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cn Fere Designers show how to live it up on the 73rd floor mi' gage Jl.uiwijww iginggra 3l, i 'I BY CELIA MCGEE r1" iiiir1 DAI1Y NEWS FEATURE WRITER I j. I t's a show house dropped into 23 rooms in one of the most expensive apartment buildings recently built here. But, please, DON'Tcallita the art to the custom-made rug, there are smokers and smoke rings; there's also a wine vault with a bronze door, and a slyly positioned likeness of Mayor Bloomberg. The sky-high views have inspired more than a few furnishings with celestial motifs, and the glitter is laid on thick. The two kitchens aren't of the mundane school, either, unless you consider Marc Charbon-net's hand-embroidered, beaded napkins or Sandra Nunner-Iy's Christofle silver backed by mosaic murals everyday.

1 i a fc remember living as a child CHRISTIE JOHNSTON show house. Architectural Digest magazine the organizing powerbro-ker behind "Rooms With a View of Central Park," which opened Wednesday night with a socialite-studded fund-raiser on the 73rd floor of Columbus Circle's unfinished Time Warner Center insists it is a "design exhibit." How about fantasy in the sky? That's how the designers rounded up for the project have treated it. In a place where it's hard to tell where candlelight leaves off and the city's nighttime lights begin, the line between make-believe and reality takes a powder. The rooms are open to the public, and ticket proceeds will benefit the Central Park Conservancy, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. SNAZZY INTERIORS, AND QUITE AN EXTERIOR: Rooms by Marc Charbomet (L) and Thomas Britt can be seen at 1 Central Park at the Time Warner Centec in a modest house and seeing all those Manhattan penthouses in the movies on the late show," says Cullman, who grew up in Brooklyn to become one of the country's most exclusive designers.

"It was the view of the glamorous life in New York. These rooms are the 2 1 st-century version." The three-week exhibit will have three sessions, at 12:30 2 and 3:30 Tickets -are $59 and available only lltttllllllllt der the Rainbow." It comes complete with petit-point "Not Tonight" pillow. Elissa Cullman makes more than the best of her tiny "Den of. devpt-, ed to the lately forbidden New pastime of smoking. From'.

Pierce Brosnan anchors the white lacquer vanity, and a skimpy bikini is hung to dry in the shower built for two. A BEDROOM A DEN OF INIQUITY, Chintz'prince 'Mario 'Buatta calls his -ushy bedroom. VUjh Decorators allotted even the smaller spaces have grabbed the chance to role-play. Victoria Hagan's dressing room and master bath, titled "The Great Escape," are done up for a James-Bond girl. A silver-framed photograph of cr CD ro -O.