The New York dream’ is how Gabriel Hendifar, founder of lighting and furniture design studio Apparatus, describes living in an apartment block in Lower Manhattan’s NoHo, and having tried much of what the city has to offer, from industrial lofts to classic brownstones, he should know.
However, like most dreams, there have been some unexpected twists and turns. Gabriel, first-generation American born to Iranian parents, moved here with his former partner, but