The Inside Out Duplex
New York magazine|New York Design Hunting - Fall 2016/Winter 2017

Everyone loves a terrace. So why not turn the whole living room into one?

Christopher Bonanos
The Inside Out Duplex

If you at first thought this was a house in Palo Alto or Sausalito, you could be forgiven your mistake. The living room evokes nothing so much as warm California design: those earth tones, the walnut ceiling, the monumental steel-and-bronze staircase with live-edge treads, and most of all the porosity between indoors and out. That grassy backyard—with a full-grown lawn, even!—turns out to be 17 stories up.

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