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In a Long Island, N.Y., village called Old Westbury, at the end of a long drive lined with Gatsby-like Georgian manses, stands a glass-walled International Style house that still looks like the future. Edward Durell Stone, best remembered as the architect of Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, designed the house as a weekend retreat for industrialist and art collector A. Conger Goodyear, who founded the Museum of Modern Art and served as its first president (the two first worked together on the museum’s designs). Though the residence is revered as a landmark structure—The New Yorker’s architecture critic, Paul Goldberger, called it “one of the most important houses built in the United States between the two world wars”—until last month it had not been inhabited since Goodyear’s death in 1964. In the 1970s, the Goodyear family donated it to the New York Institute of Technology, which sold it in 1997 to a Long Island developer. The developer’s plans to level the 6,000-square-foot house and build mansions on four-acre plots was thwarted by the World Monuments Fund, which placed the house on its 2002 watch list of endangered properties. With funding from the Barnett Newman Foundation, among others, the organization bought the estate in 2005. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Modernist house has changed owners several times in the past six years; most recently, real estate developer and art collector Aby Rosen purchased it in October. (If you're in the market, one of the only remaining Stone houses in Washington, D.C., is currently listed at Sotheby's for $6.9 million.)
About The Galleria, 117 East 57th Street One of the city's most daring and innovative buildings, the 57-story Galleria was the city's first very complex mixed-use building. It includes a public galleria, 8 floors of offices, a health club and 47 floors of condominium apartments in a package that is as dramatic and elegant at its base as it is awkward and strange at its top. Many of the apartments were distinguished by the city's first major use of "wintergarden" rooms that basically were living rooms that expanded onto normal balcony areas that were glass-enclosed with curved roofs. The unusual top of the tower was especially designed as a 16,000-square-foot quadruplex penthouse for Stewart Mott, a General Motors heir with an interest in philanthropy and gardens. The building's pre-Deconstructivist top is strange, if not ugly. If it had smokestacks, it might look like debris from a scuttled battleship with its flying bridges and turrets. The look resulted from the complexity of Mott's layout. Mott, whose landscaping demands required added structural strengthening for the tower, subsequently did not move into his spectacular dream penthouse. That added a bit of intrigue to the midtown skyline, albeit with little deference to its noble neighbor to the immediate west, the Ritz Tower, which occupies the northeast corner at 57th Street and Park Avenue, or its elegant neighbor to the immediate east, the office building with the concave front on the northwest corner of 57th Street and Lexington Avenue, which was also built, a few years later, by the Galleria's developers. The apartment was eventually occupied, only to be put back on the market without much success for quite a long time. In late 1997, David Copperfield, the magician, bought it.
1984 Rolls Royce Camargue 531 built from 1975 through 1986 Price new $ 158,600 6.75 Litre V8 engine rear-wheel-drive The Camargue Coupe was the most expensive standard wheelbase model, exceeding the Corniche convertible in price. Designed by Pininfarina, the Camargue featured a slightly slanted grille An estimated 146 Camargues were sold in the United States during its model run.
THE DAKODA
MINT 9-ROOM DAKOTA RESIDENCE This pristine apartment in the legendary Dakota offers grand-scale rooms in a graceful layout. The residence is in perfect move-in condition and the original 19th century architectural details have been carefully preserved. The 9-room home features 5 woodburning fireplaces, exquisite Mahogany woodworking, 12-foot ceilings, 10-foot doorways, original plaster moldings, and original Ash and Mahogany doors, baseboards and floors. One enters the apartment through a private vestibule which leads to a gallery, opening onto the public rooms of the home. The grand living room has American Cherry Wood paneling, a fireplace and floor-to-ceiling windows with a Juliet balcony. A corridor and a set of pocket doors separates the living room from the adjacent library, which also has a fireplace. A 23-foot formal dining room with a fireplace may be found along the Eastern wing of the home and features an exquisite coffered ceiling and tall pocket doors. The vast e...
1977 Lincoln Continental
Fixed Glass Moonroof Option At a Glance: Years Available: 1977-1979 Model Availability: All Lincoln Continental 2-Door and 4-Door models (except Mark V) Option Price: 1977: $954 (early production); $960 (later production) 1978: $1,027 1979: $1,088 Glass Tint Colors: (Researching) Dimensions: 31" on 2-Door models 23" on 4-Door models Number Built: 1977: 2-Door models 1,347; 4-Door models 1,591 1978: (Researching) 1979: (Researching) In what would have to be considered one of the more unusual options offered by Lincoln in the late seventies, the Fixed Glass Moonroof was made available for those who desired the additional light and views a glass panel roof would offer, but without any of the potential drawbacks (like wind noise and the fear of water leaks) that a power-operated Moonroof that opened and closed might present. Despite being offered for three years, the fixed glass panel is very rare in comparison to the one that opened to admit fresh air. Apparentl...
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Her father is Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne, and the eldest son of Diana Mitford Mosley and Bryan Guinness. Diana was the daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, the father of the celebrated Mitford sisters. Guinness's mother, Jonathan's second wife, was Suzanne Lisney (died 2005), of Cadaques, Spain, and Paris. Lisney was an artist and muse to Man Ray and Dali. When Daphne was 13, she became aware that she had a further three half-siblings by Susan "Shoe" Taylor, her father’s mistress.[1] Guinness is the granddaughter of The Hon. Diana Mitford, who first married Bryan Walter Guinness. Mitford divorced Guinness and married the leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley. Daphne has said she did not know of Mosley's political affiliations, before she heard, in 1980, on the BBC news that he had died.[1] Her great-aunt Jessica gave her a taste for music, literature and politics. Jessica Mitford's causes included her involveme...
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Mmm Mmm Guinness You could say she was born a household name, but Daphne Guinness was always something of a fashion-world secret…until this year. When the brewing heiress recently dyed her signature badger-stripe hairdo jet-black, it caused gasps around the blogosphere. In October, meanwhile, she opened Giles Deacon's Spring 2010 runway show in Paris, and she just landed the ad campaign for Akris' debut handbag collection, shot by her collaborator pal Steven Klein. The way Guinness worked those Alexander McQueen lobster claw platforms at the party she co-hosted for François Nars' 15x15 book, the designer should consider putting her in his campaign, too. We doubt she'd turn him down, but she has bigger things in mind, i.e., building brand Daphne. Presumably, all of this exposure isn't hurting sales of her limited-edition Comme des Garçons fragrance.
LEGENDARY PH W/ WRAP AROUND TERRACES This spectacular 10 room apartment represents the entire top floor of the legendary Marjorie Merriweather Post triplex designed by the architectural firm of Rouse and Goldstone in 1926 at the top of one of New York's most prestigious co-operatives. Located on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street, the apartment has 360 degree panoramic views and one of the largest terraces in the city.One enters the apartment through a private landing leading to a large gallery with access to the library, living room, dining room and kitchen. The living room, fitted with exquisite French Regence Period (1715-1723) carved oak boiserie and a corner wood burning fireplace, faces south and west and has French doors leading to the wide South Terrace, ideal for outdoor dining, with amazing views of the Reservoir, the West Side and the southern skyline. Beside the living room, there is a library with wood burning fireplace and a full bath, and a corridor leading to the master bedroom, its boudoir (both rooms with wood burning fireplaces and fitted with 18th century French carved wood doors and trumeaux) and an en suite bathroom. All the major rooms face directly on to Central Park and overlook the West Terrace with its continuous open balustrade.The southern end of the apartment comprises the dining room with adjacent butler's pantry, a staff room and bath, and the kitchen with access to the enormous South East terrace. Also accessed from the central private landing is a guest suite comprising a living room, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen. It has a door to the large North East Terrace and the wide North Terrace, all with superb views of the upper East Side. The flexible floor plan, the breath-taking views, the astonishing terraces, the superb location, the period details, the historic provenance, all contribute to making this apartment one of the most exciting and important residences on the upper East Side.
