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Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street. Known and celebrated for many of the apartment buildings on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, and in Sutton Place—82 in NYC, including the storied 740 Park, sometimes called the richest and most powerful address in New York and whose famous residents included John D. Rockefeller Jr.—Candela’s work is at once timeless and profoundly of its time. Classical in styling and even modest on the exterior, it is on the insides, in the apartment interiors, the floorplans, the extraordinary and frequently luxurious arrangements of rooms and space, where his designs set a standard that serves as a benchmark and aspirational goal of taste and refinement. The authors explore these seminal spaces through the lens of exteriors and urbanism, planning and interior architecture, and the circumstances and stories of creation. Lavish and comprehensive black-and-white vintage photography as well as color imagery of the exteriors, original plans, and a collection of exceptional interior views give historical perspective (including a seductive Slim Aarons' Park Avenue streetscape) and contemporary sizzle (as seen in Derry Moore’s depiction of K. K. Auchincloss’s penthouse at 1040 Fifth). The story told is of a genius designer who gave form to the New York of his dreams.

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""In the 1920s and 1930s, architect Rosario Candela created a group of apartment buildings that remain some of the most prestigious addresses in New York City including those on Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, and Sutton Place. Paul Golderberge, Peter Pennoyer, and Town & Country contributor David Netto explore Candela's works through the lens of exteriors and urbanism, interior architecture, and more. There's a new wave of contemporary buildings changing the New York skyline, and this book takes a look at what is defined as timeless architecture by looking back a century."" ~TOWN AND COUNTRY ""In Barcelona it is Antoni Gaudí. London has John Nash. In New York, the architect synonymous with the city’s most distinguished private addresses is Rosario Candela. The Italian-American’s pre-World War II Upper East Side apartment blocks, the brick-and-limestone stone façades discreetly embellished with Italianate details, epitomise old-money, patrician elegance. The New York of dreams."" ~WORLD OF INTERIORS

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David Netto is an AD 100 interior designer and author. He writes the Case Studies column for Town & Country. Paul Goldberger, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, is contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Peter Pennoyer is an architect, writer, educator, and AD 100 designer. Aerin Lauder is the style and image director for the Estée Lauder Companies.

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