{Not sure why, but I feel like I had shared the Andaz 5th Avenue by Tony Chi - a designer I’ve

{Not sure why, but I feel like I had shared the Andaz 5th Avenue by Tony Chi - a designer I’ve been meaning to share more of (but I feel like the website needs some updating). Anyway, the interiors are all quite handsome, with a classic touch. I love how sparse the suite is, but I find the design of the bathroom, with its mismatched marbles and etched mirror, a little jarring.} “The interior of Andaz 5th Avenue is inspired by New York City. Within the limestone and brick façade of the historic 1916 Rogers Peet Building – once a men’s retail store –Tony Chi has created spaces inspired by the high-ceilings and solidity of the city’s pre-war apartments and the moments that characterize the city in the minds of New Yorkers.  The ground and second floors are open spaces; a façade of floor-to-ceiling glass framed in limestone echoes the library across the street. The spaces might remind you of the city on a rainy day or the moment right before dawn breaks when the streets are silent, and New York is all yours.  Like many of New York’s most passionate art-collecting residents, we have curated our spaces with work that evokes the dynamic energy of our locale: 14-foot brilliant vermilion acrylic murals of figures communicating with each other by Carlos Capelánglow like fire through the windows on 41st Street. A white, eight-foot-high white marble and resin Nick Hornby sculpture first appears to be a modernist sculpture, but its real influences from the neighborhood quickly unfold as you “read” it: Look at the sculpture this way, it’s a bit of the bronze Gertrude Stein statue from Bryant Park; that way, it’s a piece of the urns that flank the New York Public Library; keep looking – it’s the Broken Obelisk sculpture by Barnett Newman in the Museum of Modern Art.”  -- source link

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