Drafting Desk Dominance

The private executive penthouse of Stone Designs, situated fifty floors above Columbus Circle in Manhattan, was a sanctuary of dark smoked oak, polished black granite, and floor-to-ceiling glass framing Central Park. Outside, a late-spring thunderstorm rolled across New York City, painting the Manhattan skyline in flashing sheets of silver lightning and pelting the reinforced windows with sheets of rhythmic rain. Inside the private design lab, Sierra Hayes sat perched on…