“Here you can find no patterned wallpapers, nor is a single opened fan on display, but the japonisme is present all the same,” says Eric Boman, a close friend of Koda’s. There’s nothing in the cognoscenti-approved interior design lexicon to categorize its look. There is proportion and permeability, nothing claustrophobic, a cadence as you go from room to room. The furniture is important but not stiflingly so. I’d been to the apartment before and now, as then, found quietude and beauty. It’s a New Yorker’s dream to be able to walk to work, and the pre-war Park Avenue apartment that Harold Koda shares with his longtime partner, lawyer Alan Kornberg, is just three blocks from the Metropolitan Museumon Fifth Avenue.Ī few weeks ago, with everything and everyone at the Met on the brink of Charles James Fever-“Charles James: Beyond Fashion” is the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition-Koda invited me here to talk about the James show. On an afternoon in early spring, Harold Koda, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, left his office and went home.
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