This was a careful restoration of a classic nine room apartment in a Fifth Avenue building designed by a leading prewar high-rise apartment building architect, John E. R. Carpenter. Carpenter studied architecture at MIT in Boston and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris; his work was described in The New York Times in 1930, as having a “quiet, restful feeling in their large, high-ceiling rooms, the careful finish of detail, the skilled but unobtrusive service.” The Archimuse renovation, with decoration by J.D. Bell, Inc, honors Carpenter’s vision of gracious urban living and included full window replacement, restoring fifteen double hung wood windows with integrated weights and chains.