MAY 2 0 1 7 I BOROMAG.COM 45 Moving into a new apartment can be an exciting time. Once the lease is signed and you have those keys in your hand, the fun can really start. A blank canvas awaits, ready for your expression of personal style and comfort. For most of us, though, a limited budget and the transitory nature of New York City dwelling can mean that the first thing you do it take a long, relationship-straining trip to Ikea. Luckily for Andrea Werwinski, a career in the furniture industry meant that an aggravating Sunday trip to Red Hook was not in her future. Instead, she told me, “the furniture finds me.” I went inside her eclectic Astoria apartment to see what she had acquired. Originally from Buffalo, New York, Werwinski came to the city for graduate school. “I studied interior design and started working in the field and then I decided I hated it!” she told me. The job she now holds in furniture sales fell into her lap, but she was apprehensive at first. “I wasn’t sure about going into sales, but I love furniture, so I tried it and I fell in love with it.” The furniture company Werwinski works for sells mid-century and contemporary designs, with one of the perks of the job being that employees receive great discounts, and the company runs competitions so its staff can win stock that’s being discontinued. “This is how I have acquired a lot of my pieces,” Werwinski explained, “but because they are a mix of periods and styles, it has created a really eclectic vibe in my space. I never sat down and planned my style; it’s just developed slowly. The apartment has built itself, rather than me building it.” The dining room chairs were gifted to her as a result of winning a company competition. The mid-century, almost Jetsonsstyle design of the backs, mixed with the muted shades they are colored in, make them somehow retro and modern at the same time. “Every piece has a story,” Werwinski said as we wandered about her apartment. “I never want to buy art just to hang on the wall; I want everything in my space to have meaning. I want to walk in every day after work and feel that this space is mine.”
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