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Nicholas Kirkwood’s NYC Meatpacking District Boutique

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After its recent opening in Mayfair London, celebrity luxury shoemaker Nicholas Kirkwood inaugurated this week its boutique in New York’s hip Meatpacking District, precisely at 830, Washington Street. The boutique covers 140 sqm and follows the creative design concept of the flagship store in Mayfair, London.

The store stocks the brand’s complete collection, as well as collaborations with Prabal Gurung, Rodarte, and the Keith Haring Foundation. Kirkwood explained to WWD that he decided to take all those shoes to Meatpacking because he couldn’t find a street he liked in Soho, and uptown spaces were just too small. The store is designed to emphasize space: “I like the idea of doing something else that you can kind of walk around and explore it,” Nicholas Kirkwood said. “It kind of has a gallery-esque feeling, without being quite as cold as a gallery.”

“The brand sought an exclusive location similar to its London boutique and found this in the Meatpacking District, where there is a growing co-tenancy of designer labels including Jeffery’s, Intermix, Zac Posen, Scoop, Ports 1961, Christian Louboutin, Maison Martin Margiela, among others,” said RKF Vice President Joshua Strauss. “The new boutique at 807 Washington features exposed brick walls and a wrap-around window looking onto a private courtyard and will provide the perfect setting for its first U.S. location.”

The designer footwear boutique is conveniently located adjacent to The High Line above-ground park and steps from the proposed Whitney Museum of Art, The Standard Hotel, SoHo House, and The Gansevoort Hotel, as well as a unique blend of premier hotel destinations, top restaurants and high-profile designer outposts.


One World Trade Center Becomes New York’s Tallest Building

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One World Trade Center is set to eclipse the Empire State Building as New York’s tallest building Monday afternoon, officials said. As long as the weather cooperates, the tower will surpass the 1,250-foot Empire State Building at 2 p.m. on its way to a final height of 1,776 feet. “It’s wonderful,” Mayor Bloomberg said Sunday. “It’s taken a long time. This is probably the most complex construction site in any place ever. I think what we’ve shown is that democracy works.” – Via NYDaily News


Through the Lens of Francesca Woodman, Guggenheim Museum

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Although she only studied photography for about five years prior to her death, mainly as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, Francesca Woodman left behind more than 800 negatives. Many of these photos have never been seen by the public, until now. Her parents, both artists, have protected her work for decades, granting only select permissions to reproduce her work, waiting for the right venue to showcase their daughter’s collection. The first major U.S. museum exhibition of Woodman’s work in 25 years, the ‘Through the Lens of Francesca Woodman’ exhibit is now at the Guggenheim Museum in New York where it will be through June 13.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is pleased to announce the afternoon symposium Art in the 1970s: Through the Lens of Francesca Woodman, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Francesca Woodman, on view through June 13.

On Friday, May 18, beginning at 4pm, scholars and artists examine the relationship between the still and moving image in Francesca Woodman’s and other artists’ production during the 1970s, particularly as associated with Post-Minimalism, performance, and video. Using the framework of Woodman’s work, which the New York Times calls “a rare and beautiful thing,” this series of brief talks and group conversations reconsiders artistic video in the 1970s, notions of time and space in Woodman’s work, and feminist practice during the transformative artistic juncture of the period. Woodman’s recently released short videos will be screened.

Organized by Jennifer Blessing, Senior Curator, Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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Daily Dream Home – Schein Loft, New York

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Here’s a look inside the new Schein Loft, located in Manhattan, New York, and designed by Archi-Tectonics. Housed in a very modern building, the architects of course went with an equally modern interior. What we enjoy the most though, is the inclusion of the mountain-chic look in the apartment, especially of course seen in the heavy used of wood on the walls, as well as the fire place.


Inside Derek Jeter’s NYC Penthouse – Daily Dream Home

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Here’s a look inside Derek Jeter’s 88th-floor penthouse atop Trump World Tower at UN Plaza on the East Side. The Yankee’s 5,425-square-foot bachelor pad includes 360-degree views of Manhattan, four bedrooms, 5 1/2 baths, an eat-in kitchen, a fireplace and incredible views of New York. The apartment has just gone back on the market for a discounted $17.95 million, down from the $20 million price of two years ago. Jeter purchased the apartment for $12.72 million in 2001, buying it directly from Donald Trump.


Diner des Grands Chefs in New York

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About 45 top chefs from around the world will descend on New York City next month to cook for 450 guests in a dinner meant to carry on a tradition first set last year at the Chateau de Versailles.

After pulling off a decadent dinner for 890 guests at the historic palace to celebrate the inauguration of French gastronomy into UNESCO’s World Heritage List last year, organizers of the Relais & Chateaux Dîner des Grands Chefs have decided to carry on the tradition, this time in New York.

The dinner takes place in Gotham Hall April 16, and tickets cost $1,500 a person.

Here are the participating chefs:

Christophe Bacquié, Hôtel du Castellet, France
Patrick Bertron, Le Relais Bernard Loiseau, France
Claude Bosi, Hibiscus, United Kingdom
Daniel Boulud, Daniel, United States
William Bradley, Addison, United States
Thomas Bühner, Restaurant La Vie, Germany
Pierre Carrier, Hameau Albert 1er, France
Jonathan Cartwright, The White Barn Inn & Spa, United States
Jean-André Charial, Oustau de Baumanière, France
Lanshu Chen, Le Moût Restaurant, Taiwan
Jacques Chibois, La Bastide Saint-Antoine, France
Christopher Coutanceau, Restaurant Richard et Christopher Coutanceau, France
Gary Danko, Gary Danko, United States
Andrew Fairlie, Restaurant Andrew Fairlie, United Kingdom
Annie Féolde & Riccardo Monco, Restaurant Enoteca Pinchiorri, Italy
Jonathan Gushue, Langdon Hall Country House Hotel and Spa, Canada
Thomas Henkelmann, Homestead Inn – Thomas Henkelmann, United States
Patrick Henriroux, La Pyramide, France
Jean Joho, Everest, United States
Michel Kayser, Restaurant Alexandre, France
James Kent, Eleven Madison Park, United States
Jean-Georges Klein, L’Arnsbourg – Hotel K, France
Christopher Kostow, Meadowood Napa Valley, United States
Mark Ladner & Tony Scotto, Del Posto, United States
Normand Laprise, Restaurant Toqué!, Canada
Joseph Lenn, Blackberry Farm, United States
Barbara Lynch, Menton, United States
Stéphane Mazières, Hôtel Le Toiny, French West Indies
Marc Meneau, L’Espérance, France
Toni Mörwald, Mörwald «Kloster Und», Austria
Norbert Niederkofler, Hotel & Spa Rosa Alpina, Italy
Patrick O’Connell, The Inn at Little Washington, United States
Jacques Pourcel, Le Jardin des Sens, France
Emmanuel Renaut, Flocons de Sel, France
Jean-Luc Rocha, Château Cordeillan-Bages, France
Georges-Victor Schmitt, Au Soldat de l’an 2, France
Yoshinori Shibuya, La Bécasse, Japan
Emmanuel Stroobant, Saint Pierre, Singapore
Peter Tempelhoff, The Cellars-Hohenort Hotel, South Africa
Gunnar Thompson, Château du Sureau, United States
César Troisgros, Maison Troisgros, France
Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Jean Georges, United States
Michael White, Marea, United States
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kobe Kitano Hotel, Japan


Discover No Knead Pizza With Jim Lahey

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Pizza has become an American classic. From its Italian origins it is now the food of both family dinners and celebrations. Most if the time, whether we go out or have it delivered, we let someone else do the cooking. Grocery stores sell take and bake pizzas, frozen pizzas, pizza dough, canned sauce and pre-shredded cheese so we can enjoy pizza at home but it always pales in comparison to the real deal. If, however, you want to make real pizza with a crisp crust and bubbling sauce, Jim Lahey is prepared to teach you in his new book My Pizza out later this month. He is famous for his no-knead recipes as much for his devotion to the floured arts.

In December 2011, New York magazine ran an article on Lahey titled “The Mad Baker of Sullivan Street” referring to the name of his New York City bakery. When it comes to bread, Lahey is serious, obsessive and yes, a little nuts, but the result of all of that is some seriously good pizza. His pizzeria Co., also in New York, turns out crispy charred crust beauties that may spoil you for anything else. Lahey says you can make these pizzas at home but, like a television fitness trainer exhorting the armchair athlete to feel the burn, he says you have to be ready to work hard to get results.

Pizza is a deceptively simple food. A bread base, sauce, cheese and toppings. But as Lahey shows, when it comes to pizza, the devil is in the details. A pizza stone is required as are good quality ingredients. Perhaps the most important component is a thorough understanding of heat and how to cook the pizza so that it is charred but not burned. And yes, the dough is no-knead but it also requires a day of rising at room temperature to achieve its full magic (the recipe is available on Bon Appetit this month).

Lahey begins with simple red sauce recipes that give new pizza makers a chance to focus on the basics. Then he moves on to white sauce pizzas. Both the red and white pizza sauce recipes also include a wide variety of specialty ingredients that outclass most of the humble pies in your local shop. His most wildly inventive pizzas might be the ones with no sauce at all such as the birds nest pizza topped with shaved asparagus, quail eggs and two types of cheese.

For a book devoted to pizza there’s also a surprising amount of space devoted to accompaniments including pea soup, an asparagus and avocado salad and baby octopus with purslane and pink peppercorn dressing. A final chapter on desserts seems more like an afterthought but even here Lahey can’t resist a closing touch of delicious madness, cranking up the oven to 500 degrees for his chocolate chip cookies and topping his olive oil cake with black olives.

For those in need of further instruction, Lahey is teaching his Pizza Essentials class in New York on March 24.


Daily Dream Home – Residence in Montauk

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Sotheby’s provides great inspiration when it comes to beautiful, expensive residences. Finding a beautiful home while searching for your future residence or just browsing photos to draw inspiration for a specific room, means spending a lot of time online, time you don’t usually have. We present amazing houses daily, just like this Residence in Montauk, New York. Surrounded by lush vegetation, the contemporary residential structure can be yours for $9,950,000.

Overlooking the fascinating ocean, this luxurious residence has four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms, perfect for a small family and their guests. Sliding glass doors open to the back and the front of the property, making the interiors seem part of the outdoors. Extensive use of glass ensures interiors flooded with light and wonderful views, while a set of stairs leads down to the beach, where there is nothing standing between you and the horizon. Custom designed to fit a modern lifestyle, this Residence in Montauk spreads over 4,585 square feet.


Luxury Hotels & Social Media: The Plaza Hotel

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We’re entering a new age in luxury hotel marketing. Top-tier hotels are now using Twitter for concierge services, social geo-locating platforms to unlock free gifts, Facebook for customer service and YouTube to showcase unique properties. They are finding new, large and responsive audiences across the social web. No doubt, luxury travel’s latest destination is online.

Yet who is leading the charge in this recent wave of innovative hotel social media strategies? What are their methods and how are they finding success? In our ongoing series “Luxury Hotels & Social Media,” Pursuitist is interviewing the top luxe hotel leaders (Four Seasons, The Peninsula, Waldorf Astoria and many more) to gain insight into the online strategies of the industry’s elite.

Today’s interview is with Lily Lorenzo, Marketing and Communications Manager, The Plaza Hotel

Q. Why is Social Media important for your company? 


A. Countless guests and patrons from around the world have created memories at The Plaza and allowed us to be part of their most intimate occasions. Naturally, there is a sense that a piece of The Plaza belongs to them and social media allows us to maintain the bond, keeping the lines of communication open no matter where they call home or how often they come back to visit.

Q. How many people manage your social media channels & what types of tools do you use? 


The Marketing & Communications manager, serves as The Plaza’s voice across all Social Media channels.

Q. What has been the most effective content to engage users?

A. The Plaza Facebook fans love Plaza trivia! Whether it’s questions on The Plaza’s movie credits, early 19th century history or architectural and design influences, consumers are at the ready to share their Plaza expertise. Luckily, The Plaza has 105 years of content we can pull from to keep challenging our audience.

Q. What measurable results or successes have you seen due to Social Media?

A. My successes are most apparent when I am interacting with a current or even past guest on Twitter or Facebook because of the importance they place on having this additional outlet or resource for information that did not exist five, six, seven years ago. At the same time, it is an additional medium by which we can recognize our guests, past, present and future.


Mandarin Oriental, New York

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They say you never get a second chance to make a first impression. At Mandarin Oriental, New York, they don’t need a second chance.

When the elevator opens onto the 35th floor lobby, you will genuinely feel as though your head is in the clouds. There may be no better view of the legendary Manhattan skyline anywhere in New York. With floor-to-ceiling windows, it’s the perfect showcase for views of all the skyscrapers, plus Central Park and the Hudson River.

If you can manage to tear yourself from the view, be sure and take a look up to the ceiling in the lobby, which should be on the list of amazing attractions: a massive, spectacular chandelier made from Waterford Crystal.

Situated in the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, which interestingly enough is the point where all distances to and from Manhattan are measured, Mandarin Oriental, New York is literally at the center of it all. The modern Asian-influenced décor resonates throughout the hotel, and the impeccable service never disappoints.

Once you’re done giving your eyes a workout it will be time for the rest of your body, so explore the state-of-the art workout facility and 75-foot lap pool, then rejuvenate and feel as if you are floating in midair at the bi-level spa, featuring a VIP Spa Suite for two, a Thai-yoga room, and holistic treatments with the freshest ingredients.

While New York is a Mecca of fine cuisine, you won’t be but an elevator ride away from the outstanding Asiate, offering contemporary, Asian-influenced gourmet cuisine. Then, walk off your dinner with a stop in Central Park, a green oasis located directly across the street, or take an easy stroll to Broadway and catch a show.

Whether you are an out-of-town guest or just seeking a spectacular getaway in your own backyard, with a combination of award-winning service, decadent luxury and the ideal city location in the world’s most exciting city, Mandarin Oriental, New York is an absolute must.