A townhouse in an uber-exclusive enclave of New York city is sublime

Not quite the “if you’re Irish come into the parlour” evocation” but there’s a huge sense of the green jersey at play in this Greenwich, New York townhouse. 

First off, there are the Giles Norman photos displayed on it’s monkishly ascetic walls and then there is the very Irish name of one half of the architectural practice who created this ‘reductionist’ wonder home. And, there’s the hint that the owner is in fact, Irish.

But terribly well to do, it has to be said, as this area of Manhatten is not for the average green-carder — it’s home to artists, actors, oligarchs and hedge-funders — a leafy, elegant world away from tenements in the Bronx.