For those who’ve ever questioned what it’s prefer to dwell in a sky-high penthouse hovering 77 flooring above Manhattan, step into Penthouse 76 at 53 West 53, a brand new luxurious residential tower in Midtown.

The hanging architecturally vital tower was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Parisian architect Jean Nouvel, whose work contains the whole lot from luxurious residential condos and houses to inns, live performance halls and museums. The tower is straight away recognizable because of its tapering construction that’s framed inside a concrete diagrid. This shifts the concrete sculptural system to the outside, creating a novel facade but additionally for permitting extra inside house inside the constructing. There are additionally 5 spires at totally different heights, which makes it much more visually interesting when seen from the streets or neighboring buildings. Nouvel was impressed by New York’s iconic structure and sought out to create one thing that will add to the various skyline.

The 1,050-foot, 82-story tower is tied because the sixth-tallest constructing in New York and has 161 residences. Interiors have been accomplished by globally acclaimed architect Thierry Despont, who labored on each the residences and amenity areas. The constructing can also be linked to the Museum of Fashionable Artwork by its first three ranges—a part of the museum’s enlargement.

The crown jewel, nonetheless, is the duplex penthouse—Penthouse 76—on the 76th and 77th flooring, priced at $64,730,000. This residence was designed by Fox-Nahem Associates in collaboration with ELLE Decor, developer Pontiac Land Group and actual property agency Hines. The house has a surprising, but playful New York Metropolis-inspired design. The residence spans 7,973 sq. ft and has 4 bedrooms and three-and-a-half bogs. Large ceiling heights, floor-to-ceiling home windows and large-volume areas, alongside ultra-luxe fixtures from Thierry Despont, impressed Joe Nahem, principal of Fox-Nahem, to create a one-of–a-kind residence.

“This high quality of this constructing is actually a step above the remaining,” Nahem tells Forbes. “We have been fortunate sufficient to get tasks like this the place we don’t want to boost what’s already there. For instance, there’s unbelievable door {hardware}; extra-high-ceilings; stunning, high-lacquered finishes; and an distinctive main lavatory. Even issues folks may not discover, just like the air-conditioning ducts have stunning linear diffusers. It’s accomplished very effectively.”

You enter the penthouse through a non-public elevator that opens to the entry lobby and connects to the double-height nice room. This house has three partitions of floor-to-ceiling home windows that look onto Central Park and the New York skyline. Right here, there’s an 11-foot-wide limestone-clad gasoline hearth that includes a clay set up by Brooklyn-based ceramic artist Peter Lane.

“The fireside is nearly a narrative excessive and weighs practically 4,000 kilos,” he says, including that Lane additionally accomplished work for Robert Downey Jr.’s East Hampton house. “It got here in separate items and so they needed to set up it on a scaffold piece by piece. That was unbelievable to observe.”

The design aim of Fox-Nahem was to create a layered and dynamic house with iconic items of furnishings. For the good room, Nahem selected Vladamir Kagan curved furnishings to offset the rectilinear form of the room and, as he says, soften it.

Subsequent, the formal nook eating room has views over the western skyline, in addition to Central Park, with a {custom} eating desk and chairs by Patrick Naggar, a {custom} pendant gentle by John Koga and an artwork set up by Studio Hoon Kim. The kitchen additionally options {custom} parts, together with a {custom} Thierry Despont for Molteni kitchen with an opulent suite of home equipment. Nahem’s vibrant contact is emphasised by colourful pendant lights and a custom-designed Elyse Graham breakfast desk.

“I did not deal with [the formal dining room] formally,” he says. “It’s so uncommon nowadays in a brand new constructing to have a eating room that is not open to the kitchen and that is separate from the lounge. Many individuals do not essentially like entertaining with an open kitchen. There’s anyone cooking within the kitchen, and it is open to the lounge. This is without doubt one of the few buildings the place you will have a full-size eating room. It nearly looks like a real home.”

There’s each a dramatic staircase, in addition to an inside elevator that takes you to the 77th ground above. This stage homes the 1,300-square-foot main bed room, with plush textures, panoramic views, a big walk-in closet, and a spa-like lavatory with south- and east-facing exposures. Different manufacturers Nahem included inside the house are Scavolini, Dornbracht, Holly Hunt, Pucci, Phillip Jeffries and the agency’s international community of artisans and craftspeople. The constructing additionally options artwork from the close by Tempo Gallery all through.

“ELLE Decor and Fox-Nahem are main authorities within the subtle model of luxurious residing that we’ve developed at 53 West 53, so it felt natural to accomplice with them on a collective imaginative and prescient for Penthouse 76,” says Samantha Sax, chief advertising officer of Pontiac Land U.S. ‘Collectively, we sought to create a complicated and distinctly metropolitan house in considered one of 53 West 53’s crowning residences that will authentically convey what the head of Manhattan residing will be.”

The constructing has greater than 30,000 sq. ft of shared facilities, and the remaining residences inside the tower begin at $3.55 million.