The best things @thewintershownyc last night, all at Hill-Stone. Chalk drawing by Naldini, 1537. Strauss opera maquette (movable scenery!), a Florentine ink study, and a tiny Tiepolo (GD, not GB). I’m thinking of dressing like the man in #4 for
Somebody on Coronado has good taste in cars... and a fondness for pastel.
Already homesick for the Del. Visited as an infant, as a penniless teen sprinting through the lobby on the way to the beach, and now as a parent. If you look the other way from the new villas (ugh 🤢) it hasn’t changed in decades.
Becalmed 🌴
Oysters under Guastavino Tiles = best station lunch
A little moment of NYC insta-drama outside my window this afternoon. Filed under ‘I can’t believe I work here’. The Art Deco building in the shade (lower foreground) is by George & Edward Blum. More on this in another post...
Things are looking a bit 19th Century over here on West 38th street.
Egon Scheile, Houses & Pines, 1915. At Richard Nagy. Looking quite a lot like a page from Pierro Ventura’s Magic Well. Happily the best thing at @thesalonny
6 hours in London yesterday, too many pictures to show. This is not far off Fleet Street - drawing a total blank on the architect. But loving the overlapping scales of steel sash over tiny metal grid.
A wet morning spent at Basildon Park. Late 1770s. Carr of York. Interiors spoiled by pestering and intrusive docents. 😤
Good morning England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
The Guercino show ... worth it just for this. On blue paper!