Designers Offer Suggestions for Interiors of the Ascent

Designers Offer Suggestions for Interiors of the Ascent
The 10th floor of a Covington riverfront tower had the aura of a Paris fashion show Tuesday, without the willowy models.

Nine of the region's top design studios on Tuesday unveiled their suggestions for condominium interiors for architect Daniel Libeskind's 22-story tower, the Ascent at Roebling's Bridge.

Bittners, of O'Bryonville, offered a "new traditional" design, with a "comfortable and artistic" feel. Martin Douglas Designs and Bova International combined with a feng shui vision featuring Italian furniture.

Other studios found their influences in Japanese gardens, the building's views of downtown Cincinnati, and traditional home comfort.

Libeskind wasn't present, but his interior-design suggestions for the building also were displayed.

The star of the day, designers seemed to agree, was the proposed crescent-shaped building itself.

The basement excavation now complete; it is to open in September 2007.

Fifty-two percent of its units have been sold.

Remaining units are available from about $500,000 to $5 million.

"This truly is an amazing building for this city," said Mike Willis of M. Willis Fine Art & Design in Oakley.

"I just got back from Chicago.

He said I had to get back for this, and people in Chicago are aware of this design.