Michael R. Davis, Architects P.C.

The client, an executive at an important investment bank, needed a space in which both crowded gatherings and intimate dinners could be held. The architect's solution was to create an enormous open area in which the living room, dining room, kitchen, bookcases and a pair of billiard tables shared space. Furniture and closets alone subdivide this room and act as independent volumes. The remaining 400 m² (1312 sq. ft.) are divided among three bedrooms and two bathrooms. 230 m² (754 sq. ft.) of roof space are used to fit out a terrace, accessed by passing through the inside of a tower.

The space's high ceilings, exposed pipe and tubes and the brick walls conserve the industrial "feel" of the past. The maple floor covering is also original.

The closets have steel front panels stained blue and are of colored oak, at play with the frames of the restored windows. The shelves are fir.

A seal and maple spiral staircase communicates between the living room and the terrace. To get to the exterior, passage is made through the interior of a neoclassical tower located in one of the corners of the building.

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