Media Watch: One Puzzling Apartment

From the New York Times:

Things are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type.... They are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous ‘20s-era co-op with Central Park views...gutted to its steel beams and refitted with luxurious flourishes like 16th-century Belgian mantelpieces and custom furniture made from exotic woods with unpronounceable names.

But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets – messages, games and treasures – that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.

What could you do if you had a few million to spend on renovating an apartment, an apartment that itself cost $8.5 million? Eric Clough did a lot, with the inspiration coming from the father’s request to stick a poem that he had written about his family on one of the walls. How the family found that poem is told in detail in this fascinating New York Times article. If nothing else, check out the slideshow of images from the apartment. Amazing stuff.

Comments: