READ THIS: NEW YORK APARTMENTS: Private Views By Jamee Gregory Photography by Mick Hales Design by Charles Davey Another Hit by Rizzoli
Though this was published in 2004, NEW YORK APARTMENTS: Private Views is a truely timeless work. It embodies impeccable design taste and offers the reader a glimpse inside what very few people really get to see...the apartments to die for, of course. If you've read the ELOISE books that we keep talking about, you know who has the BEST apartment in New York, but other than her, there are quite a few others from the uppercrust who have apartments to admire and they are found in this great work! Another hit by Rizzoli, New York Apartments starts off with a total dream overlooking Central Park that you'll want to step right into. There are some great personalities featured that do even better work like Scott Snyder; you remember Peachy made friends with him on her birthday and even got him to drink her:
http://www.whomyouknow.com/2011/01/i-drank-peachy-deegan-scott-snyder.html
We love the fantastical winter garden green room on page 30-32 it is to die for; you would want to be surrounded by this serenity morning, noon and night. Mario Buatta is mentioned and we love his work; we know him from nights out on the town here; here he is with our pal Jean Shafiroff:
***
He does a great job in this book of "making it English"...we want the bathtub on page 67! This books boasts something for everyone, whether you are into the English look, a totally modern one, indulgences from the Orient or something totally splendid. We really loved Joan Rivers's apartment! This entire work as a whole is entirely gracious and will delight every person with a taste for better living. Whom You Know highly recommends New York Apartments!
***
Author Jamee Gregory is intimately familiar with the luxe lifestyle of New York Apartments, because this is the milieu in which Gregory herself lives, and she has been a guest in each of the homes featured in these pages.
This book is a fascinating—and beautifully photographed—insider’s view of the homes of sophisticated people who can afford the very best of the best. Prominent New Yorkers featured include Academy Award-winner Martin Richards, television personality Joan Rivers, political powerhouse Georgette Mosbacher, Whitney Museum Director Emeritus Tom Armstrong, avant-garde director Robert Wilson, and philanthropist Carroll Petrie.
Located all over New York City, many of the apartments are in historically significant buildings designed by the likes of Rosario Candela, and all show the hand of contemporary architects and design masters like Charles Gwathmey, Thierry Despont, Alan Wantzenberg, Albert Hadley, Mario Buatta, and the late Mark Hampton, and Jed Johnson.
Included are Friederike Kemp Biggs’ Park Avenue triplex that feels more like a gracious country manor than an apartment, with an elegant dining room lined in hand-painted panels, a library with floor to ceiling shelves of precious books, and a kitchen filled with rare blue and white export porcelain; Lisa Perry’s hyper-mod apartment with the flavor of a “cool airport lounge,” a small museum’s worth of important modern art by the likes of Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Wesselman, and Warhol, a fifteen-foot coffered ceiling floating above a fur-carpeted “conversation pit,” and a private dressing room that looks—and is stocked like—a chic Madison Avenue boutique.
From crisply modern homes adhering to a rigorously clean-lined aesthetic, to formally traditional apartments rich with silk brocade and glittering chandeliers, Jamee Gregory has assembled a collection of residences that documents a remarkable way of life in New York City at the beginning of a new century.
About the Author: Jamee Gregory, former Director of Special Events at Sotheby’s, is contributing editor to Elle Décor, and has written for Town & Country, Avenue, Quest, Gotham, and Women’s Wear Daily. Ms. Gregory is on the boards of many important charitable organizations including the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Central Park Conservancy, Venetian Heritage Foundation, and the Boy’s Club of New York, and maintains homes in New York City and in Southampton. Internationally recognized photographer Mick Hales shoots gardens and interiors for publications from Architectural Digest to Verandah. Designer Charles Davey has produced many books including Palm Beach, published by Rizzoli (2003).
Credit for images from the book must read: © Mick Hales, NEW YORK APARTMENTS: Private Views
by Jamee Gregory, designed by Charles Davey, Rizzoli New York, 2003.
NEW YORK APARTMENTS: Private Views
By Jamee Gregory
Photography by Mick Hales
Designed by Charles Davey
Hardcover 9.25” x 11.5” / 208 pages / 270 color and black & white photos
$50 US, $70 Canadian
Rizzoli New York
ISBN: 0-8478-2663-5
Release date: December 2004
This book is a fascinating—and beautifully photographed—insider’s view of the homes of sophisticated people who can afford the very best of the best. Prominent New Yorkers featured include Academy Award-winner Martin Richards, television personality Joan Rivers, political powerhouse Georgette Mosbacher, Whitney Museum Director Emeritus Tom Armstrong, avant-garde director Robert Wilson, and philanthropist Carroll Petrie.
Located all over New York City, many of the apartments are in historically significant buildings designed by the likes of Rosario Candela, and all show the hand of contemporary architects and design masters like Charles Gwathmey, Thierry Despont, Alan Wantzenberg, Albert Hadley, Mario Buatta, and the late Mark Hampton, and Jed Johnson.
Included are Friederike Kemp Biggs’ Park Avenue triplex that feels more like a gracious country manor than an apartment, with an elegant dining room lined in hand-painted panels, a library with floor to ceiling shelves of precious books, and a kitchen filled with rare blue and white export porcelain; Lisa Perry’s hyper-mod apartment with the flavor of a “cool airport lounge,” a small museum’s worth of important modern art by the likes of Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Wesselman, and Warhol, a fifteen-foot coffered ceiling floating above a fur-carpeted “conversation pit,” and a private dressing room that looks—and is stocked like—a chic Madison Avenue boutique.
From crisply modern homes adhering to a rigorously clean-lined aesthetic, to formally traditional apartments rich with silk brocade and glittering chandeliers, Jamee Gregory has assembled a collection of residences that documents a remarkable way of life in New York City at the beginning of a new century.
About the Author: Jamee Gregory, former Director of Special Events at Sotheby’s, is contributing editor to Elle Décor, and has written for Town & Country, Avenue, Quest, Gotham, and Women’s Wear Daily. Ms. Gregory is on the boards of many important charitable organizations including the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Central Park Conservancy, Venetian Heritage Foundation, and the Boy’s Club of New York, and maintains homes in New York City and in Southampton. Internationally recognized photographer Mick Hales shoots gardens and interiors for publications from Architectural Digest to Verandah. Designer Charles Davey has produced many books including Palm Beach, published by Rizzoli (2003).
Credit for images from the book must read: © Mick Hales, NEW YORK APARTMENTS: Private Views
by Jamee Gregory, designed by Charles Davey, Rizzoli New York, 2003.
NEW YORK APARTMENTS: Private Views
By Jamee Gregory
Photography by Mick Hales
Designed by Charles Davey
Hardcover 9.25” x 11.5” / 208 pages / 270 color and black & white photos
$50 US, $70 Canadian
Rizzoli New York
ISBN: 0-8478-2663-5
Release date: December 2004
