stuck in midtown manhattan?

got 20 minutes to kill?

fellas, r u a "shop widow" like i often am?  :laugh:

if so here is something that is always interesting:

 

this is artist tom sachs having some fun at the lever house, the quintessential international style ‘scraper.

 

about, making of, installation of, yada yada:

 

http://www.leverhouseartcollection.com/#/collection-51

http://www.tomsachs.org/exhibition/bronze-collection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs_%28artist%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_House

 

http://www.casalever.com/

 

*** so if you like your art & architecture and are wandering in midtown around e54th&park be sure to check out the lever house!

note sachs has left the building & the current show is:  richard woods -- until 1/30/2010 ***

 

 

note...it's Casa Lever now.  Lever house went under and "casa lever" reopened under new ownership.

^ umm, no mts.

 

you can rest assured that is and always will be the lever house.

 

'casa lever' is an adjacent restaurant that is not only pictured but even linked...which you would have caught had you taken the ritalin today and waited more than two seconds to respond before you mucked yet another post with misinformation!  :wink:

^ umm, no mts.

 

you can rest assured that is and always will be the lever house.

 

'casa lever' is an adjacent restaurant that is not only pictured but even linked...which you would have caught had you taken the ritalin today and waited more than two seconds to respond before you mucked yet another post with misinformation!  ;)

 

Sweetie, the restaurant that casa lever is, WAS the Lever House restaurant.

^I think mts was just referring to the restaurant Casa Lever which was originally called "Lever House," right?

 

oops, late again!

 

and ps. I did see the Tom Sachs show.

^I think mts was just referring to the restaurant Casa Lever which was originally called "Lever House," right?

 

oops, late again!

 

and ps. I did see the Tom Sachs show.

 

Thank You! 

 

I think some of that Chelsea/WV/Meatpacking bitchy dust is rubbing of on mrnyc!

^ umm, no mts.

 

you can rest assured that is and always will be the lever house.

 

'casa lever' is an adjacent restaurant that is not only pictured but even linked...which you would have caught had you taken the ritalin today and waited more than two seconds to respond before you mucked yet another post with misinformation! ;)

 

Sweetie, the restaurant that casa lever is, WAS the Lever House restaurant.

 

so good of you to clarify your remark after you missed both the casa lever restaurant photo and the link. as if the lever house went under...pssht...my, my.

 

 

^ umm, no mts.

 

you can rest assured that is and always will be the lever house.

 

'casa lever' is an adjacent restaurant that is not only pictured but even linked...which you would have caught had you taken the ritalin today and waited more than two seconds to respond before you mucked yet another post with misinformation!  ;)

 

Sweetie, the restaurant that casa lever is, WAS the Lever House restaurant.

 

so good of you to clarify your remark after you missed both the casa lever restaurant photo and the link. as if the lever house went under...pssht...my, my.

 

 

 

Sweetie, those links were there when i initially posted.  However, my point has been made the restaurant has changed names.  :P :P

Cool!  The art installations often blow, but I love Lever House [the building].  There's just something about walking on that stretch of Park that always makes me happy.

Cool!  The art installations often blow, but I love Lever House [the building].  There's just something about walking on that stretch of Park that always makes me happy.

 

Really.  I think with the exception of the W-A the strip sucks until you reach 67 or so.  Whenever I go to the NFL and look out to the street is like east ninth, but worse.

^ umm, no mts.

 

you can rest assured that is and always will be the lever house.

 

'casa lever' is an adjacent restaurant that is not only pictured but even linked...which you would have caught had you taken the ritalin today and waited more than two seconds to respond before you mucked yet another post with misinformation!  ;)

 

Sweetie, the restaurant that casa lever is, WAS the Lever House restaurant.

 

so good of you to clarify your remark after you missed both the casa lever restaurant photo and the link. as if the lever house went under...pssht...my, my.

 

 

 

Sweetie, those links were there when i initially posted.  However, my point has been made the restaurant has changed names.  :P :P

 

why i have to ask to to clarify your thread-mucking irrelevant point...! don't confuse the touristas!  :whip:

 

lever house is a great place to visit that people often overlook!

Cool! The art installations often blow, but I love Lever House [the building]. There's just something about walking on that stretch of Park that always makes me happy.

 

Really. I think with the exception of the W-A the strip sucks until you reach 67 or so. Whenever I go to the NFL and look out to the street is like east ninth, but worse.

 

I just like the mix of old landmarks (WA, St. Barts, Athletic Club) and modern landmarks (Lever, Seagram).  Good light and wide sidewalks without much retail.  I hate the lack of pedestrian walk/don't walk signs though.

every time I walk down that stretch of Park I think of TV shows set in New York in the 60's--my "era" :roll:--like "Bewitched" and "That Girl"--probably because so many of those buildings with their plazas and fountains (what ever that style was, "internationalist?") date back to that era and evoke that big corporate feel of that time.

every time I walk down that stretch of Park I think of TV shows set in New York in the 60's--my "era" ::) --like "Bewitched" and "That Girl"--probably because so many of those buildings with their plazas and fountains (what ever that style was, "internationalist?") date back to that era and evoke that big corporate feel of that time.

 

I have that kind of feeling also.  There used to be news shows that used PA as news lead in.

every time I walk down that stretch of Park I think of TV shows set in New York in the 60's--my "era" :roll:--like "Bewitched" and "That Girl"--probably because so many of those buildings with their plazas and fountains (what ever that style was, "internationalist?") date back to that era and evoke that big corporate feel of that time.

 

Funny- I had been thinking that a similar feeling I get is one of the reasons I like walking on that stretch.  It makes me think of the great old William H Whyte video about the plaza in front of Seagram Building.  And of the optimism of 1950s and early 60s international style skyscrapers generally.

yeah the park ave vista definately still does have that feel.

 

however, its a shame that the views of lever house itself are mucked up by its blah post-modern neighbors.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9rapJrbNRA&hl=en_US&fs=1

You can see the set staff telling folks to back up.  They probably shot that 15 or 20 times.

I visited the Art Institute of Chicago yesterday with my niece. They have a beautiful architect's model of Lever House in the Architecture section.

 

There's Also an architect's final model of the Inland Steel Building in Chicago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9rapJrbNRA&hl=en_US&fs=1

 

aah ted bessell. who remembers 'me and the chimp' or 'the ted bessell show?' not even ted, he's dead.

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078783/