Ms. Lau, who had a string of high-profile clients, died in January. She put her signature stamp on her prewar unit.
The interior designer Amy Lau’s Manhattan apartment, which she meticulously renovated and continued working on months before her death, is being sold by her estate.
The asking price for the home, a one-bedroom co-op on the fifth floor of Alwyn Court, an ornate prewar building at 180 West 58th Street, at Seventh Avenue, is $1.6 million, according to the listing agents, Emma Lester and Amanda Kahn of the Corcoran Group. Monthly maintenance is $2,104.
Ms. Lau died of cancer in January at the age of 56. She was a founder of the annual Design Miami fair, which ran in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach, and had a string of high-profile clients, including the fashion designer Elie Tahari and the media executive and Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. Her book, “Expressive Modern: The Interiors of Amy Lau,” published in 2011, showcased some of Ms. Lau’s interiors and the pieces she used in her work.
She bought the Midtown West apartment in April 2018 through an estate sale, paying $980,000, and moved in nearly a year and a half later. It was the first home purchase for Ms. Lau, a longtime renter, according to Sharon Bray, the business manager of Amy Lau Design, the firm Ms. Lau founded in 2001. Ms. Bray described the apartment as “her sanctuary.”
She “loved every piece she collected and curated in the space,” Ms. Bray said.
The 1,010-square-foot unit underwent a top-to-bottom renovation and restyling that lasted several years. When Ms. Lau bought the place, it hadn’t been updated since the 1980s and most of the original prewar details had already been stripped away.
