This is Part II in a three-part series. Please click here for part I Messages came in to me from all over the country on my answering machine at home and many of the people had made strangers of themselves in recent years. A remote cousin from out West even got hold [...]
13 years ago, I had no idea how external events would change me and affect my life forever. Though I started out handling it the stoic way I learned to deal with crisis as a child, this event turned out to not be containable. No, I didn’t have a loved one that died in the towers, [...]
This is Part III in a three-part series. Please click here for part I In the morning for the next three days, I rush to breakfast at the last possible minute because I have been up late the night before. Regardless of how little sleep I have had, I want to [...]
This is Part II in a three-part series. Please click here for part I I have just enough time to unpack and prepare for the first formal event of the International Art Deco Society being held in the Salon on the main floor of the Hotel. It’s a totally packed stand [...]
I don’t often see New York, my city, at 4:30 in the morning- empty streets, towers of dark windows and the sparkling necklace round Manhattan when I look back over the East River as we zip across the 59th Street Bridge. The bodegas are open in Queens and the “party palaces” beckon with flashing neon, [...]
Many clients have asked me how I learned so much about construction and I have told them about how fortunate I was to have been involved with building a home when I was about nine years old. For several years, I have been working on a book of memoirs and recently wrote the following story [...]
After visiting Vienna last year for the first time, I have wanted to know more about the Secession Movement and Wiener Werkstätte that influenced so much of the art and architecture of Vienna around the 1900’s. Luckily for me, the Neue Galerie Museum has an exhibition of Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907. There is [...]
I took these photos about 2 months ago. Every week I go for my voice lessons in this building on 9th Ave between 44th & 45th St and one day I realized that I just take the lobby for granted! So, I would like to bring this tiny accessible Art Deco gem to everyone's attention. [...]
[raw] The combination of beautiful buildings and a couple of spectacular days weather wise in NYC refueled my inspiration. I went to a private showing for professionals to see the newly restored lobby of the Deco era Verizon Headquarters building on Tuesday morning. Located so close to the 9/11 bombed World Trade Center that the 140 West [...]
This is Part III in a three-part series. Please click here for part I During my time there, the Embassy makes calls for me to the U.S., contacting my bank to close the account on my debit card that was in my stolen purse and taking care of all the other [...]
