Artist and designer Addye Durant is recreating the joy of being 9 years old with her new lifestyle brand Yay9! for kids. Photographer Theresa Stigale talked with Durant about loft living, Prince fandom, and her badass chick t-shirts.

In the first of an occasional series looking at some of the city’s more unusual living spaces, we visit an old bronze foundry that’s more work/live than live/work