This family of 4 (with one dog) live in an $8.5 million 4,200 sq. ft. apartment on Fifth Ave. in Manhatten, NY. The apartment was renovated and the architect put in a series of hidden puzzles that the family would find by surprise.
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Originally Posted by NY Times
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 (once part of a triplex built for the philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post), 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.
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A slide show of the apartment
Although, they kind of blew it. The article and slideshow are full of spoilers.
