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Esther Koch: Exercise and Friends Are the Key to Successful Aging

An elder care expert says your social network is “the elixir of life.”

At her 30^th MBA class reunion in 2009, gerontologist and consultant Esther Koch gave her classmates tips on successful aging. Since then, she was almost entirely housebound for nine months because of injuries from a bicycle accident. That prompted the 61 year old to change her own plans for the next stage of her life. Successful aging, she says, involves a willingness to recognize how important other people are to you, and to allow yourself to rebalance your lifestyle as your goals change.

Four years have passed since you talked with your Stanford GSB classmates about successful aging. Have your experiences since brought any new insights?

The tenets haven’t changed. Successful aging is not just adding years to life but putting life into those years. Social support structures, or social networks, are so important. That hit home for me when I was the primary caregiver to my mother. She had a motto: “To have a friend you must be a friend.”

Recently, I had to have a back operation and an ankle operation, which made me really understand not having physical abilities, and what that means for somebody living alone. It’s not a good combination. I was a fall risk, and I was lonely. Out of that, I made the decision to sell my house and move in with my partner, Jim. As a gerontologist, I know that living alone is not good for you physically, mentally, or emotionally, but this really hit home for me.

Are you planning to retire because of your injury?

I’m going to continue to work, but I’m going to be living in a less urban area, and smell the roses a little more. It’s Mendocino, an area where community is important, where people live community. I’ll continue to use my gerontology degree, which I currently use as a Medicareadvisor. I’m looking for those 64-year-old Baby Boomers to help them with their initial Medicareelections and annual Medicare prescription drug elections.

What’s your advice to the middle-aged and elder Americans who live alone?

Many of us in the Baby Boomer generation were brought up to be independent, and that does not bode well for successful aging. We know that not having social support has correlations with dementia and death.

Sometimes people are too late in considering how they want to live their life when they’re older. If you haven’t thought about what your needs might be as you’re older, you’re probably going to stay in the situation you are in. You lose options if you don’t plan ahead. Acknowledging aging isn’t giving into it. Not acknowledging aging is giving in because you lose options.

But isn’t it true that as we get older, we live more in the moment and do less planning ahead?

I look at that a little differently. As you get older, you have the perspective that you’re on the short end of life, so you actually have more clarity. “I’ve been there, done that, I’m not going to do this.” Life can be less dramatic, and also, people tend to see things more positively. As your time horizon shortens, you tend to focus on more emotionally meaningful goals. That’s research from the Stanford Longevity Center called the socio-emotional selectivity theory.

Do you mean that grandkids become more important than the job?

It could be grandkids, other family, or your circle of friends. As you get older you realize how little work adds to the joy in your life. At different stages of life, there are different things that give you balance. I tend to think you have more balance in your life as you get older. You have more choice of how you are going to spend your time.

You talk with young MBA students about older people in their lives. What do you discuss?

I’ve been the guest lecturer on elder care for the Work and Family class since 2007. It is a self-selected group who choose to take the class, but I’m always amazed at how many of them are already dealing with elder care, and I don’t mean their grandparents. They’re talking about their parents. They also talk about the financial responsibilities they feel they have to their parents. As men are taking more of a role in childcare, they are also more involved with elder care. The questions that tend to come up are about sibling relationships, not so much about taking on responsibilities for parents, but how I work it out with my siblings.

What is your advice on dealing with siblings?

The bottom line is to work on what is fair. Within a family, not everybody can do the same thing. One person may be able to provide more monetary input. Another person may be the closest to the parent, so they take on a role based on proximity. Another person may be mom or dad’s favorite, so they play that role. It doesn’t need to be equal, but it does need to be fair.

Another point is that somebody has to be the leader. And the other siblings can’t be shooting potshots at the leader. Conversely, that leader cannot have unyielding power. There has to be mutual respect.

What about finding balance for people who have small children and elders to care for?

We call that the sandwich generation, and that does come in when people have had children later in life, so they’re getting care responsibilities on both ends. Caregiver stress is real, so you need to find the balance that works for you. In some respects, it’s maintaining boundaries, that there’s only so much you can do for your parent, or so much you can do for your child, and you need to have a segment for you.

If you come from a functional family, caregiver stress sneaks up on you, because you want to do these things for your parents and/or your children. If you’re in a dysfunctional family, it can be just as stressful, but the cause of the stress is the perceived burden in that you don’t want to be doing this.

What do you mean by dysfunctional family?

Families that don’t work well together: I hate my mother; I hate my father; or I never liked my brother and sister since the sandbox. Forgiveness is really the only way to break through dysfunctional families. If you don’t forgive, you lose today and you lose the future. It’s like you’re lost in the past.

To get to forgiveness, think of your deathbed. Is that when you want to have the “aha moment” where you realize how much of life you wasted?

What are the two most important things to know about successful aging?

First and foremost is building and maintaining a social support network, which is primarily for most people the family, but it can also be family by choice. Your spouse is your most important relationship, but you can’t ignore other people in your life. You see that consistently across the globe in studies on successful aging.

I’m seeing more and more situations where people network around their interests. Some people join the gym when they’re retired, and they meet people that way. Two retired men I know met walking in the same place. One was in management and the other in a union. They started walking together and having conversations.

The other thing that is key is physical exercise. Exercise is so beneficial to your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. It’s the best prescription for health that a doctor can give you. But the social network is really the elixir of life.

Esther Koch received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1979. She is a consultant on Medicare and other aging advisory services through her firm Encore Management.

This is What Wi-Fi Looks Like

Wireless internet. This wonderful hidden energy all around all of us that connects us to people and then websites around the world. But what if you could basically see wireless internet? Exactly what would it be like? That is precisely the question artist Nickolay Lamm has wanted to answer. With the help of Astrobiologist M. Browning Vogel, he launched a number of images representing just what wi-fi would look like if it turns out to be visible to the human eye.

Wifi is an energy field that is transmitted as waves. The waves have a certain height, distance between them and travel at a certain speed. The distance between wifi waves is shorter than that of radio waves and longer than that of microwaves, giving wifi a unique transmission band that can’t be interrupted by other signals. This image shows an idealized wifi data transmitted over a band that is divided into different sub-channels, which are shown in red, yellow, green and other colors.

 

20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don’t Get

I started Docstoc in my 20’s, made the cover of one of those cliché “20 Under 20” lists, and today I employ an amazing group of 20-somethings.  Call me a curmudgeon, but at 34, how I came up seems so different from what this millennial generation expects.  I made a lot of mistakes along the way, and I see this generation making their own.  In response, here are my 20 Things 20-Year-Olds Don’t Get.

Time is Not a Limitless Commodity – I so rarely find young professionals that have a heightened sense of urgency to get to the next level.  In our 20s we think we have all the time in the world to A) figure it out and B) get what we want.  Time is the only treasure we start off with in abundance, and can never get back.  Make the most of the opportunities you have today, because there will be a time when you have no more of it.

You’re Talented, But Talent is Overrated - Congratulations, you may be the most capable, creative, knowledgeable & multi-tasking generation yet.  As my father says, “I’ll Give You a Sh-t Medal.”  Unrefined raw materials (no matter how valuable) are simply wasted potential.  There’s no prize for talent, just results.  Even the most seemingly gifted folks methodically and painfully worked their way to success.  (Tip: read “Talent is Overrated”)

We’re More Productive in the Morning – During my first 2 years at Docstoc (while I was still in my 20’s) I prided myself on staying at the office until 3am on a regular basis.  I thought I got so much work done in those hours long after everyone else was gone.  But in retrospect I got more menial, task-based items done, not the more complicated strategic planning, phone calls or meetings that needed to happen during business hours.  Now I stress an office-wide early start time because I know, for the most part, we’re more productive as a team in those early hours of the day.

Pick Up the Phone – Stop hiding behind your computer. Business gets done on the phone and in person.  It should be your first instinct, not last, to talk to a real person and source business opportunities.  And when the Internet goes down… stop looking so befuddled and don’t ask to go home.  Don’t be a pansy, pick up the phone.

Be the First In & Last to Leave ­– I give this advice to everyone starting a new job or still in the formative stages of their professional career.  You have more ground to make up than everyone else around you, and you do have something to prove.  There’s only one sure-fire way to get ahead, and that’s to work harder than all of your peers.

Don’t Wait to Be Told What to Do – You can’t have a sense of entitlement without a sense of responsibility.  You’ll never get ahead by waiting for someone to tell you what to do.  Saying “nobody asked me to do this” is a guaranteed recipe for failure.  Err on the side of doing too much, not too little.  (Watch: Millennials in the Workplace Training Video)

Take Responsibility for Your Mistakes – You should be making lots of mistakes when you’re early on in your career.  But you shouldn’t be defensive about errors in judgment or execution.  Stop trying to justify your F-ups.  You’re only going to grow by embracing the lessons learned from your mistakes, and committing to learn from those experiences.

You Should Be Getting Your Butt Kicked –Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” would be the most valuable boss you could possibly have.  This is the most impressionable, malleable and formative stage of your professional career.  Working for someone that demands excellence andpushes your limits every day will build the most solid foundation for your ongoing professional success.

A New Job a Year Isn’t a Good Thing ­­– 1-year stints don’t tell me that you’re so talented that you keep outgrowing your company.  It tells me that you don’t have the discipline to see your own learning curve through to completion.  It takes about 2-3 years to master any new critical skill, give yourself at least that much time before you jump ship.  Otherwise your resume reads as a series of red flags on why not to be hired.

People Matter More Than Perks – It’s so trendy to pick the company that offers the most flex time, unlimited meals, company massages, game rooms and team outings.  Those should all matter, but not as much as the character of your founders and managers. Great leaders will mentor you and will be a loyal source of employment long after you’ve left.  Make a conscious bet on the folks you’re going to work for and your commitment to them will pay off much more than those fluffy perks.

Map Effort to Your Professional Gain – You’re going to be asked to do things you don’t like to do.  Keep your eye on the prize.   Connect what you’re doing today, with where you want to be tomorrow.  That should be all the incentive you need.  If you can’t map your future success to your current responsibilities, then it’s time to find a new opportunity.

Speak Up, Not Out – We’re raising a generation of sh-t talkers.  In your workplace this is a cancer.  If you have issues with management, culture or your role & responsibilities, SPEAK UP.  Don’t take those complaints and trash-talk the company or co-workers on lunch breaks and anonymous chat boards.  If you can effectively communicate what needs to be improved, you have the ability to shape your surroundings and professional destiny.

You HAVE to Build Your Technical Chops – Adding “Proficient in Microsoft Office” at the bottom of your resume under Skills, is not going to cut it anymore.  I immediately give preference to candidates who are ninjas in: Photoshop, HTML/CSS, iOS, WordPress, Adwords, MySQL, Balsamiq, advanced Excel, Final Cut Pro – regardless of their job position.  If you plan to stay gainfully employed, you better complement that humanities degree with some applicable technical chops.

Both the Size and Quality of Your Network Matter – It’s who you know more than what you know, that gets you ahead in business.  Knowing a small group of folks very well, or a huge smattering of contacts superficially, just won’t cut it.  Meet and stay connected to lots of folks, and invest your time developing as many of those relationships as possible. (TIP: Here is myNetworking Advice)

You Need At Least 3 Professional Mentors – The most guaranteed path to success is to emulate those who’ve achieved what you seek.  You should always have at least 3 people you call mentors who are where you want to be.  Their free guidance and counsel will be the most priceless gift you can receive.  (TIP:  “The Secret to Finding and Keeping Mentors”)

Pick an Idol & Act “As If” – You may not know what to do, but your professional idol does.  I often coach my employees to pick the businessperson they most admire, and act “as if.”  If you were (fill in the blank) how would he or she carry themselves, make decisions, organize his/her day, accomplish goals?  You’ve got to fake it until you make it, so it’s better to fake it as the most accomplished person you could imagine.   (Shout out to Tony Robbins for the tip)

Read More Books, Fewer Tweets/Texts – Your generation consumes information in headlines and 140 characters:  all breadth and no depth.  Creativity, thoughtfulness and thinking skills are freed when you’re forced to read a full book cover to cover.  All the keys to your future success, lay in the past experience of others.  Make sure to read a book a month  (fiction or non-fiction) and your career will blossom.

Spend 25% Less Than You Make – When your material needs meet or exceed your income, you’re sabotaging your ability to really make it big.  Don’t shackle yourself with golden handcuffs (a fancy car or an expensive apartment).  Be willing and able to take 20% less in the short term, if it could mean 200% more earning potential.  You’re nothing more than penny wise and pound-foolish if you pass up an amazing new career opportunity to keep an extra little bit of income.  No matter how much money you make, spend 25% less to support your life.  It’s a guaranteed formula to be less stressed and to always have the flexibility to pursue your dreams.

Your Reputation is Priceless, Don’t Damage It – Over time, your reputation is the most valuable currency you have in business.  It’s the invisible key that either opens or closes doors of professional opportunity.  Especially in an age where everything is forever recorded and accessible, your reputation has to be guarded like the most sacred treasure.  It’s the one item that, once lost, you can never get back.

Social Media is Not a Career – These job titles won’t exist in 5 years. Social media is simply a function of marketing; it helps support branding, ROI or both.  Social media is a means to get more awareness, more users or more revenue.  It’s not an end in itself.  I’d strongly caution against pegging your career trajectory solely to a social media job title.

Skora Running Sneakers

First we fell in love with the city-ready look of Skora, a new “natural” sneaker brand from Portland, Oregon. Then we fell in love with the shoe itself.


Since we received a pair, it is pretty much all we’ve been wearing around town, on the beach or running, to the gym, to work, to yoga. They are super comfortable and light, and they make us feel like we’re floating or walking on clouds. They feel totally natural, almost like being barefoot, only better! And that is just what the designers intended.

Skora was founded by David Sypiewski, a well-funded entrepreneur and formerly injured runner.

His shoes, like so many of the new, minimalist running shoes crowding the market today, are based on the notion that humans were designed to run shoeless, and that most running shoes overcorrect the human foot’s natural ability to adjust and function. Rather than piling up more features, more support, more cushioning and more everything, the minimalist or natural shoe designers start from the bare foot and its inherent abilities.

Skora’s first two models are based on a last that is shaped like the natural arch, and they have no height drop from heel to toe. The mid-foot hits the ground first, not the heel as with most running shoes.

In addition to loving the look of the shoes and loving the amazing feeling of wearing them, we also love their branding. The website is easy to navigate and the entire brand works. We are definitely fans. - Bill Tikos

AARK Collective Watches - Melbourne

Not that anyone really needs a watch to check the time. We all carry more than enough devices that inform us of the time, or more commonly, the lack thereof.

Maybe that is why there is a nice retro feel in the whole idea of wearing a watch. I dare you to rush me! Let me just check the time on my watch and see if I care to rush!


We are certainly fans of cool time pieces here at TCH, so when we were introduced to the Melbourne-based AÃRK Collective our interest was immediate.


We love the minimalist, serious craftsmanship of not just the watches and every detail inside and out, but also the packaging.


The attention to every detail honours the craftsmanship, the timeless craftsmanship, of the entire experience. These are not jewellery or pretentiously magnanimous investment pieces for sheer show-off.


These are practical yet beautiful. Form and function. Minimalist and cool. Just what we love. We’ve ordered our Yolk Yellow watches. Now, if only time would fly a little faster…Tuija Seipell

13 Ways to be Happier

Without realising it, many of our thought habits get in the way of our happiness and cause us to get stuck into negative patterns of thinking. Below we will look at 13 ways we can rewire our thoughts and minds into allowing ourselves to feel the happiness that we deserve, freeing us to live, love and be happy. We will look at how we can liberate ourselves from those thoughts and mental habits that hold us back and hold us down, we will look forward to a better, happier and more positive new us. Follow this advice and not only will you feel better but those around you will too, after all, only a lit candle can light other candles.

1. Let go of your complaining
Throughout the day we could potentially find countless things to complain about, the weather, the traffic, the service we got at a restaurant but how does this constant whinging make things any better for us? Does it make things better for us? Does is make us happier? Or does it just put a downer on our mood and make us feel unhappy, low and depressed? Our mood is in our hands, we can choose to react to any situation however we want, we can allow ourselves to sucked into a negative state of mind or we can rise above that and be happy despite the traffic!

“Tell the negativity committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.” Martin Seligman

2. Let go of having to always be right. 
Many of us struggle with the even the thought of being wrong and will go as far as falling out with dear friends or loved ones solely for the sake of being right. Letting go of this habit will lead to better relationships for all. A sense of serenity in knowing that even though you may have been right, you’ve saved yourself and those around you a great deal of stress, worry and tension in not having to be right or have the last word. Wayne Dyer wrote “Would I rather be right or would I rather be kind?” Think about that next time you find yourself fighting this habit!

3. Let go of any self defeating ideas
Most of the hurdles we face in life are actually ones that we have concocted up in our minds, they are imaginary, unreal and they are what prevent us from moving forward, not our actual circumstances. These imaginary hurdles warp our ideas about what we can and cannot do, what is and what is not possible. We need to learn to see through these hurdles. Then we will be ready to spread our wings and fly!

An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you – Goi Nasu

4. Let go of your fears
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Our fears are unfortunately hindrances that we create for ourselves. Imagine all those hindrances had vanished, how would you feel? Close your eyes and imagine that for just a moment. Feel good? Now try living that way.

Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words and actions is as important as being kind to others.

5. Let go of attachment
Attachments create an atmosphere of fear. You are not reliant on things and allowing yourself to think you are will prevent you from being happy.

6. Let go of making criticism
Refrain from criticising anything and everything that you don’t understand. We are all different and that’s what makes life beautiful; what a boring place this would be if we were all the same. Allow people and things to be different, don’t see difference as an excuse to criticise. We all want to be happy, let’s allow ourselves to be happy and lets allow others to be happy.

7. Let go of blaming 
Stop trying to find reasons for why things are what they are, in looking to explain things away we often try and find fault in something or someone, this negativity harms those around us, but more than anyone else, it harms us!

8. Let go of trying to impress other people
There are so many more important things in life than worrying what someone thinks of our shoes, what you do for a living or the car you drive. These things are not that are going to nurture healthy relationships. What people want from you is to be real, to be yourself, when you drop all pretences you’ll realise that people appreciate you for who you are and you’ll find your relationships are now stronger and deeper.

9. Let go of your excuses
Sometimes we get into the habit of making excuses for the sake of making excuses. We have all the time, resources and energy that we will ever have. We need to take advantage of our youth, good health, wealth, free time and most of all, our lives while we have them!

10. Let go of trying to always control
Situations, events, people; as much as we may try, much of what happens around us cannot be controlled by us and so we must spare ourselves the hassle of trying to think that it can. Let everyone and everything around you just be and you will feel much more relaxed and happier.

11. Let go of the past
Keep things in perspective, never dwelling on the past or being anxious about the future, rather enjoying these precious everyday moments. Today is all you have. Tomorrow has not been promised to you and yesterday has passed you by. So be present in all that you do. Remember, these are the good old days, happiness is not something you can postpone for the future.

12. Let go of resisting change
Every life process entails change. As human beings we often enjoy familiarity and once we become comfortable we become resistant to change. But very little lasts forever and so we have to alway be ready for change, that doesn’t mean we fear it, rather we embrace it whenever it comes knocking at our door, we welcome it in and see it as opportunity, opportunity for something new and better.

13. Let go of living life to other people’s expectations
Too much of our lives is spent trying to fit into social archetypes. We allow the expectations of others determine the job we do, the car we drive, the clothes we wear and much more! How much happier would we be if instead we followed our hearts and did things the way we wanted to do them. We allow our loved ones to dictate to us, our parents, siblings, partners and often we allow influences such as the media or government to dictate to us how we live our lives. We are all talented individuals, we all have something to offer, something unique. Each one of us is gifted. We need to nurture our talents and gifts and contribute through doing what we do best, doing what we love, rather than doing what we think is expected of us.

How Interval Training Can Make You Incredibly Efficient at Work

As a runner, I’ve spent most of my adult life training aerobically, meaning I run for extended periods of time – 30 to 60 minutes – at a pace I find challenging but perfectly tolerable.

But over the last several months, I’ve more often been running anaerobically – in short intervals of 30 and 60 seconds at much higher speeds, with same 30 to 60 seconds of rest between each one. I invest as few as 7 to 10 minutes in my interval workout, and it rarely goes beyond 15.

The reason I’ve shifted is the growing evidence that short, intense workouts are a more efficient way to train. Over the last several months, the New York Times columnist Gretchen Reynoldshas reported on several studies suggesting that high intensity interval workouts as short as four minutes can produce cardiovascular health benefits as great as those from far longer aerobic workouts. I’m a sucker for doing less.

Why should you care if you’re not a runner, and this is a column about the workplace? The answer is I’ve long since learned that what’s true for us physically usually turns out to be equally true mentally and emotionally.

Most of us feel deeply challenged by how to get more done, more efficiently, in a world of relentlessly rising demand. The default answer is to put in more time. But just as that may be counterproductive in workouts, so it is at work.

I wrote about this at length in February, in an article called “Relax, You’ll Be More Productive.” I mentioned the power of working throughout the day in mental intervals, which are focused periods no longer than 90 minutes at a time, followed by a break. I argued that by doing so, it’s possible to get far more accomplished in shorter periods of time.

But here’s the trade-off: Just as running high intensity intervals is demanding, uncomfortable, and nearly unbearable toward the end of each one, focusing single-mindedly on a challenging task in successive intervals is mentally taxing and, at times, exhausting.

The point is that high efficiency requires a much higher tolerance for frequent, short-term discomfort. Most of us instinctively avoid pain of any kind – much less regularly — which helps explain why the majority of us aren’t really great at anything. It is also why we interrupt challenging work so frequently to check our e-mail or check out Facebook or Twitter.

So what’s the trick to overcoming our resistance to pushing ourselves really hard, even for short periods?

The answer is fierce prioritization in the form of rituals. Set up highly specific behaviors you do over and over at precise times so they become automatic as quickly as possible and no longer require conscious intention. As the authors Roy Baumeister, Charles Duhigg and others have written, the more we have to think consciously about doing something, the more rapidly we deplete our severely limited reservoir of will and discipline.

My favorite ritual, for example, is to do the most important thing first every morning, for 90 minutes, and then take a break. I’m in the middle of that interval right now, and at the end of it, I’ll have breakfast. It’s how I prioritize my most important and challenging work at a time of day when I have the most energy to do it, and the fewest distractions.

Prioritizing itself turns out to require time. Part of my evening ritual is to take five to 30 minutes before I leave my office every day to sort through what I’ve done that day, and decide what makes most sense to begin with the next day.

If I try to do that the next morning, I learned long ago that I get distracted by competing possibilities, and end up simply responding to whatever feels most urgent. Likewise, if I don’t get to my highest and most challenging priority first thing in the morning, by the time I do, at the end of the day, I’m usually too tired to do it.

It’s about breaking up your current marathon into short, doable intervals. Tolerate finite periods of focused discomfort so you get more done and you have more time left to savor the rest of your life.

When you’re working, really work. When you’re renewing, truly renew.

TriBeCa Penthouse - New York

Imagine the renovation dilemmas. A huge penthouse of a converted 1930s office building in TriBeCa, New York, is to be turned into a functioning home for a family with three teenagers.

In fact, we can not quite imagine the issues that faced Steven Harris Architects when the family showed up, literally, at the doorstep of the celebrated architect and asked if he’d like to work on their home. Harris said yes and proceeded to make his magic.


The scale of the apartment is huge and the freedom from budget constraints allowed for some spectacular solutions.

Harris’s work is often distinguished by clarity and light, by the use of glass, by the maximization of views and, above all, bold solutions. All of those are evident in this project.

What emerged as a result of the TriBeCa Penthouse project,  is a multi-level (27th and 28th floors) nearly 8,000 square-foot (743 square meter) family-friendly residence that includes self-contained guest quarters and a new glass-and-teak-beam rooftop pavilion that functions as a recreation room.


The most frequently used areas of the apartment – kitchen, master bedroom, rooftop gym, even the laundry room – have the best views, including those of Manhattan and Brooklyn, and many of the city’s significant landmarks.

The double-height living area on the lower floor boasts an 18-foot high window with the view of the Woolworth Building. The room gained its height by necessity because adding the rooftop pavilion took the condominium conversion over its allowable floor area ratio. The team solved this problem by cutting off part of the lower-level ceiling, thus creating the double-height living area.


Harris’s team replaced the existing 70 double-hung windows with single-panel tilt-and-turn versions, and used glass in dividers and doors where-ever possible. The window panes were limited to 61⁄2 by 91⁄2 feet in size because of the size of the building’s freight elevator.

Early on, when the owners and architect realized they were looking at a substantially dramatic remodeling but the owners did not want to move out of the building, the family bought a couple of other apartments in the same building for temporary residence – and had them renovated before move-in, too. Those two apartments are now for sale.

One of our favourites in this apartment are the stairs. They are made of ¾-inch-thick steel plates wrapped in leather. The stairs appear to float in space and take up almost no visual room yet they are also stunning eye-catchers. Stairway to heaven, indeed, or at least toward it. - Tuija Seipell.

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