The John Rylands Library?
http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/planningsupportoffice/images/warehouse3.jpg
Something with a harder edge?
http://www.curatedmag.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lecorbusier-barbican-front.jpg
Or what?
http://www.aaa.si.edu/images/portfair/0030.jpg
The Ace Cafe... Bar Italia...
Last edited by Beatnik (2009-09-30 08:16:39)
The Barcelona Pavilion, or the Lorelei in Bateman Street Soho.
GG
For Ivy, I think I prefer formal, classy, but not overwhelming in its ornateness or size. Something that signals taste and style without also positively stating "and I am also very rich"...which I think would necessitate more English/Saville Row rather than American tailoring. It certainly seems to do so today. In other words: comfortable without being extraordinarily rich.
Like one of the brick colonials or smaller (2,500<x<5,000 sq ft) tudors one finds in 1910s-1930s suburbs like New Rochelle, N.Y., West Hartford, Conn., or Newton, Mass.
In pictures this: http://www.raveis.com/Hartford_pix/G540516_101_12.jpg
But NOT this: http://raveis.com/photos/Prop171900.jpg
Last edited by Coolidge (2009-09-30 17:59:13)