"Stepping into Adam Charlap Hyman’s one-bedroom apartment in a prewar tower in midtown Manhattan is like passing through the looking glass. In less than a decade the designer, one half of AD100 firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero, has established a reputation for spaces that exude fantasy rooted in research, that are whimsical, often off kilter, and always rigorously executed. The modest 800-square-foot space he calls home encompasses both a miniature library worthy of the 18th-century writer-aesthete Horace Walpole and a kitchen out of postmodern Italy, while elsewhere we find ourselves suspended between Baroque France and 1970s Germany. It all hums with vitality. “The space is alive for me,” says the designer."