When Maurice and Jorge asked their friend Giuseppe Lignano, a principal at design firm @lot_ek, to renovate their 1,100-square-foot apartment in New York’s East Village, it came as little surprise that the architect hauled a truckload of recycled commercial doors into the space. LOT-EK is known for incorporating recycled industrial materials into its projects, from truck beds to airplane fuselages. Needless to say, the apartment had issues. In the mid-1980s, the building combined each floor’s…
