Richard and Ab Rogers commissioned a ladder that would allow them to perch at a height above a room or outside that was comfortable enough that they could write, look, drink, eat dinner, work on a computer – or even sleep. 

Inspired by the saying by M. Kundera, 'The absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being', Ab and Richard asked Xenia to design a ladder to help explore the lost corners of a room.

They also wanted it to be very economical with materials. They liked the idea of a ladder because, said Ab Rogers, ‘it is a simple diagram of how to get you off the ground’ and they liked the fact that it ‘borrows’ its structural stability from a wall. Given the wish to DO so much at the top of the ladder, it needed to be like an inversion of a fruit picking ladder – wide at the top and narrower at the bottom.