Located on the forty-fifth floor of a new high-rise tower on 57th street , this three-bedroom apartment served as a model for prospective buyers of condominiums in the building .
ONE57 RESIDENCE
We were asked to furnish this empty shell . The developers were rightly proud of the floor-to-ceiling glass curtain wall affording a spectacular panorama of manhattan — so much so that they were reluctant to block even an inch of the view with curtains . We felt that the space looked overly severe without a window treatment . The solution was to install full-height draperies not on the windows but on the living room ’ s sheetrock walls , with art hanging in front of the fabric . We painted the walls black and hung the curtains from twisted cord rope starting about a foot below the ceiling . This arrangement allowed us to artfully conceal the vents for the apartment ’ s heating and cooling system .