“He defines the buildings of Jazz Age New York.”

“Candela defined an era,” said Donald Albrecht, curator of “ Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela,” an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York that spotlights the architect’s contributions to luxury housing and the city skyline. But by the 1920s, a growing number of elite New Yorkers were making the transition from private homes to apartment buildings - and it was the architect Rosario Candela who set fashionable new standards for how they lived, including at 1 Sutton Place South, which he helped design.

Phipps Guest had resided at her brother’s five-story mansion off Fifth Avenue at 6 E. The new 13-story residential building had its own private yacht landing on the East River, and the apartment’s original floor plan showed no fewer than two ballrooms and a 30-foot dining room, all of which poured out onto an expansive roof terrace. In 1927, the socialite Amy Phipps Guest - whose father, Henry Phipps, was a partner of Andrew Carnegie - took over the crown-jewel penthouse at 1 Sutton Place South. Michigan’s thatched 'Mushroom House' hits the market for $4.5MĪs prices soar, NYC buyers turn to soul-less, cookie-cutter units We built a cottage in our backyard and shipped it to the Bahamasīrazilian architect’s shocking find after buying $2,600 coffee table

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