Michael and Susan Hort’s 3-story, 10,000-plus-square-foot home in Tribeca is alive with art. The couple are constantly switching out what’s on display, drawing from their 5,000-piece collection. Explore their home in DHWendyGoodman's latest GreatRooms
The living-room loft features Jack Pierson’s 1996 word-pictureabove the fireplace . Family photos line the mantel. Pierson’s piece is a permanent installation; the others are rotated out during the year.The living-room loft features Jack Pierson’s 1996 word-pictureabove the fireplace . Family photos line the mantel. Pierson’s piece is a permanent installation; the others are rotated out during the year.
“We weren’t looking for fancy,” he recalls of the renovation. “In fact, the architect was a little disappointed because we said we wanted to hang art, we wanted bare walls. We said, ‘Leave the bricks.’ The only thing the architect did, basically, was our bathrooms and the stairs.” Michael admits he had no feeling for contemporary art at the time. Susan had been collecting 19th-century American art, and that didn’t resonate for him. “They were nice paintings,” Michael told me, “and I had absolutely no interest in them. To me, they were wallpaper; they were nice, colorful, but wallpaper.” What did interest him, however, was the conversation he and Susan and Icaro and his dealer, Jack Tilton, had over dinner the night of the sale.