Home Tour: An Understated Bachelor Pad by Tina Ramchandani

A small home office was set up next to the front door, under a set of metal shelves that already existed in the apartment. The ebony desk was purchased at a Brooklyn flea market. "The homeowner needed to have a work space in the house, and he didn't want it to be hidden in the bedroom," says Ramchandani. "The existing shelves offered a nice frame."