A Playboy Pad Lofty Ambitions

February, 1978

Combining his two worlds, architecture and art collecting, New York bachelor Hanford Yang converted 3000 square feet of loft space in one of the Soho district's numerous cast-iron buildings into a multilevel live-in showcase for his burgeoning collection of sculpture, paintings and objets d'art. Yang purposely kept the amount of furniture to a minimum (most of it is built in) in order to create an atmosphere of free-flowing openness that emphasizes the work of such notables as Robert Motherwell...