Artists love north light and for those with grand ambitions big spaces. Scattered throughout Greenwich Village are a few townhouses that have very large skylights slanted inwards, such as can be found at 20 West 10th Street in apartments that were once lived in by Guy Pene du Bois, the great Art Deco American painter, and Hugh Ferriss, the great architectural renderer.

This otherwise modest building at 234 West 20th Street sports two triplex apartments with very large north-facing windows. Interestingly, one of the windows is angled outwards and upwards from the building, which is most unusual and a welcome departure from the city s rigid streetwalls.

This red-brick building has a fine Chelsea location that is near the wonderful Joyce Theater, the city's most charming venue for modern dance, and many restaurants.

It has 9 apartments, slightly arched lintels on the second through the fourth floors, a one-step-up entrance, sidewalk landscaping, fire escapes, and a blue-green terracotta tile floor in the lobby.

There is good public transportation in the vicinity and the building has no garage, but it does have fireplaces, stainless steel kitchen appliances, washers and dryers and Kohler whirlpool tubs.