- Gebundene Ausgabe: 247 Seiten
- Verlag: Images Pub (1. November 2008)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1864702761
- ISBN-13: 978-1864702767
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 28,7 x 28,7 x 2,5 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 358.309 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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New York City's architecture from the eighteenth century to the present is as culturally diverse as the generations who have called it home. Each architectural component has been manifested in limitless variety and the history of the world's most eclectic city unfolds in these details. "Window on the Park" is a compendium of the most architecturally distinguished buildings that line Central Park and comprise New York's most expensive addresses. With world-class photography and design, author D. Fitzgerald shares her rare access into some of the most luxurious urban residences in the world. A coffee-table book for anyone who appreciates New York City's finest architecture, a wealth of inside information for those who may seek to dwell there, a default history of some of the most famous and interesting New Yorkers who have lived or live there now, "Window on the Park" is a must read.
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New York City's architecture from the eighteenth century to the present is as culturally diverse as the generations who have called it home. Each architectural component has been manifested in limitless variety and the history of the world's most eclectic city unfolds in these details. "Window on the Park" is a compendium of the most architecturally distinguished buildings that line Central Park and comprise New York's most expensive addresses. With world-class photography and design, author D. Fitzgerald shares her rare access into some of the most luxurious urban residences in the world. A coffee-table book for anyone who appreciates New York City's finest architecture, a wealth of inside information for those who may seek to dwell there, a default history of some of the most famous and interesting New Yorkers who have lived or live there now, "Window on the Park" is a must read.
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interiors of New York City's most desirable residences
27. Januar 2009
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
At the bottom of the copyright page in small letters is, "The information and illustrations in this publication have been prepared and supplied by the author." So that's how Fitzgerald did it! That is, the photographs of rooms in some of the most exclusive, classiest buildings in the world. The author (no first name or sex given anywhere) is in the field of New York real estate. So presumably he or she was able to gain access to the rooms denied to nearly all others. And despite the author's occupation, the photographs are not typical promotional, real-estate photographs. They are of interest to building historians, architects, and interior designers. For the photographs show features of the rooms such as bookcases, windows, doorways, and ceilings and also the high-end furnishings of couches, chairs, wall hangings, table-top items, and drapes. The brief text for each building and its apartments gives information not found in the photographs. This includes mostly historical or architectural notes on construction, style, and dimensions of rooms and details of outer or interior parts not displayed in photographs--e. g., "The dining room features Baroque-era shell niches on each side of the fireplace...."
The exterior shots, too, are not your typical promotional photos. Fitzgerald captures particular parts of buildings and architectural or decorative details such as ornate outside window frames or statuary. With many buildings, the author captures also the entrance with its awning or covered walkway.
The 51 buildings pictured border Central Park from several blocks north of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue across Central Park South and up Central Park West a few blocks north of the famed Dakota and the nearby American Museum of Natural History. The Dakota was so named because when it was built, it was regarded as so far from the center of activity of New York City someone compared it to the Dakotas out West. Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Lauren Bacall, and Leonard Bernstein are among the famous artists who have been attracted to it. The exclusive buildings along Fifth Avenue are known as The Museum Mile. Besides the Metropolitan, interspersed among them are the Guggenheim, the Frick, the Jewish Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Fitzgerald includes these as notable buildings (which they are) even though the are not residences.
Well-chosen photographs and information-packed text work together to relate why it is that these residences along New York's Central Park have their worldclass status.
The exterior shots, too, are not your typical promotional photos. Fitzgerald captures particular parts of buildings and architectural or decorative details such as ornate outside window frames or statuary. With many buildings, the author captures also the entrance with its awning or covered walkway.
The 51 buildings pictured border Central Park from several blocks north of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue across Central Park South and up Central Park West a few blocks north of the famed Dakota and the nearby American Museum of Natural History. The Dakota was so named because when it was built, it was regarded as so far from the center of activity of New York City someone compared it to the Dakotas out West. Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Lauren Bacall, and Leonard Bernstein are among the famous artists who have been attracted to it. The exclusive buildings along Fifth Avenue are known as The Museum Mile. Besides the Metropolitan, interspersed among them are the Guggenheim, the Frick, the Jewish Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Fitzgerald includes these as notable buildings (which they are) even though the are not residences.
Well-chosen photographs and information-packed text work together to relate why it is that these residences along New York's Central Park have their worldclass status.
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Go where you've never been but always wanted to go
15. März 2010
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
This is a beautifully written, well researched and excellently photographed book of the homes that line Central Park.
It offers a chance to be inside the buildings and apartments that overlook the famed Central Park that mere mortals can only imagine.
Highly recommended to anyone who has been to New York and walked along the park.
Would that we all lived so well.
It offers a chance to be inside the buildings and apartments that overlook the famed Central Park that mere mortals can only imagine.
Highly recommended to anyone who has been to New York and walked along the park.
Would that we all lived so well.
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Beautiful but Superficial!
16. Mai 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Potential buyers should be aware that this coffee table book is definitely made to be looked at rather than read from cover to cover.
Well laid-out, it includes multiple large colour photos of many buildings among those that frame Central Park, including interiors.
The actual written content however is very light: a little architecture, a little interior decorating, a little history, a little name-dropping.
Despite the attractive rendering, it turns out as well that little attention was given to production. For instance,
* some photos are captioned, most are not;
* at least one photo is reversed with the Empire State Building showing up in the window on the wrong side of the street (page 13);
* here and there, pathetic grammatical mistakes occur such as `the area of the park measures 2.5 miles long by half a mile wide' (page 134) and `the building is mostly comprised of two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments' (page 203).
Also, the book's rigid organization with similar information and photos systematically presented for each building in the same order makes it rather repetitious and in the end somewhat tedious.
All in all, this book is recommended to all curious about the lifestyle of rich and famous New Yorkers who have only limited time to grant to the topic.
Well laid-out, it includes multiple large colour photos of many buildings among those that frame Central Park, including interiors.
The actual written content however is very light: a little architecture, a little interior decorating, a little history, a little name-dropping.
Despite the attractive rendering, it turns out as well that little attention was given to production. For instance,
* some photos are captioned, most are not;
* at least one photo is reversed with the Empire State Building showing up in the window on the wrong side of the street (page 13);
* here and there, pathetic grammatical mistakes occur such as `the area of the park measures 2.5 miles long by half a mile wide' (page 134) and `the building is mostly comprised of two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments' (page 203).
Also, the book's rigid organization with similar information and photos systematically presented for each building in the same order makes it rather repetitious and in the end somewhat tedious.
All in all, this book is recommended to all curious about the lifestyle of rich and famous New Yorkers who have only limited time to grant to the topic.
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