enterprisesoreo.blogg.se

You don’t have to sell it because the real thing is in front of you.”Īs New York continues to grow and change, it’s comforting to know that some things remain the same, like the handsome, solid, serene designs of Rosario Candela. Some clients may not know the name Rosario Candela, but they recognize the quality when they get there. “As the head of a real-estate firm, I can say that people feel that when they walk in. “When you enter an apartment, there is a harmonious flow, a graceful movement,” says Elizabeth Stribling, chairman of Stribling & Associates. “You know you’ve arrived when you get into a Candela building,” observes curator Albrecht.

Virtually all of Candela’s 75 apartment buildings still stand, many now protected with New York City Landmark status. "I’m working on a Candela apartment now and we are knocking out two maid’s rooms to create an eat-in kitchen, but the public spaces are perfect as they are," she says. There are no awkward moments." Williams observes that the way people live today has changed so that a housekeeper’s wing is no longer de rigueur-yet Candela's spaces retain their appeal. "You have a freedom because they are so lovely. “They’re easy to furnish because you have such great-shaped, balanced rooms," she says. Courtesy of the New York Real Estate Brochure Collection, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.įor a decorator, designing such a space is a pleasure, notes interior designer Bunny Williams, who has worked in many Candela buildings. “Inside and out, the detailing of Candela’s interiors and the façade expressions were really, really good,” says Stern.ġ5th floor plan at 740 Park Avenue. The arched entrance of the main lobby at Candela’s 770 Park Avenue and the water towers at 770 and 778 Park, which form cupolas, are echoed at The Chatham, Stern’s East 65th Street building. For the romantic rooftop skyline of his 15 Central Park West, Stern looked for inspiration to Candela’s 1040 Fifth Avenue, with its rooftop loggia and asymmetrical handling of the chimney. Stern Architects and former dean of the Yale School of Architecture, who notes that Candela sometimes collaborated on buildings with other architects. Stern, founder and senior partner of Robert A. His interior planning is always distinguished,” says Robert A. “Candela’s signature is most clearly felt in his careful arrangement of rooms that flow in a logical way separating the family quarters from places of entertainment. And it creates these romantic tower-like temples hovering over the city, proving that you should always look up in New York.” “The buildings get small as they get to the top, resulting in wonderful terraces, which all seem to be in the right place. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York (gift of Gottscho-Schleisner, 88.)Īdditionally, Pennoyer notes, because of zoning laws, Candela was required to create rooftop setbacks. Overlooking the terrace of Elizabeth Arden's penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue, 1933. Real-estate developers who were also Italian-born gave Candela more important commissions, and by the late 1920s, he was the architect of choice for luxury apartments, employing 50 draftsmen. Candela established his own practice in 1920 and his first major commission was the Clayton, an apartment building at Broadway and 92nd Street, in 1922. Nevertheless, he graduated from the Columbia University School of Architecture in 1915. Organized by Donald Albrecht, the museum’s curator of Architecture and Design, and designed by Peter Pennoyer Architects, this exhibition is more than a celebration of Candela’s iconic work-it shows how he shaped luxurious city living in ways that still resonate today.īorn in Palermo, Sicily, in 1890, Candela immigrated to New York in 1909 with just $20 in his pocket and hardly any knowledge of English. Opening May 17, “Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela” at the Museum of the City of New York is the first exhibition devoted to the masterful designer. In the 1920s and '30s, architect Rosario Candela designed many sophisticated apartment buildings in New York that are still some of the most desirable addresses in the city.