“The custom-made sideboard has hidden panels on either side that can be cranked open to display keys and keyholes.”
From the article: “Things are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue. At first blush the family that occupies it looks to be very much of a type…But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough…”
[ Mystery on Fifth Avenue, in the New York Times ]
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