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"Into the Light\naccentuating the natural virtues of a corner apartment on manhattan's central park west\nThe balcony off the living area. Emphasizing the dramatic Central Park vistas was one of the biggest challenges. \"We had to reorient the apartment's relationship to the views.\"\n\"It was a series of static spaces,\" says Lee F. Mindel, who, with his partner, Peter L. Shelton, brought scale and light to a couple's corner apartment in a 1910 building in Manhattan. The entrance hall had a dated wallcovering.\nThe architects chose a bright green hue to \"foreshadow the park.\" Georg Jensen vase.\n\nPainting the formerly drab living room white set off the early-to mid-20th-century furnishings, including a low table, wall light and Visiteur chair, right, by Jean Prouv\u00E9. Alexandre Noll created the sculpture and watercolor on the mantelpiece. Orrefors glass apple.\n\"The windows looked flimsy, and air-conditioning units were exposed.\"\nIn a single gesture\u2014a bay system that wraps around the interior\u2014the architects resolved many of the apartment's weaknesses. \"It gives the space stature, forms a procession of openings on the city and solves problems of storage, heating and ventilating, lighting and window treatments.\" Sofa and club chair fabrics from Rogers Goffigon. Herm\u00E8s wicker tray.\nThe dining area's English Arts and Crafts table and Danish chairs date back to the era of the building. \"There's a straightforwardness to the furniture that expresses the owners' appreciation of art, culture and internationalism,\" Mindel remarks. A floating cabinet offers additional storage and allows light to filter into the entrance hall.\n1 Entrance Hall\n\n2 Living Area\n\n3 Dining Area\n\n4 Guest Room/Office\n\n5 Kitchen\n\n6 Master Bedroom\n\n7 Baths\n1 Entrance Hall\n\n2 Living Area\n\n3 Dining Area\n\n4 Guest Room/Office\n\n5 Kitchen\n\n6 Master Bedroom\n\n7 Baths\n\n8 Vanity\n\"Hideous would have been a nice word for it,\"Mindel says of the former kitchen, which the architects streamlined with Corian counters and stainless-steel cabinets from Bulthaup.\nThey opted for open storage above the sink. \"The things that stand out on the shelves don't need to be enclosed.\" Recessed lighting was installed throughout.\n\n\"So it didn't seem so spanking new, we made loosely slipcovered sofas that don't call attention to themselves.\" The guest room, which doubles as an office, has chairs by Jean Prouv\u00E9, left,and Hans Wegner. Orrefors bowls on low table by Shelton, Mindel.\n\"When the building went up, the notion of enclosure, coziness and luxury was very different from what it is now.\"\nThe master bedroom, which features the same palette used in the living areas, is \"the most intimate space,\" Mindel says. Furnishings include a wall light by Jean Roy\u00E8re and a bedside table by Josef Frank."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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