It was a rainy overcast day, but the possibilities were obvious. A
spectacular live shot out the windows, birds wheeling through the air, steam rising from
rooftops. The view had never been used before: the low roofs of Hell's Kitchen
in the foreground; midtown Manhattan as the backdrop. The dominant buildings were
Worldwide Plaza. I picked the two adjacent windows with the best views, and went to
work with designer Michael Hotopp. The challenge: how to take one small bit of
a booming raw space and turn it into a room in a comfortably decorated loft space?
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