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Rosario Candela & The New York Apartment: 1927-1937 The Architecture of the Age

Author David Netto and Paul Goldberger and Peter Pennoyer, Foreword by Aerin Lauder

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.

About The Author

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.

Publish Date: October 15, 2024
Format: Hardcover
Category: Architecture - Interior Design - General
Publisher: Rizzoli
Trim Size: 10 x 12
Pages: 304
US Price: $85.00
CDN Price: $115.00
ISBN: 978-0-8478-6782-0

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Reviews

"As Aerin Lauder states in her foreword to this volume, you may recognize Rosario Candela’s buildings before you recognize his name. It’s not that big of a stretch to say that the architect and cryptographer was the sculptor-at-large for New York’s famous Park Avenue skyline, and the categorical prewar apartments so highly sought after today. With some of today’s leading architectural and critical minds as guides, this title offers a compelling history of Candela’s important work, offering context through ideas on urbanism, planning, and more." — ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST

"ELLE DECOR A-List designer David Netto gives a tour of Upper East Side buildings designed by Rosario Candela, the Italian-American architect who shaped the New York City skyline throughout the 1920s. Each chapter gives readers the history and a glimpse inside those buildings with floor plans and photos of the interiors of its famed residents, including Sid and Anne Bass’s apartment decorated by Mark Hampton, fashion designer Bill Blass, and the Lorenzo Mongiardino–designed home of Marella Agnelli. The book also features essays by critic Paul Goldberger, who first wrote about Candela in 1979, and architect Peter Pennoyer, who has put his own imprint on the Upper East Side skyline." — ELLE DECOR

"An in-depth look at the architect who gave old-money New York a Jazz Age infusion, and Americans a skyline for their dreams." — AIRMAIL.COM

“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.” — A WEEKLY DOSE OF ARCHITECTURE BOOKS SUBSTACK

"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