Lots 72-74 are from the apartment that Steven Holl designed for Ryoko Itakura in 1986-1987. The siting and profile of the Museum Tower in which it is located informed the design of the apartment around what GA Architect explained as the “X, Y and Z directions.” Understood as axial lines, dimensions or simply through the shapes of the letters themselves, they formed the relational basis for the apartment’s plan and interior elements; as GA states they were presented “in a variety of ways- literal, poetic, systematic, intuitive.” In the same year and for the same client, Holl also designed the Giada shop at 904 Madison Avenue. At the time New York Magazine called the space as “dazzling as a gemstone and just as calculatingly cut,” succinctly describing the clarity of Holl’s work, as evident in the present lots as it is anywhere else.