The Living Room: The main living space occupies the entire north end of the penthouse. Here the ceiling rises to the underside of the third level terrace and then tapers upward through the full fifty-foot height of the penthouse structure. At the midpoint, a reading balcony is suspended on the exposed structural girders. At the attic level the outward sloping glass wall provides a vertiginous vista down to the Living Space four levels below. Furniture, fabrics, and finishes were designed by Ghislaine Viñas of Ghislaine Viñas Interior Design.
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The Slide: At the suggestion of the owners, we inserted a mirror polished stainless steel slide that coils down through all four levels of the penthouse.
The slide is entered through a circular hole cut in the seamless sloping glass partition at the south end of the Attic.
Visitors are invited to select a yellow cashmere blanket from the pile beside the entrance to speed their trip to the bottom….
The slide coils around a column and over the double-height guest bedroom. Interior designer Ghislaine Vinas installed a startling mural, inspired by Michael Jackson’s Neverland, in the only vertical wall in the room, scattering shards of saturated color along the mirror-polished surface. The slide then slips through a second seamless glass window and out over the stair. Windows in the slide admit natural light from the dormer windows and provide a fleeting vistas through the entire length of the penthouse.
A landing provides an opportunity to make a local stop at the third level or to re-enter the slide to continue the rest of the way down.
The lower leg coils down through the ceiling and into the Library on the main level, suspended from a single point within the floor structure above.
As it reaches the end, the helical tube flares out to create a distorted rectangular mirror which forms the wall of the Library and deposits the visitor back at the foot of the staircase.
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