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One of the first SoHo lofts featured in The New York Times was, as it happened, the Wooster Street home of Dean and Ceglic, who, in 1969, paid $20,000 for one of the seven floors in a warehouse building (their floor previously housed a doll factory), before industrial conversions were legal. A photo of the place caught the eye of Ronnie Sassoon, then a young woman living in Cincinnati: ''I saw it and thought, This is where I would live if I lived in New York.'2

Sassoon would go on to become a model, then an art historian, eventually marrying the hairstylist Vidal Sassoon in the early ’90s.....Continue Reading

Top image: The couple Ronnie Sassoon and James Crump kept the loft’s original bookcases and painted floors. Image © François Halard, courtesy of NY Times.

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