New York’s Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings

So many wonderful new books were released last fall, and I am still sifting through to share my favorites…  One that I found particularly intriguing is Life at the Top: New York’s Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings from Vendome Press. This new book offers a historic overview of Manhattan’s most splendid apartment buildings, chronicling the dramatic shifts in lifestyle and design over the last 130 years from Beaux-Arts mansions to high-rise glass condominiums.  Life at the Top explores 15 prestigious apartment houses through vintage and current photography of exterior and interior architectural details, as well as facts and photographs of the chic New Yorkers who live or have lived in these elegant abodes. With interiors designed by some of the most highly regarded designers of our time and a wealth of historical information, this book offers a delightful taste of life at the top.

Design by Bunny Williams, 740 Park Avenue
740 Park Avenue, Bunny Williams and Cullman & Kravis

820 Fifth Avenue apartment formerly owned by Babe and William Paley, with interiors by Sister Parish and architectural details by Maison Jansen. Photo credit: John Hall

Using McKim, Mead & White’s drawings as a guide, the owners at 998 Fifth Avenue recreated a semblance of the original kitchen.
Design by Henri Samuel, 834 Park Avenue
One Sutton Place South designed by Michael S. Smith
A 720 Park Avenue simplex, interiors by Jamie Tisch
Design by Henri Samuel, 834 Fifth Avenue
720 Park Avenue, designed by Katie Ridder and Tom Scheerer
A dressing room at 740 Park Avenue, interiors by Cullman & Kravis
998 Fifth Avenue, interiors by Thomas Jayne
Design by Henri Samuel, 834 Fifth Avenue
Life at the Top: New York’s Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings

7 COMMENTS

  1. Wow, those were breathtaking images. Thank you for sharing this book with us, as I don’t think it would have ever hit my radar. Now I need to put it on my wish list.

  2. The Paleys place has it! Sister Parrish by a lap or two! That wallpaper is mesmerizing. Cowton & Tout maybe.

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