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Yikes. This apartment really gave me the creeps—and what a cozy guest room! Guess that's one way to discourage overnight visitors—put them in a fishbowl. Jesus.

It's absolutely gorgeous, but wouldn't it be a little . . . *bright*? I live in a (rented) place with white walls and a white floor and apart from being hard to keep looking clean, some mornings the light feels like it's drilling into the back of my brain. And it's not all lacquered like this!

I love the sense of surprise and drama that the unit conveys. It would make a cool movie set - the image of the taxis reflecting is powerful. I do wonder if somebody actually lives here or if it serves as an entertainment pad. I guess I'll know when I get my issue in the mail.

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t8: the story talked about it as more of an entertainment pad/pied-a-terre.

An apartment like this would make me go certifiably insane, and not just because you'd have to clean it every single day. All those tvs and no books? That's...a club. They live in a club. One of those clubs I would never go to, where you have to show 75% of your chest and wear leggings instead of pants.

I dislike this for the same reason that I dislike transparent floors/stairs: you would never be able to wear a skirt and have guests over. (Probably) Not an issue if you're a guy, but rather inconvenient if you're a woman.

I could never live there. Way over the top OCDness! Since their real home is in New Jersey, I'm guessing this is all about impressing their guests and entertaining. But who could relax and have a good time in this space?

I worked in an office with high-gloss white floors similar to these. They only looked good at night after the poor cleaning lady spent hours on her knees scrubbing off the shoe marks and buffing the floors. They were usually a mess half an hour after people came in the morning.

i love white, but this is icy cold white. it doesn't feel like a home at all. there's no warmth, which could happen when you mix whites of differing textures and tones. but this is way too shiny and glossy and repetitive. the space itself might be super cool, but this is frigid.

I guess I'm in the minority here...but I think this space is downright chic.

I think this is fantastically beautiful. Lookingupatleaves, regarding the brightness of it, I'd say as a person living in Chicago, where most of the year is gray and dreary, I'd love to have a place that feels so brilliantly bright. But I agree with the comments about the difficulty of keeping a place like this clean.

Swiffer heaven.

;)

To get where these people have gotten, they have chosen to suppress their humanness, and this apartment is both a boast and a confession of that choice. And I don't judge them for that.

It's also fun to see that they are clearly excited about having money, which is new to them.

why does this remind me of 80s chrome and black leather??

You know what's annoying? The way homes are described as "space." It just emphasizes that people of a certain bent would rather live in a gallery than a home. I don't get designing a home for the benefit of impressing others.

It's their party space; their prerogative to trick it out according to their fantasies. I don't know ... it's not beautiful. Maybe they weren't aiming for that.

The color choices are a little tacky. I love orange, just not here. And the aqua is gross. Maybe they should've executed their all-white vision to the end. Or, wherever there's red-orange, they could've used natural (unstained) wood to bring the contrast in materials and feel. Brought a touch of soulfulness to the space.

Whenever I see a picture of that couch, I think Michelin Man or skin rolls on an obese baby.

"...emphasizes that people of a certain bent would rather live in a gallery than a home."

And people of a "certain bent" would rather live in a trailer, or a brownstone, or a bungalow. And they may be just as interested in impressing others as you are assuming the owners of this cloud-like "space" are. No need to judge, it takes all kinds.......

I find it an utterly amazing space.

I can understand the desire for these folks to have such a clean space: as attorneys, they're up to their eyeballs for 12 hours a day in words, meetings and distractions - This type of space must be comforting for them in that they can allow their minds some rest with the gleaming surfaces, simple furnishings and complete lack of clutter.

And as attorneys, they obviously don't care about how difficult it is to clean or how practical it is - they have staff for cleaning and keeping the place tidy.

It does look like a dance club! The kind where I would inevitably find the puddle of water, slip, and break something within the first five minutes.

It also resembles the space ship from 2001 and we all know how that turned out...

i'm in loooooove

Although my space will never look like this - I love it. i would like one tiny part of my house to look like this all the time. maybe my desk or part of the bedroom. and I totally get the no books around thing. Since we're downsizing, I cleaned out an entire wall of books. Many had moth larvae, many were books that friends lent - NONE were worth cluttering up the place with. If I feel like rereading a paperback, I'll just go pick up a used one. Whats with keeping all the books. We found college economics books, 1980 travel books. Feels so good to get rid of them and my local goodwill/bookstore was happy.

I like it - maybe not practical but they obviously wanted a "statement" place and it is that.

who is the poor soul who has to clean this place? and why would you want to see the reflection of a taxi cab on the 39th floor?

This is definitely not a home. This looks more like a private space for entertaining and impressing people. It am guessing it serves the same purpose as the Los Angeles pool and view, except this space is probably in a separate unit or building from the owner's home.

clinical . . . not in a good way.

Thank you typediva, for saying exactly what I was thinking. I understand when people make comments on aesthetic judgments on this site, but I don't get why some people want to make it so personal.

As a design case it's awesome. I think places like this make people consider a space/home/atmosphere in a new way. And you have to admit, that even if you didn't want to live there, having the 39th floor of a building with all-glass walls over-looking New York that looked like a sophisticated dance club to bring your friends to for drinks...you'd feel like a bad ass. Admit it. You would. ;)

As a "home" though (even though it isn't their home) it does come off as pretty sterile, and this is coming from a big fan of the concrete-palace aesthetic. That kitchen actually looks like an O.R. of sorts.

We should all be so lucky to have the coin to pimp out a place so specifically to our desires.

I can't help but wonder if some people genuinely would use a space like this as a giant, cozy, reading nook given the chance...

I think it's a beautiful space, and when you have the kind of money these folks must have, you obviously can afford to have people clean it.

That sofa actually looks comfortable, so in its way, it IS kind of warm. You're close to the sun, so THAT's kind of warm.

You're that far above the city, so you feel like you're on top of world, and why not?

Meanwhile, your guests might actually feel kind of special, because when show up in ANYTHING that looks remotely good on them, it will be against a white backdrop, so to speak, and they might look kind of special. And if they're showing up kind of shabby, OK, so they'll look like a Diane Arbus photograph.

I think this is a very sexy looking place.