In this Manhattan Apartment that it was created by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, is his first architectural project in New York City with a defiant celebration of a bygone age. Every room of the apartment is a testament to Japanese tradition. The original idea was to create a tearoom in an empty apartment that it is located on an upper floor of a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, untouched, with bare walls and dusty cement floors.
The clients requested his artwork and furnished with his custom-made furniture and light fixtures. From every direction of the house you can see the entire New York City from roughly a thousand feet above ground. Sugimoto also insisted on using as many premodern materials and techniques as possible. The apartment’s name is “Ukitsubo”, which means  “floating inner garden”. As Sugimoto said: “The entire apartment is entirely a work of art.”

Photograph by Anthony Cotsifas. Styled by Michael Reynolds