Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Venetian Cake - Pompeii Pink



Let me get on the bandwagon.
Julian Schnabel has built a building in NYC and the neighbors don't like it. Big news.
Big building. Big color.
Schnabel is a big artist. He needs those 18ft ceilings!
Seriously, Schnabel is a great big artist, a great big filmmaker, a big man with vision and there is always complaint - frenzied even - about someone doing something that commands attention.
Well it seems in building construction the man is as attentive to aesthetic detail as in anything else. Give it time, and the neighbors will learn to love it too. Italian stylings, 18ft ceilings, 3ft walls, French windows, brass railings, and 17 storys red. Well, yessir it's a big building -and I like it.

360 W 11th St. NYC
*photo for The Villager by Lincoln Anderson