieces. The fireplace in the bedroom is to DIE for.
A truly lovely space. Love all the wood and the fireplaces are gorgeous. As a cook I question the art work next to the sink and stove…they would be ruined in a week. Nice job.
Is there also a picture of the matching boy & dog painting?? That’s a really cool story! And I love the style of the painting.
I share Denise’s opinion! Please, may we see the dog and boy painting? Little teases like this haunt me.
Love this light-filled flat. Like prior comment, can you name source for the great sofa?
Hey Karen and Madhavi! The sofa is the Jasper from Room & Board. And I’ll put up a side by side of the lady and cat + boy and dog on Instagram– they really are eerily similar. Erika, that’s nuts that you have the same one! I have no idea where my grandmother got hers…
Amazing atmosphere, warm and neat, very well done.
This home is just one of the most beautiful I have ever seen – even on heaven-filled D*S. I think I’m in love!
UNBELIEVABLE….that woodwork! I dream of restoring all the painted over woodwork in our 1870 Victorian to that level one day…
love the black chairs around the tulip table. Are they Salt chairs? Also love the black and white leaf print above dresser. Do u know where I might buy a copy.
Loved seeing the McCarty Pottery sprinkled throughout your beautiful home!
What a beautiful home! I was really drawn to all the little touches like the cheese riser used as a soap dish. Truly lovely.
This is such a beautiful home. Inspiration can come so easily from pictures like these. Such a great look for an inner-city home!
I love the royal deep blue curtains to hide a space. Where did you find those?
What a beautiful home! I love the exposed brick walls and all the wood. P.S. I would have never guessed that the bookshelf was from Ikea. Awesome idea stacking those shelves.
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This is an absolutely beautiful home – only to be slightly upstaged by the adorable yet regal Prudence! Love it.
“The kitchen may not be something to write home about” …what a strange thing to say in the caption, especially with all that lovely exposed brick, from what I could tell from the minimal pictures provided it looked wonderful. This entire home is fabulous and appears very warm with loads of character! A great tour!