“The idea for a circular stair was in the air since the beginning,” explains Steven Harris, architect of the newly opened Barney’s flagship in downtown New York. The dazzling staircase French designer Andrée Putman created over 30 years ago for the specialty retailer’s original store in the same Chelsea location lingers in the memories of its well-heeled patrons, and is still extant in the neighboring Rubin Museum of Art, which took over a corner of the store after Barney’s left in 1997.
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