At a fund-raiser held recently at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio Headquarters in New York City, a guest, Hugh Hardy, FAIA, ebulliantly broke out into a Gershwin tune, “I’ll build a stairway to paradise, with a new step every day.” Prompted by the expansive white stair slicing diagonally through the 19th-century warehouse that Work Architecture Company (WORKac) renovated for the fashion designer, Hardy’s showbiz homage was befiting. With its concrete treads and risers, and edged by stainless-steel cables, the grand stair funnels daylight from an oddly angular yet bulbous rooftop skylight throughout five floors of the work and display spaces. (A sixth floor, atop the roof, accommodates a glassed-in penthouse apartment.)
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