Flamm Apartment
Instead of creating a loft, “where you walk in and see everything at once”, David Ling “chose a more romantic way of experiencing the space – you go around corners constantly in a voyage of discovery." “By blowing out the cellular composition and replacing it with spatial flow,” Ling “established a continuous view along the window walls”.
The perimeter is lined with waist-high cabinets in luxurious Swiss pearwood.
Unlike most bibliophiles’ libraries, this one is modern, with custom sandblasted-glass shelves supported by ebonized-black-oak panels. It is the opposite of what you might expect in the home of a man who has 4,000 books.