On the panel were Peter Pennoyer, designer of the exhibit, and principal in Peter Pennoyer Architects, the award-winning firm which specializes in classical architecture and historic restoration Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic and editor, currently a contributor to Vanity Fair, and chair of Design and Architecture at The New School and Elizabeth Stribling, chairman of Stribling & Associates, Ltd., a luxury real estate company. Albrecht considered Rosario Candela the architect of New York’s Art Deco style and “the New York-iest New Yorker you can find.” He aptly described his work as “suave urbanism that defines New York in the prewar period,” during the Jazz Age of the 1920s. In a talk at the museum on a beautiful June evening, Mr. Known for elegant and harmonious proportions, high ceilings, setbacks, and spacious apartments with river views, Albrecht noted that in the classical Candela buildings, “even water towers were encased in highly decorated tombs.” Organized by Donald Albrecht, the museum’s esteemed curator of architecture and design, the show is a treat for those living in Rosario Candela’s buildings, and those who wish they did. It so happens Gumley Haft manages 10 neighboring buildings to Rosario Candela apartment houses, and we are equally enamored of his style. The graceful architecture of Rosario Candela established the apartment building as a fashionable residence for the affluent, with attributes similar to a private house. With 75 buildings to his credit, most were built on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Sutton Place. "Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela" is on view from May 17 through October 28 at Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, New York City.Rosario Candela, the architect who defines 1920s Art Deco grandeur in highly desirous prewar buildings in New York, finally gets his due at the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibit, Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela. In offering a comprehensive exploration of the designs that helped shape an elegant era in the city’s history, the exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York honors the lasting contributions of a self-made visionary. 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.
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