puzzle apartment

[harryh]

This is one of the most amazing things ever:Things are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type....But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets - messages, games and treasures - that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems

Comments

[buster]

Oh my god, that house is amazing. I can't tell if I'd rather be the architect who had the opportunity to build such an amazing puzzle, or the family that is living there now. 4 years? No questions asked? Totally awesome!

[billyfleetwood]

this is awesome, but I hate whenever I read something like this and get to the inevitable...

"It all began simply enough, Ms. Sherry said, when she and her husband bought the 4,200-square-foot apartment for $8.5 million in 2003." “I just didn’t want it to be this cookie-cutter, Upper East Side, Fifth Avenue kind of place,” she said.

yeah...cause everyone lives in the same 8.5 million dollar 4200-square-foot apartments...

but other than that very, very cool...I was one of those kids that buried my toys in the yard and drew treasure maps, so I can dig it.

[r_transpose_p]

So, um, when they "solve" the house, do they have to call the designer back in to put more mysteries in it?

Or does solving it once, and finding all the hidden tidbits, make it feel more like their house?

[powkang]

if that were my house, i totally wouldn't be able to leave and get on with my life until it were solved. i love it.