It might just be a bar that designer Brian McCarthy recently created on an upper floor of a Park Avenue high-rise. The cocooning room, its arched floor-to-ceiling window framing a glittering downtown view, is lined in gold-dappled, coral-lacquer paneling with insets of swirling, smoky resin embellished with bronze details.

Descending from the gilded barrel-vaulted ceiling is a Drift light sculpture whose intricate bronze lattice contains delicate, light-emitting dandelion seed heads. The curved bar, topped with marble and trimmed in brass, features a marquetry front of dyed wood veneers composed in a painterly feather pattern. As refined as anything conjured during Art Deco’s heyday, this jewel-box space exudes echoes of earlier eras but also feels decidedly fresh.

Brian McCarthy Creates a Dazzling Jewel Box in the Sky Filled with Artisanal Details - Galerie Magazine