Life at the Top: New York’s Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings inside down to the beach with

down to the beach with its pretty restaurant and on to the vineyards where some of the finest rosé wines in the world are now created

capturing the distinctive light

the interior design

Illustrated with some seventy-five period photographs

Life at the Top: New York’s Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings inside down to the beach withTheres a parlor game that sophisticated New Yorkers have been playing since the Gilded Age: What are New Yorks best apartment buildings? Before the turn of the (last) century, the Dakota and the Osborne were obvious answers; by the 1920s the list had grown to include McKim, Mead & Whites 998 Fifth, and the ultra soign 820 Fifth Avenue. The Roaring Twenties witnessed the construction of some of the most luxurious apartment buildings ever designed: 740