This duplex apartment in a residential tower on the corner of 57th and Park Avenue involved the complete renovation of two previously separate floors of the tower that had been joined with a connecting stair. The resulting residence, while physically larger, had not been re-imagined at the new scale: the whole was less than the sum of the apartments.

A grand living room was created on the upper floor that is open to the stair, giving the duplex a wholly new scale and visually connecting the upper and lower halves. Panels of ribbon-cut anigre articulate walls between the living room windows and unify what had previously been disparate rooms.

Throughout the apartment the theme of open spatial composition is developed with openings from room to room to create continuous vistas. Dining, kitchen and family rooms on the lower floor create a suite of interrelated rooms that can be opened into one another by means of large sliding honey-colored onyx slabs.

This continuity of space is further accentuated by walls of hand applied encaustic plaster in frames of polished anigre, whose horizontal lines extend the principal spaces into a continuous composition. This continuity is carried through into a theme of smaller spatial openings between minor spaces, such as the kitchen, stairs and bathrooms.