It's very cohesive and very precise and not at all welcoming.

And the counter stools are too tall for the counter.

I feel like with the exception of the Bertoia bar stools (which are like sitting in a shopping cart, in my opinion) the furniture is mostly all geared toward comfort which is often not the case with modernist interiors.

It's a little rigid, but I would take this over the typical grey with LVP suburban interior just about any day.

Beautifully executed and appointed in its style….but for $4.7 million with monthly fees of over $4k, I would expect perfection. Agree that the furnishings are spare but very comfortable looking, and oddly not Italian looking—because most modern interiors do look Italian to me.

Looking at this in the context of its comps, well, I am not going to criticize specific comps in public. Part of the $4000 fees is hotel amenities since the building is part hotel.

Don’t you think that is more likely access to the amenities like a chauffered car, restaurant, spa services, restaurant meals. masseuse who makes house calls, etc.? Except for the gym, which probably comes with unlimited use for the monthly fee, everything else still has to be paid for a la carte.

It's an attractive staging. It would be interesting to see what it looks like after someone actually moves in rids themselves of the props and arranges their actual STUFF. As it it makes me want to hit the stores for decor!!

Yes, access. In several buildings the chauffeured car is a "free" amenity but there must be some kind of frequency limitations. Part of this is also access to some sort of staff 24 hours a day.

Gloria Vanderbilt's apartment in Manhattan was relatively modest ans did not have central air IIRC, but her fees were $7000 monthly. I would imagine that this meant that she could probably have someone get her something to eat at 2:00 in the morning if she wanted. It would involve lavish tipping and such, but the possibility is there.

I think this actually is somebody's stuff, and things are obviously cleaned up for the photos. But I don't think the furniture or accessories are staging things, I think this is what it's decorated like. Just pared down a bit.

I think it's interesting how people look at and interpret interiors. I don't think this is overly minimalist, but people look at relatively minimal interiors like this and the first thing they say is that "nobody can live like this" (even though there is a fair amount of stuff in here).

But if somebody were to post an ordinary suburban living room the advice would be to get rid of most everything: Advice about having only One picture on each wall and only Three objects on the mantle shelf, and only one pillow in the each corner of the sofa, and move this object to the left a little and so forth is commonplace.

If you transported those bookshelves into a suburban living room (and made the bookcase more ordinary) the prevailing advice would be that the bookshelves were "too full of books" and that they were "messy" and they needed to get rid of "most of the books: shelves are supposed to be 1/3 books, 1/3 accessories, 1/3 open space".

In a modernist interior this is apparently too sterile. In a suburban LR it wouldn't even be good Marie Kondo. I am not sure what people want.

Those views make me miss Philly so much.

Beautiful place. I like how even though it’s very sleek, it still seems warm and cozy to me. Livable. Wonderful finishes!

This wall was a fantastic idea:

I’m just swooning over all the natural light this apt gets. I could happily move in with these furnishings; the only thing I’d change are the rugs — I’d bring in expensive Persian/Oriental ones (with my lottery winnings).

ETA: Also with those winnings, I’d buy the apt in NY Bill Blass lived in, furnished, but that’s another story. :D I’ve been reading a lot about him lately, and searching for vintage items, if my comment seems oddly random.

“But if somebody were to post an ordinary suburban living room the advice would be to get rid of most everything: Advice about having only One picture on each wall and only Three objects on the mantle shelf, and only one pillow in the each corner of the sofa, and move this object to the left a little and so forth is commonplace.”

And charts on lamp sizes, end table heights, lamps on end tables heights, rug sizes and placement, etc … all rules must be rigidly followed, no matter the style or situation.

If someone bucks the system and doesn’t put at least the front feet of the sofa on the rug? — fuhgeddaboudit.

The decorating version of Paint-By-Numbers. Takes me back to when I used to decorate model homes.

I agree with you about the current zeitgeist about shelving, Pal, and am not convinced it originated from any design principles per se. It seems to be one of those ”rules” that has become conventional wisdom from stagers and real estate tv, because when you see designers’ homes the bookcases are usually filled with books! Other stuff stacked in and around, maybe, but mostly books unless it was for display and then the few artfully stacked books are used as decor. It doesnt look bad, just an evolution I guess.

I like it. I like the alcoves with all the glass. The only thing I would need to add are a couple of side tables beside a couple of the chairs for my coffee/wine and my book.

Well I bring it up periodically, but I posted a number of interiors of well-known designers and tastemakers, all of which were crammed with books and things, in the Decorating forum and the typically prolific Pro and other commentators were completely silent. And there were a couple comments along the line of the shoemaker's children as in of course they neglected their own houses.