At 262 Fifth Avenue, space is the ultimate luxury. The 860-foot tower in central New York contains just 26 residences across 52 storeys, with each home occupying at least one full floor. With no shared walls, the apartments open to light and views in every direction.
The NoMad tower is the first American residential project by Meganom and Copenhagen-based Norm Architects. Designed as a “sanctuary in the sky,” its generous proportions and double-height spaces feel expansive yet remarkably private.
Molteni&C shapes the experience throughout. Founded in Brianza in 1934, the Italian design house brings a quiet precision to the interiors, beginning with the Prime kitchen. Natural stone and wood veneer give it warmth, while a continuous finger recess wraps around the cabinetry, removing the need for visible handles.
Norm Architects has centred the design around a sense of contemporary restraint, with pieces from Molteni&C’s Heritage Collection completing this sensibility perfectly. Gio Ponti’s D.154.2 armchair, originally created for the famed Villa Planchart in Caracas, sits alongside the D.151.4, originally designed for Italy’s great ocean liners.
Elsewhere, Vincent Van Duysen’s hand-finished Aster coffee table and Gliss Master wardrobes and walk-in closets bring the same sense of thoughtful design to the private spaces. The Monk armchair and Panna Cotta coffee table complete the collection with their sculptural, understated forms.
Centred on the enduring ease of Italian design, the architecture and interiors at 262 Fifth Avenue ensure it feels less like a conventional residential tower and more like a secluded private home – just one that happens to be suspended high above Manhattan.
