Christopher Coleman’s bright Williamsburg one-bedroom shows what can be done when cheap materials (patent leather, acrylic, parachute fabric) meet ingenuity. N o, Christopher Coleman was not deliberately referencing Mondrian, the Memphis movement, or the Rubik’s Cube when he assembled the new Williamsburg apartment he shares with fashion designer Angel Sanchez. This gung-ho mix of bold elementsa geometric kitchen wall covering, a color-block chair, a sliding door in red patent leatheris his own design philosophy, where pricey Gio Ponti chairs share space with inexpensive Canal Street finds. The chair, left, is from Prague Kolektiv in Dumbo, and is upholstered in a wool dhurrie Coleman found in Dubai while there with Sanchez, who was doing a wedding. The acrylic chair, right, is a Jean-Charles de Castelbajac design that Coleman found at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. read more