Wright Auction

Michael and Gabrielle Boyd purchased Paul Rudolph’s penthouse at 23 Beekman place in 2000. The legendary home was in desperate need of renovation after Rudolph’s death in 1997, and there was no-one more qualified to resurrect the Modernist masterpiece than the Boyds. Looking back, Michael recalls, “The triplex was kaleidoscopic—a laboratory created by and for a very complex and conflicted guy. It spiraled in every direction, and it had thirty-seven levels, vertiginous stairs and galleries, which was just too complicated. We lived there two years, and I never figured it out.”