And so....I've been absent from my blog since I've been in New York for work. This freezing fabulous visit had me travelling from Manhattan to upstate New York to Connecticut.
No visit to New York is complete without a visit to ABC Carpet & Home Emporium in the Flatiron district. This is my favourite place in the world. It's been likened to walking into a fantasy tour of a very rich and well-travelled ancestor's attic. This two-building emporium is legendary and deserves to be: It's the ultimate home-fashions-and-furnishings department store. On the west side of the street is the stunning 10-floor home emporium. The goods run the gamut from Moroccan mosaic-tile end tables to hand-painted Tuscan pottery to Tiffany-style lamps to distressed bed frames sporting meltingly soft Italian linens to much, much more, all finely displayed. An entire floor of on-the-bolt upholstery fabrics is to die for.
This trip, I got to appreciate the superb design influence the Art Deco period had on Manhattan. As I wandered the streets around midtown I knew that this must have been the epicentre of design in the 1930s.
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| Even footpath surrounds have the deco style |
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| Ambassador Hotel - luxe! |
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| My favourite all time building in New York - the Woolworth Building |
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| Woolworth building foyer - it is a religious experience. It feels like a church chapel |
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| The fabulous exterior of the Woolworth building in downtown |
