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Article: Four units, furnished: Michael and Gabrielle Boyd treated Paul Rudolph's stack of defiantly experimental Beekman Place apartments as a different kind of design lab. (matters of design).(New York, New York)
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- Interior Design
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- September 1, 2002
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"IT DAZZLES EVERYBODY," owner Michael Boyd says of the Beekman Place apartment house where Paul Rudolph wreaked architectural havoc. Rudolph famously omitted railings for the flying marble stairs he installed throughout, and the 1970s penthouse addition, the architect's home until his death five years ago, is a constructivist masterpiece--part sculpture, part architecture, and all disco. Because the interiors are so spectacularly off-kilter, they were featured in The Royal Tenenbaums and the film adaptation of Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke. "But to think of them as a place to live," Boyd says, "takes a brave modernist."
The nine-story building had already developed ...