Yigal Azrouël’s Minimalist Greenwich Village Home

“For me less is always more,” fashion designer Yigal Azrouël told WWD over the phone from Los Angeles. It may be a fashion cliché, but that mantra yielded chic minimalist design results when it came to the renovation of his duplex, set in an enviable Greek Revival townhouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, that he just listed for close to $6 million. For the redesign, he turned to product and interior designer Dror Benshetrit — someone he has collaborated with on multiple business projects, including his first boutique in the Meatpacking District and an interactive art installation for his 2009 men’s show. The remit for the much more personal commission was to spin a modern twist on the 200-year-old property, while remaining true to its historic roots, although the duo didn’t know exactly what they were going to do until they demolished the whole interior space to give them a blank canvas to work from. That blank canvas, it turned out, inspired the aforementioned “less is more” look, with the final product feeling more like a SoHo loft than a Greenwich Village townhouse thanks to beamed high ceilings, wide hardwood floors, flashes of brick and large windows, allowing natural light to flood the apartment. A custom steel-framed

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