The pyramid-shaped apartment atop the Smith Tower in Pioneer Square is available to rent. All you need is about $17,000 every month and you too can live somewhere impossible to hang stuff on the walls!
The inside of this place is bonkers, we had a chance to get a tour when the former resident Petra Franklin hosted living room shows in her living room! It's two bedroom and two baths feature secret doors where children were popping out to surprise guests coming up the stairs. Evidently the master bathroom has a tub that looks out a window to the gorgeous sunset lit Mt Rainier (when it's out.)
Kris Orlowski performs an acoustic set at the top of the Smith Tower in the penthouse apartment
No longer hanging but a spectacle when it was, Dale Chihuly gifted the family quite the chandelier perfect for the strangest high-ceilings out there!
That gifted Chihuly chandelier, now packed and moved on, fills the otherwise oddly empty space in the penthouse apartment of the Smith Tower.
If you look at the people lining the top there, that's a catwalk that takes you to a ladder that brings you up to a small two (small) people nook in a class enclosure just below the blinking light at the top of the tower. I got up there, got my shoulders caught in the opening, freaked out, and headed back down without photos. Sorry about that.
One odd element of the design is the placement of art - you can't hang your posters on the wall too easily without being disoriented if the wall slope in on you like that. Something to consider!
If you are the lucky one to take over the lease, please do cool stuff with it. For 17k, it's too much to pay to not treat the world to a bit of last-pandemic-era charm.
