Floating forty-nine stories above Manhattan’s traffic and crowds, this apartment in MoMA’s Museum Tower combines two units into one. The spatial layout creates large open public spaces, more delineated bedroom zones, and self-enclosed areas for work. Exposure, ornamentation and privacy are the primary conceptual foci. Walls are utilized as transparent membranes, ornamented opaque skins, or reflective surfaces as a means of distributing, displaying and disguising programmatic zones. Vertical surfaces gain opacity and ornament according to hierarchies of privacy and importance. Clad in transparent glass, smoked glass, one way mirror, gold leaf, textiles and art objects, the walls become a contemporary interpretation of a beaux art sensibility. Accumulation and accretion thicken spaces and define the programs within.