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February's #nationalconservationlands, BLM Winter Bucket List, Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in Arizona for Its Dark Sky Park Status
The Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument is a vast remote landscape where the only nighttime light comes from the stars. The International Dark Sky Association (IDA) recognized the unspoiled quality of its pristine and breathtaking night skies with an official IDA designation as “Parashant International Night Sky Province,” joining an elite group of other international Night Sky Places around the globe.
Twenty-two organizations throughout the southwestern United States supported the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument’s nomination for IDA’s “Dark Sky Park” status, including the scientific community. Its pristine “Gold Tier” night sky view creates prime research and discovery opportunities.
The scenery continues to impress during the day at this rugged corner of northern Arizona, with views stretching from the lower portion of the Grand Canyon to the pine clad peaks of Mount Trumbull and Mount Logan Wilderness Areas. Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument is jointly managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service.
Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.
Los antófilos, conocidos comúnmente como abejas, son un clado de insectos himenópteros, sin ubicación en categoría taxonómica, dentro de la superfamilia Apoidea. Se trata de un linaje monofilético con más de 20.000 especies conocidas
Example of building exterior stone aggregate façade (cladding) system with minor damage revealing exposed grey asbestos-cement paneling underneath.
From Stirling's brick-clad "red trilogy" of university buildings in the early 60s, which were instrumental in authorizing the cockeyed functionalist-formalism that undergirded a great deal of international Brutalism. The Smithson-Banham version of that term, as has been much discussed in recent years, was really a matter of self-announcing ascetic utilitarianism: just steel and pipes here, folks - and look how brutally honest we're being about it! Its stealth aesthetics were neoclassical, as Philip Johnson recognized, but they looked like someone had taken the classicism out of Mies.
Stirling's forms also appear to be derived from a functionalist reading, of program rather than construction: just classrooms and lecture halls here, folks. In so doing, he reaches back to a 1920s Modernist sense of form-making, where different programs get different forms. He could have found this in the Bauhaus, or in the engineer-and-accountant "found aesthetic" of industrial complexes, where functionally-driven forms are jammed together based on production sequences. If admiring the look and feel of a factory site - or, likely, a Melnikov workers' club - isn't quite the same as designing according to purely functionalist principles, whatever: the compositions thrilled a whole range of architects looking for new ways of making form under the functionalist umbrella.
A great many Brutalist works to come owe a lot to the finessed form-following seen here. I'm thinking of John Johansen, et al. - but by extension also later architects (especially OMA and their children) who carried forth the massing strategy while punting the material palette. In Stirling's case, what makes it work is pure compositional instinct: while a classical symmetry haunts the composition here, you can't get far enough back, on axis, to see it, and you register instead a dynamically counterpoised game of verticals, horizontals, things flying apart while being held together. That things actually did fly apart, in the form of tiles slipping off the surface of the building, is a whole 'nother story...
Chimboya is a mountain in the La Raya mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,489 metres high.
The mountain range La Raya is a series of mountains that is located in the Andes of Peru and limits between the regions of Cusco and Puno.
The Abra or Paso de la Raya is at an altitude of 4335 meters above sea level, the highest point of the journey to Cusco and Puno. From this majestic place you can see part of the snowy Chimboya that is part of the Andes mountain range.
Peruvian Altiplano, Andino high plains
Lit with a Sb-800 on 1/64, triggered with Cactus V6.
Taken the night before a Safari in Chobe, Botswana.
St. Regis New York
2 East 55th Street
New York, NY
Fifth Avenue facade. Most windows are original and were kalamein - meaning they were clad in sheet metal, historically intended as a defense against fire.
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The St Regis Hotel is an 18-story Beaux-Arts landmark which cost five and a half million dollars upon its opening in 1904 (room for room it was the most lavish outlay for any New York Hotel at that time). The architects were Trowbridge & Livingston, with interiors by Arnold Constable. Construction began in 1901 and the hotel opened on September 4, 1904. The price of a room was $5.00 per day. The press at that time described the St. Regis as “the most richly furnished and opulent hotel in the world.”
Trowbridge & Livingston also designed the Astor owned Knickerbocker Hotel at 42nd and Broadway which now is an office building and in 1935 the Art Deco Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon.
Built by Col. John Jacob Astor IV of ill-fated Titanic fame, the St. Regis featured Louis XVI furniture from France, had 47 Steinway pianos, Waterford crystal chandeliers, soaring ceilings, a telephone in every room, marble baths and U.S. mail chutes on each floor. Before his untimely demise aboard the Titanic, Astor fulfilled his vision of creating a hotel where "gentlemen and their families could feel as comfortable as they would as guests in a private home".
As described by daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com the limestone hotel was festooned with garlands, balconies, French windows and decorative wrought iron railings. An elegant mansard roof, monumental console brackets, and an snaking copper cresting added to the Parisian air of the design of a building intended to hold court over “the Queen of Avenues.”
At the time Astor was one of the wealthiest men in America, and owned half of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel which then was located twenty blocks south on Fifth Avenue. Astor had bought the plat of land at 55th and Fifth Avenue to be the site for his new mansion but thought better to build a hotel. Astor's great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor, also dabbled in hotels having built the Astor House in Lower Manhattan in 1836.
According to Wikipedia Astor named the new hotel, at the suggestion of his niece, after Upper St. Regis Lake in the Adirondacks. The lake had been named for a French monk, John Francis Regis, known for his hospitality to travelers, so the name seemed appropriate.
In 1910, Astor's wife Ava was granted a divorce. John Jacob met his tragic death on the RMS Titanic in 1912 while returning from his honeymoon with his new bride, Madeleine Talmadge Force. Astor's son Vincent Astor inherited the St. Regis and later sold it to North Carolina tobacco millionaire Benjamin Newton Duke but kept a $5 million mortgage on it.
In 1927, under Duke management a new wing designed by Sloan & Robertson extended the hotel down 55th Street with a compatible though less detailed limestone facade. The hotel now had 540 rooms and added a rooftop ballroom - The St. Regis Roof and the Salle Cathay (the main dining room), with its Chinese décor and illuminated mosaic panels. The Iridium Room Replaced the Salle Cathay and featured ice-skating. The Iridium decor was conceived by Anne Tiffany. The room was named for the costliest of precious metals, iridium. The Iridium later was converted to the King Cole Grille.
In the 30’s Joseph Urban designed the Seaglades nightclub, where Vincent Lopez's orchesta played. An ad for The Seaglades in 1930 stated: "THE SEAGLADES . . . Vincent Lopez not playing Nola any longer in the most beautiful surroundings in New York. The famed Joseph Urban surpassed himself here. The clientele is typically Park Avenue, with a smatter ing of those who really like Vincent Lopez and those who come to see why it is they don't really like him. Dress is obligatory. Plaza 4500. 224. Hotel St. Regis, 5th Avenue at 55th Street."
In 1935 Vincent Astor took back the St. Regis through a mortgage default (he maintained control of the hotel until his death in 1959). He appointed his brother-in-law Prince Sergbe Obolensky to the hotel's executive board (Later Obolensky worked for Hilton Hotels Corporation as Vice President of International Development). He contracted with Anne Tiffany to redecorate the hotel and hired Joseph Castaybert (Culinary Man of Year in 1956) as the hotel's executive chef. The Seaglades nightclub turned into the Maisonette Russe; it became one of the most popular supper-nightclubs in New York. The Roof was turned into the Viennese Roof. At one time, the Seaglades Nightclub in the St. Regis Hotel had a "Minuette" organ, built by the Estey Organ Company. The Maisonette had Peter Duchin and his orchestra playing through much of the 1960's.
A 1936 color print of La Maisonette Russe at the Hotel St. Regis in New York City had this to say:
"Last year Vincent Astor acquired the St. Regis Hotel at Fifth and fifty-fifth, by mortgage forecloser. And last fall the St. Regis opened its Maisonette Russe, which was the idea of Mr. Astor's friend and realty associate, Prince Serge Obolensky. A small and imperially draped retreat in the White Russian manner, it was blessd and vetted with holy water on opening night by Reverend Casily Kurdiumoff of the Russian Orthodox Church ... Since then it has done a good business with people who enjoy a refined evening. The cover charge is $2 and for $3 the customer can have a dinner..."
Tipsontables.com reports:
"Since the middle '30s the St. Regis' most popular dining-and-dancing room has been one flight down from the lobby and has retained at least part of its name through several changes. For four years it was the veddy smart Maisonette Russe, with Prince Serge Obolensky and the cream of society lending their august presence to the gay scene. In 1939 it became the Hawaiian Maisonette for a shorter period than I should set down here. From then on it has been known as just the Maisonette."
Fernand Petiot a St. Regis Hotel bartender claims to have "invented" the Bloody Mary with his cocktail known as a Red Snapper which besides the vodka and tomato juice included salt, cayene pepper, lemon juice, and Tabasco sauce. Petiot worked at the St. Regis from 1934 until his retirement in 1966.
From a 1937 St Regis ad:
"When you come to New York for a week, a week-end or for the season...you will feel at home at the St. Regis. The rooms are so different from rooms in other hotels. For when Anne Tiffany was called in to decorate them she was asked to forget that the St. Regis is a hotel. Thus she planned room after room, as if each had been separately commissioned by different clients...and the result is rmarkable pleasing even to the casual visitor. Single rooms from $6 to $8 - James O. Stack, General Manager Hotel St. Regis"
When Vincent Astor died in 1959, Cesar Balsa, a Spanish-born Mexican hotel magnate took over ownership of the St. Regis. The former bell hop from Barcelona, Spain reportedly leased the St. Regis Hotel for two hundred years. At the time Balsa owned nine hotels in Mexico including the El President Hotels in Mexico City and Acapulco.
In August 1961 this is the script used in an ad for Balsa Hotels: "Distinction ... In Mexico City and in Acapulco, as at the famed St. Regis of New York's Fifth Avenue, an atmosphere of elegance and sophistication prevails and the traditional hospitality Mexico is yours to enjoy at BALSA HOTELS."
According to stregisnewyork.com The St. Regis underwent three more owners until 1966, when Sheraton Corporation of America purchased the hotel. The Sheraton Corporation closed the St. Regis-Sheraton in June 1988 - considering for awhile to convert the property to offices or condominiums. Five months following the closure New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission declared the St. Regis-Sheraton an official city landmark, protecting the building's exterior.
The Equitable Life Assurance Society has been a partner of Sheraton at the St. Regis since 1980 and it was unclear during the summer of 1988 which partner would prevail in the disposition of the hotel. HVS reported the 380-room St. Regis was sold in November 1988 by Equitable to the Sheraton Corporation for $130,000,000 ($342,105 per room). In that same year Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. acquired the Sheraton, Four Points by Sheraton, and The Luxury Collection brands from ITT Sheraton Corporation.
In November 1988 Sheraton announced plans to rebuild and restore the St. Regis as a transient hotel. The hotel's room count would shrink to 380 from 437, a result of enlargening rooms. According to Robert W. Quinn, Sheraton's vice president of advertising all major building systems, such as plumbing and electric, are to be replaced. The facade is to be cleaned and restored. Architects for the project are Brennan Beer Gorman Monk. The work may take up to a year and a half to finish and estimated to cost $50 million, the final tally was closer to $100 million.
Upon re-opening in 1991 the 87-year old hotel is expected to have a room rate of $450 according to Peter Tischmann, the vice president, managing director of the St. Regis. Tischman was quoted in the NY Times "Our rates are our rates, the St. Regis would never offer corporate discounts" and "No conventions". The hotel hired English butler Ivor Spencer, who runs a school for butlers in London, to train the maitres d'etage butlers who are assigned to each floor. At the grand opening Astor’s granddaughter, Jacqueline Astor Drexel, shared the ribbon-cutting with Mayor Dinkins.
There is a gourmet French restaurant, Lespinasse; the King Cole Bar and Lounge (Overseen by Gaspard Caloz, a young Swiss chef); and a tea lounge. There is a health club and, in addition to a the St. Regis Boutique, Bijan, Godiva, and Christian Dior set up shop in the building.
In early 1992, several of Tischmann's subordinates in the Human Resources Department of the St. Regis complained that Tischmann had sexually harassed them. After investigation, Sheraton officials determined that Tischmann had violated the company's sexual harassment policies. In March 1992, Sheraton terminated his employment. Tishchmann later worked for Leona Helmsley at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel in New York. Tischmann has also authored a book "The Challenges of Change" based on his hotel experience.
In 1999 Starwood launched its main luxury brand - St. Regis. It is named after the St. Regis Hotel in New York. The St. Regis was a Sheraton from 1966 on, and following a restoration from 1985-1991 was part of the ITT Sheraton Luxury division.
In 2003 Lespinasse, the St. Regis award—winning restaurant closed permanently. The decision was an economic one, according to French chef Christian Delouvrier. The restaurant debuted in 1991 under the direction of Singapore-born chef Gray Kunz.
In 2006 there are were four registered time share projects in Manhattan -- the Manhattan Club, the Phillips Club, the Hilton and the St. Regis.
The St. Regis offered 24 full-ownership condos — studios and one- and two-bedrooms — starting at $1.6 million and not including an annual maintenance fee of $34,800. Also, the St. Regis offered "fractional" ownership condos, where buyers are guaranteed residency for 28 days, though not 28 days in a row and not guaranteed the same room. There are 22 of these "fractional" units, which will cost $300,000 to $600,000, for studios and one- and two-bedrooms suites. Annual fees are $16,000.
As of 2011 a fractional ownership condo at the St. Regis with 445 sq ft with one week guaranteed and 21 flexible days is offered at $225,000. The annual maintenance fee is $10,300.
Adour Alain Ducasse is the name of the new restaurant (formerly the Lespinasse), which opened at the beginning of 2008 in the St. Regis Hotel. The first Ducasse restaurant, Alain Ducasse at the Essex House, opened in 2000, (patrons were offered a choice of pens with which to sign their check) and is closed. Adour is the name of a river near Ducasse's hometown in France.
In 1998 Richard J. Cotter was appointed Managing Director of the St. Regis Hotel in New York City, announced by Fred Kleisner, President COO-The Americas of the Hotel Group of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. He was Group Managing Director, North America, for The New York Palace and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. Cotter succeeded Horatio (Rick) Segal who left the company after 22 years with Sheraton.
In April 2001, Herbert Pliessnig, former General Manager of the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City was named General Manager of The St. Regis, New York He succeeded Richard Cotter, who has been appointed Vice President of Operations, Starwood Hotels of New York.
Scott Geraghty was named General Manager of The St. Regis Hotel in 2004. He came from the Essex House, where he worked as Hotel Manager for four years.
Paul Nash was named St. Regis General Manager in March 2009. Previously he was General Manager of The St. Regis Houston.
Compiled by Dick Johnson
November 2010
richardlloydjohnson@hotmail.com
ORNL's Brian Friske holds an iridium alloy clad vent set — virtually indestructible metal cups — encapsulate Pu-238 within the radioisotope thermoelectric generator . Iridium, among the platinum-group metals on the periodic table, is extremely durable and can withstand temperatures with a melting point of more than 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Since the 1970s, Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have custom designed the alloy cladding for space travel to ensure the fuel within would remain contained even during anomalous events. Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Newly clad refugees
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows refugees, possibly Armenians.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.26178
Call Number: LC-B2- 4489-7
The 2015 HUNKY JESUS CONTEST with THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE !
A MUSCLE-BOUND, diaper clad, HUNKY JESUS carrying his toy Easter bunnies, two baby bottles filled with milk, and sucking on a pacifier waddled up on stage much to the delight of Sister ROMA and the crowd. Everyone went in to a wild uproar when he squirted his bottle of milk all over his golden tan, rippled muscled beautiful body a la Flashdance. Milk really do a body good...BABY JESUS won the title of 2015 HUNKY JESUS CONTEST!
The sexy lanky ROLLER DISCO JESUS stunned the crowed with his roller skating antics on stage, ok it was his tight muscled body in a white disco jumpsuit which was ripped open in just the right places !
The EXORCIST JESUS also got the audience howling with his Dr. Frankenfurter black lace , neglige outfit and 6-inch black platform boots.
Afterwards, HUNKY, MUSCLE-BOUND BABY JESUS was pulled aside by tons of people for a photo-op !
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The New York Palace Hotel (formerly The Helmsley Palace)
455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street
New York, NY 10022
The Palace's 55-story tower looms over St Patrick's Cathedral.
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The Villard Houses were brownstone residences built by Henry Villard in 1884. Villard was a railway promoter and financier, who took over the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881. The architect was McKim, Mead & White. The firm also designed the Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan. The six residence building was clad in quarried brownstone and wrapped around a u-shaped courtyard representative of a 15th century Italian palazzo. Four homes opened onto the courtyard while two had entrances on 51st Street.
Villard moved into the corner residence at 451 Madison, at the corner of 50th Street for just a short while before declaring bankruptcy. Much of the interior decoration is still visible today in the restaurant Gilt (formerly Le Cirque 2000).
In the 1940’s the Villard House was known as Women's Military Services Club. It served women in the military that could stay there for .50 cents a night. By the late 60’s the Archdiocese of New York owned the complex.
In the early 70’s Harry Helmsley found the perfect location in which to build his dream hotel. The Villard House was located on New York's Madison Avenue, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Helmsley negotiated a 99 year lease on the site from the the Archdiocese of New York and proposed gutting the interiors of the Villard and putting a 51-story hotel on top of it. The preservationists prevailed and Helmsley’s plan was changed to save most of the interiors of the Villard houses, though the buildings' rear facades were demolished and incorporated in to the new 51-story hotel. long-term ground lease, which runs for decades. The Archdiocese of New York receives $10 million annually in ground rent.
Helmsley commissioned architects Emery Roth & Sons and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to design the modern structure and integrate the 1884 houses. The tower’s façade is a dark bronze reflective glass that was to blend with the Villard Houses. Started in 1977, the 805-room hotel project was completed in 1980.
Leona Helmsley spent a great deal of time and energy managing the decorating and staffing of the hotel. Leona took seriously her role as President of Helmsley Hotels and was determined to give her guests unprecedented service.
On September 15, 1980, the opulent Helmsley Palace Hotel opened. At the time The Helmsley Palace had the highest hotel rates in the city. An early print advertisement featuring Leona had the by-line: “It’s the only palace in the world where the Queen stands guard”
The hotel has four Triplex Suites. Situated at the top of the tower and occupying the four corners, each 2-bedroom suite is spread over three floors and include a private roof terrace.
In 1982, the limited partners in the Helmsley Palace Hotel partnership forced an arbitration proceeding after Harry Helmsley, in his role as general partner demanded more money from the limited partners for cost overruns in building the hotel. The limited partners said the Helmsley’s had mismanaged the business and had hurt the partnership through several self-dealing transactions. The arbitrators ruled in favor of the limited partners and forced the Helmsley’s to pay the cost overruns and an additional $3.5 million to the partnership.
Leona Helmsley, was convicted of income tax fraud in August 1989 - (“We don’t pay taxes … only the little people do”). Leona was convicted of 33 felony counts of trying to defraud the government and IRS, including mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns (essentially running millions of dollars of personal expenses through the Helmsley Palace and Park Lane books)
Harry Helmsley was indicted on similar charges in 1988, but was found too ill to stand trial. He died in 1997.
Following appeals Leona Helmsley was imprisoned from 1992-1993.
The limited partners in the Palace partnership were rightfully concerned during the Helmsley’s legal mess that the hotel was in desperate need for another general partner. The limited partners contended Helmsley Enterprises breached its fiduciary duties in managing and operating the partnership. They sought through the courts to remove the Helmsleys as general partner, and to appoint a receiver until a new general partner and manager can be found or the hotel be sold. They also sought restoration of any money the Helmsleys may have diverted to their affiliates through self-dealing.
Helmsley operated the Helmsley Palace hotel until 1992. She was known to fire managers from her jail cell.
Interstate Hotels was appointed by the court as the hotel’s receiver. The hotel changed its name to The New York Palace Hotel. The receiver received 6 qualified bids for the hotel.
In November 1993 The Royal Family of Brunei agreed to buy the New York Palace for $202 million (the highest offer). The agreement to buy the Palace is with Amedeo Hotels Limited Partnership, an investment company in Brunei. The Sultan of Brunei, through its development company, Amedeo Limited, contracted with Harman Jablin Architects for the complete renovation of the hotel and Villard Houses.
The hotel is comprised of three structures: the899-room 55-story hotel tower, the 5-story Villard House, and the 2-story Maloney & Porcelli restaurant.
The wealth of the royal family of Brunei, a tiny oil-rich sultanate on the island of Borneo, is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, whose estimated worth of $33 billion makes him one of the world's richest men. He and his family also own the 263-room Beverly Hills Hotel in California, bought for $187 million in 1987, and the Dorchester Hotel in London, bought for about $85 million in 1985.
The Royal Family’s new wealth comes from a constant flow of royalties into their private bank accounts from Shell Oil, who they joint ventured with to extract Brunei’s only natural resource.
The Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah younger brother is Prince Jefri Bolkiah who was the finance minister of Brunei from 1986 to 1998 and thus the chairman of The Brunei Investment Agency (BIA) responsible for overseas investments. He was known for his extravagant lifestyle, which included a private Boeing 747 and 2,000 automobiles. Hotels he controlled included The New York Palace Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles and Plaza Athénée in Paris.
Following an audit in 1987 The Brunei government charged Prince Jefri with embezzling $14.8 billion and he was removed as chairman of BEI.
In July 2008 BEI signed management contracts with the Dorchester Group to operate the New York Plaza and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.
Prince Jefri’s two main legal and financial advisors, the British husband and wife lawyers Thomas Derbyshire and Faith Zaman were dispatched by the Prince to the New York Palace in 2004 to protect his interests. The two were involved in many aspects of Prince Jefri’s business affairs and they held powers of attorney to act of his behalf.
So In November 2005, Zaman claims Jefri gave them a 17-year lease on a 2,800-square-foot apartment on the third floor of the hotel, which rented as a suite for $20,000 a night. The prince gave the apartment to them rent-free for the first five years After that, the charge would be $500 a month, with an option to renew for 51 years. According the Vanity Fair this was done so the sultan if ever was successful in taking over the hotel, he would have to deal with them for the rest of his life.
In February 2006, John Segreti, the managing director of the Palace, dropped dead at 52 of a pulmonary embolism. Segreti formerly was the chief operating officer at Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, in Hong Kon).
In March 2006 Faith Zaman was appointed Managing Director of the Palace. Her annual salary included 5 percent of the hotel’s gross operating profit, a car allowance of $100,000 per year, and free use of the company credit card for personal expenses. Also the prince gave her control of a second lease at a low price for the Maloney & Porcelli steak house on the hotel’s ground floor, on East 50th Street.
Meanwhile Derbyshire was working hard on finding a way for Jefri to cash in on two of his biggest assets the New York Palace and Hotel Bel-Air. A prospective buyer, Ty Warner (owner of the Four Seasons New York), was found who had agreed to acquiring the two hotels for $800 million. The sell certainly would have breached the government of Brunei’s freeze of Prince Jefri’s assets and further, what bank in the world could be used to deposit the proceeds and hide it from the government of Brunei.
The sell never occurred. Prince Jefri filed a suit against Derbyshire and Zaman seeking to recover $7 million in questionable expenses, Derbyshire and Zaman countersued for $13 million in contractual wages never received. In December 2010 the New York City jury awarded Derbyshire and Zaman $21 million.
Prince Jefri, a father of 17 with four wives, has swapped a decadent lifestyle for a fugitive existence. He is reported to have been allowed back in Brunei.
In 1997, with a new name--Le Cirque 2000--the restaurant moved from the Mayfair to the New York Palace Hotel and its landmark, the Villard Houses. Designer Adam Tihany gave Le Cirque its dazzling new look, and, as the opening approached, Siro Maccioni told New York magazine, "They're either going to give us a medal or exile us to Kilimanjaro."
In 2006 Siro Maccioni moved Le Cirque from the Palace Hotel to the Bloomberg building on East 58th Street.
John Segretti, the hotel’s managing director, decided The Palace Hotel should operate its own restaurant in the Villard space. In December 2005 it opened the 52-seat restaurant GILT with the interior design done by Patrick Jouin. The executive chef was Paul Liebrandt. The NY Times food critic panned Gilt two months after opening describing some entrees as “no larger than a hockey puck”. Shortly after Liebrandt was fired. In 2009 GILT was awarded Twp Michelin Stars under the direction of Executive Chef Justin Bogle.
In July 2011 Northwood Investors acquired the New York Plaza for approximately $400 million. The price is low by NYC standards – held down due to the $10 million dollar a year ground lease. The seller Brunei Investment Agency also owns the Dorchester Collection of luxury hotels. The New York Palace is no longer affiliated with the Dorchester Collection.
Northwood Investors is a privately-held real estate investment advisor that was founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral, the former President and CEO of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. It also owns the Alden Houston Hotel and The Radisson Hotel Boston.
Northwood has appointed David Chase to general manager of The New York Palace. Most recently he was the pre-opening general manager of Trump SoHo New York.
Mademoiselle Eden is wearing jeans from Earth Angel Eden Blair, top is from an OOAK DB fashion, cardigan is Dagamoart, handbag is Little Day Ensemble Véronique Perrin. Earring are JamieShow.
Notice the bulls eye glass in the modern windows, . The wall is particuarly nice, inspired by Barbara Hepworth, possibly.
Shadow on the cladding of the Aldi supermarket, Altrincham Retail Park, Manchester. Best seen in the Original size to see the texture in the cladding.
Everyone in their PJs (because every time I change their clothes I take a mandatory group photo....)
I confess that these trees are clad in man-made snow from all the Milky Way snow machines (apparently the best skiing surface is a mix of real and snow-machine snow...), but it certainly made them beautiful.
The lovely thing about skiing around Sauze d'Oulx is that much of the skiing is below the tree line - so it's really pretty.