Project · 2025 · Tribeca, Manhattan

HER Console.

The piece

Smooth and sleek on the outside. Fun and rich on the inside — like a well-tailored Paul Smith suit.

A floating console with a mirror, made for a bedroom high above Tribeca. Hardwood flutes, glass top, everything sprayed in satin polyurethane. Every surface flush, one end turning a full curve, a finger pull cut into the line instead of hardware. The six-foot mirror was cut to fit the console, so the two read as one object.

ClientPrivate residence

Year2025

LocationTribeca, Manhattan

MaterialPlywood · Medex MDF · hardwood flutes

FinishSatin polyurethane (oil-based) in Bachelors Blue, sprayed

FrontFluted, flush, integrated finger pull

Mirror6 ft · cut to the console · LED halo

LightingLED halo + hidden capacitive dimmer · no buttons

Floating dressing console and round mirror by Wewillbebirds in a Tribeca bedroom, New York City

The room holds the skyline on one side and the mirror answers it on the other. The console stays quiet between them until you open it.

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The reveal

From the outside: quiet. Then you pull a drawer.

And it reveals a colorful drawer with a shiny brass inlay. Most importantly the client didn’t know about the drawer interior. It was a total surprise and they loved it.

Open drawer of the HER console, colorful hand-painted interior with brass inlay

The halo

No buttons. Anywhere.

Light appears with a glide of your hand along the curve. On, off, dimming.

Fluted drawer front meeting the glass top of the floating console, Tribeca outside the window

The pull

The pull is a channel cut into the edges of drawer fronts. Invisible but obvious the second your hand lands on it. No knobs, no metal, nothing added to the face.

Integrated finger pull, a channel cut into the drawer front edges of the custom floating console

The flutes

Hardwood flutes, sprayed in blue satin.

Solid hardwood, milled, then sprayed in satin polyurethane until the front reads as one material. Daylight rakes across the ribs and the piece changes hour by hour.

Hardwood fluted front and glass top of the bespoke floating console, Woolworth Building through the window

The mirror

Cut to the console.

A mirror this size usually fights the furniture. This one was cut to it: a precise notch where the console meets the glass, so the two arrive as one composition. Behind the glass, an LED halo.

Six-foot round mirror with a millimeter-precise cutout meeting the floating console

Floating console's curved end in front of the six-foot mirror, bed reflected, Tribeca high-rise bedroom

The end turns a smooth curve, so the console meets the room without a corner. In the mirror: the bed, the sky, the city below.

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From Nick - the maker

I don’t really have project favorites. But some leave a dent in my heart. This one is that. From the first drawing to the final install, I was excited to make her real. Results like this only happen when client and builder truly understand each other: trust, freedom, real communication on both sides. Really proud of this one. Will miss her.

— Nick, Wewillbebirds