Andy Warhol lived here
1 Comments Published by Cedric on Thursday, July 9, 2009 at 7/09/2009 06:07:00 PM.
In 1974 Andy Warhol bought a new house for $310,000 which he paid for outright as, according to Bob Colacello, "he didn't believe in mortgages." The six story brownstone is located at 57 East 66th Street, between Madison and Park avenue.
Andy's boyfriend, Jed Johnson, moved in with Warhol - his bedroom was on the third floor, like Andy's, and done "rather severely" in Mission oak. Jed was in charge of decorating their new home:
"Andy constantly complained about how much money Jed was spending, even though the style he had chosen, American Empire (Early 19th Century), was still completely undiscovered and, for the most part, unwanted. Most of the pieces Jed bought cost between a couple of hundred and a couple of thousand dollars... Of course, once it became known that Andy Warhol's house was done in American Empire, and that Yves Saint Laurent had asked Jed to do his new Hotel Pierre apartment in the same style, the prices started climbing and never stopped."
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You know it.
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Amidst a quite weathered 1898 semicircular exedra portico of neo-Renaissance style sits the bust of Richard Morris Hunt, an American architect of great prominence whose defining signature emulated the French Beaux-Arts style and who created some of the finest private residencies and mansions in the US.
Hunt was, according to design critic Paul Goldberger writing in The New York Times, "American architecture's first, and in many ways its greatest, statesman." Aside from Hunt's sculpting of the face of New York City, including designs for the facade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and many Fifth Avenue mansions lost to the wrecking ball, Hunt founded both the American Institute of Architects and the Municipal Art Society.
Hunt became the first American to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Hunt's mentor Lefuel later permitted him to supervise work on the Louvre museum, which Lefuel and Louis Visconti were renovating for Napoleon III.
Hunt became the first American to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Hunt's mentor Lefuel later permitted him to supervise work on the Louvre museum, which Lefuel and Louis Visconti were renovating for Napoleon III.
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On the corner of west 58th street and 7th avenue stands one of New Yorks most elaborate terra cotta facaded buildings. A flamboyant profusion of details covers the appartment building in a French Renaissance style. In 1910, when it was completed, the building had only two large apartments (with 14 rooms and 5 baths each) per floor, with carved Caen stone, marble and fine wood paneling.
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Map Room, New York Public Library
2 Comments Published by Cedric on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 7/08/2009 06:08:00 PM.
Established in 1898, the Map Division of the NYPL today holds some 431,000 maps, 16,000 atlases and books about cartography. The collection is international in scope, and dates from the 16th century to the present, with a focus on cities, especially New York City. The map room reopened in 2005 after a $5 million restoration, and is designated as the largest map collection in any public library in the world.
Labels: Architecture Instant Love, Interiors, libraries, New York, photography
An Afternoon at the Met
4 Comments Published by Cedric on Monday, July 6, 2009 at 7/06/2009 04:12:00 AM.
Enjoy a little photostream of beautiful objects and curious things that catch our eye as we wander through the freshly remastered halls of the American Wing and other areas of interest.
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The Brooklyn Historical Society is located in downtown Brooklyn's historic district in Brooklyn Heights. The Queen Anne style building was completed in 1881 by architect George B. Post, a student of Richard Morris Hunt, who used an extensive unglazed terra cotta ornamentation on the facade and was the first building in New York City to use locally produced terra cotta.
The building is one of the few examples of the 19th century genre of a combined museum and library still in existence and is a designated national hisotirc landmark since 1991.
Post is also famous for having built the New York Stock Exchange building on Wall Street, but most of his buildings in NY didn't survive into our time.
The building in 1882
A few other pretty facades in the same area of Brooklyn Heights
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New New York Architecture
0 Comments Published by Cedric on Sunday, July 5, 2009 at 7/05/2009 05:33:00 PM.
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The urban dictionary defines the word "cupcakey" as : 'a good feeling that you get inside; unbeleivable happiness.' Combine that feeling with actually eating cupcakes and you double the pleasure almost to infinity. A feeling so cupcakey it's almost illegal. Those cupcakes are nearly the size of your entire face and thus not that easy to stuff your mouth with, especially if you try to stay clean while doing so. The people at the Downtown Atlantic bakery really know how to get you to try them by setting up a big sign saying "You know you want one!"
Erik and me tried the stuffed lemon butter cupcakes (picture below) and were in culinary heaven, sitting on a bench and looking like 2 schoolkids with buttercream around our faces. This place doesn't bear the title 'New York's best cupcakes' for nothing.
Visit Downtown Atlantic, they have an amazing selection of other pastries and an excellent restaurant.
Downtown Atlantic
364 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Labels: BROOKLYN, food, New York, restaurants
The firework celebrations for Manhattan are only a few hours away. A special year, for the city is celebrating 400 years since Henry Hudson sailed up his eponymous river.
Labels: celebrations, Newspaperism
Forty Third Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn
0 Comments Published by Cedric on at 7/05/2009 12:44:00 AM.
A little urbanistic research at the Pratt Institute Library
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From Grand Army Plaza to Prospect Park
1 Comments Published by Cedric on Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 7/04/2009 11:20:00 PM.
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York is an oval plaza that forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867 and was meant as a gateway, to separate the noisy city from the calm nature of the Park. The Plaza was one of the first features of Prospect Park to be built and marks the beginning of the Eastern Parkway (1866), the world’s first parkway, also designed by Vaux and Olmsted.
Originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, but renamed in 1926, it is best known for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Brooklyn’s version of the Arc de Triomphe.
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The Park Slope District, centering about the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, has been since the mid-nineteenth century Brooklyn's "Gold Coast." In the quiet streets off the plaza are rows of residences that rival the mansions on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. A somber-hued wonderland of finials, pinnacles, pediments, towers, turrets, bay windows, stoops, and porticoes, filled with richly imaginative brick dwellings such as the ones on Carroll Street and Montgomery Place. The mansions, churches, and clubs that still remain, and the remarkably varied row houses form one of the most fascinating and architecturally rich neighborhoods in all of Brooklyn.
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Founded in 1838 on the idea of Henry Brooklyn social leader Evelyn Pierrepoint as one of America’s first rural cemeteries, the Green-Wood Cemetery soon developed an international reputation for its magnificent beauty and became the fashionable place to be buried. By 1860, Green-Wood was attracting 500,000 visitors a year, rivaling Niagara Falls as the country’s greatest tourist attraction. Many famous people were buried there, among them F. A. O. Schwarz of toy fame, Samuel Morse of code fame, Boss Tweed of corruption fame and Louis Comfort Tiffany of stained glass fame.
Palm Court, Plaza Hotel
1 Comments Published by Cedric on Friday, July 3, 2009 at 7/03/2009 06:58:00 PM.
The fabulous, yet temporarily closed down Palm Court restaurant.
The underperforming eatery had struggled to attract customers since reopening a year ago. In its brief life after the $400 million renovation that re-launched the hotel, the Palm Court has changed everything from its menu to its furniture, finally ceasing dinner service last August.
Labels: Interiors, New York, restaurants
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Kurious Kitties inda room
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Celebrating 40 YEARS of GAY PRIDE in New York since Stonewall
2 Comments Published by Cedric on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 6/30/2009 09:26:00 PM.
On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, New York celebrated Gay Pride with a 5 hour long parade and thousands of participants.
The March began as an annual civil rights demonstration beginning the year after the Stonewall Riots in 1970. Over the years its purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to the illness, violence and neglect. It has also evolved to include being a celebration of our lives and our community.
NY state governor David Patterson and mayor Bloomberg marching along
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Jeffersonian style
greetings from Monticello
PCM
thermogaz
safety zone saints
gargoyles meet
hi-tech religion
freemasons
searching
freemasons
wooden houses
pretty doors
corner dragon
the L
2571
Rubinstein & Klein
waiting
lines
Manhattan Beach
sailing
waiting
L style
frame
saviour
Richardsonesque
goin to the bank
blurry splendor
mmmh...
...cheesecake
Benito in Red Hook
Jesus of the flora
Red Hook kitty
Brunts and Dykes
greetings from Monticello
PCM
thermogaz
safety zone saints
gargoyles meet
hi-tech religion
freemasons
searching
freemasons
wooden houses
pretty doors
corner dragon
the L
2571
Rubinstein & Klein
waiting
lines
Manhattan Beach
sailing
waiting
L style
frame
saviour
Richardsonesque
goin to the bank
blurry splendor
mmmh...
...cheesecake
Benito in Red Hook
Jesus of the flora
Red Hook kitty
Brunts and Dykes
Labels: BROOKLYN, New York, New York street stuff, photography
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Brooklyn Discovery Tour part II
1 Comments Published by Cedric on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 6/29/2009 11:54:00 PM.
Fort Greene walking tour. The mural.
the corner
the shovels
the shovel circle
the shovel mural
the naked guys
the lamp
the sullivanesque decor
the pencil
the details
the Pratt pergola
the townhouse
the general store
the products
missing
liquor store
pediment pleasure
it's the law
brownstoned Erik
steps
perspective
globe detail
the corner
the shovels
the shovel circle
the shovel mural
the naked guys
the lamp
the sullivanesque decor
the pencil
the details
the Pratt pergola
the townhouse
the general store
the products
missing
liquor store
pediment pleasure
it's the law
brownstoned Erik
steps
perspective
globe detail
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I am a Brooklynite!
3 Comments Published by Cedric on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 6/27/2009 04:52:00 PM.
Morning newspapering at the diner
JFK fried chicken
street sculpture
they hate Elmo
one way
lady liberty
Greenwood gates
Kohl
chapel
gothic
BAM
old and new
music
savings
shop talk and art
lost cart
Rocky's
scripture wall
french garment cleaners
it's following me everywhere I go
JFK fried chicken
street sculpture
they hate Elmo
one way
lady liberty
Greenwood gates
Kohl
chapel
gothic
BAM
old and new
music
savings
shop talk and art
lost cart
Rocky's
scripture wall
french garment cleaners
it's following me everywhere I go
Labels: Architecture shot, BROOKLYN, New York, New York street stuff, photography
At the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where Jackson first performed with his brothers at age 9 in 1969, the billboard was cleared for the message "In Memory of Michael Jackson. A True Apollo Legend." People gathered here all night to moonwalk and sing songs, celebrating the king of pop in a big get-together.Labels: celebrations, Music, New York
Off to New Horizons!
5 Comments Published by Cedric on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 6/24/2009 01:10:00 AM.
In less than 24 hours I will be back in NY. I will leave tomorrow morning and head to CDG, then fly to Philly and onwards to LaGuardia where Erik is coming to pick me up and get me to my new home for the next 2 months. Exciting! Farewell Paris!
Labels: Holiday Travels, New York
Yes, when I tend to get bored I start building little weird creatures out of Viollet-le-Duc's 'Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Architecture Française', just like any normal person would do. So enjoy my little robots before they take over a church plan near you!
Labels: Architecture Instant Love, Art, personal drawings + cartoons, things that can happen if you stare directly into the sun
