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"On the Sets of Tower Heist\nHow the designers of the new action comedy starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy created the quintessential power apartment for a crooked Wall Street billionaire\n\"Composed sophistication were the defining buzzwords that inspired our journey toward the creation of Arthur Shaw's penthouse,\" says Lederman, \"and the concept can be felt in all the design and decor choices, including the color palette, furniture, and of course, art.\" Ebony-tone hardwood floors provide a striking contrast to the soft gray walls, while the furniture palette was predominantly neutrals\u2014creams, shades of gray, black. \"The final effect was extremely pleasing to the eye, light on top, dark on bottom, and a full spectrum of neutrals in between,\" Lederman says.\nThe design team mixed antiques and vintage modern pieces with contemporary works of art to create \"an atmosphere of rich sophistication,\" Lederman says. The designers bought or rented pieces such as an Austrian Biedermeier ebonized secretary cabinet and a 1940s Italian burl wood\u2013veneered sideboard from Manhattan shops Newel antiques and Lillian August.\nArt played an integral role in establishing Shaw's character and symbolizing his vast fortune. Director Brett Ratner, a collector himself, had very specific artworks in mind. The designers commissioned reproductions of works by modern and contemporary masters such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The pi\u00E8ce de r\u00E9sistance, Lederman says, was a Francis Bacon triptych. The large painting on the wall in the foreground is a copy of Roy Lichtenstein's Peace Through Chemistry, from 1970.\nParked in the living room of the multimillion-dollar penthouse is the crown jewel of Shaw's collection: a rare 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso, once owned by the actor Steve McQueen. The actual car, which sold at Christie's in 2007 for $2.3 million (and reportedly later traded hands privately for $10 million) was painted in a metallic brown. But for the film the designers used Ferrari's signature eye-popping red. Zea notes that because the car was the focal point of the room, they placed it on a satin-finish steel disk in the floor \"to enhance its place of primacy.\"\nA reproduction of Francesco Clemente's painting Onyx Dream hangs in the apartment's front hall, where the design team constructed a three-story elevator shaft\u2014with fully functional elevator cars.\nThe apartment's kitchen boasts copies of works by Basquiat and Clemente. Zea chose Basquiat's Eyes and Eggs partly because it \"seemed like a perfect painting for the kitchen\" but also because it worked as \"a secret ironic statement.\" The painting, she explains, actually depicts an underpaid cook. Lederman notes that they introduced occasional splashes of color, including the kitchen's red glass countertop and the red tones in the Clemente painting, Alba."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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