“It has such a Cole Porter feeling—this kind of old-fashioned glamour,” says the owner of a Manhattan penthouse that she and her husband now call home after 25 years in London. “It has elegance, but it doesn’t have bling.” Tempering that balance between sophistication and restraint was a priority for the couple, and it led them into the like-minded hands of AD100 designer Markham Roberts.
“It reminds me of a different New York than now,” concurs Roberts of the duplex, which spans the 16th and 17th floors of a 1920s Rosario Candela building and offers cinematic skyline and river views. “A lot of these apartments have been entirely stripped or redone, but this one still had all of its character.”
That bygone quality is on full display from the moment…
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Architectural Digest (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025