Word: foyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the foyer, the walls are a virtual tapestry of contemporary art; the furniture, mostly antique except for braces of modern Mies and Eames chairs, cowers in the center of the rooms to make place for paintings. Even Scull's eldest son, Jonathan, 15, covers the walls of his room with his own collection of junior-sized examples of Pop that he buys by installments with his allowance. The apartment is so cluttered with art derived from familiar objects that frequently guests pick up an ordinary cigarette box and ask who the artist...
...discovers that it includes a lavish dinner for two and many bottles of champagne. Hooked, he sticks around and pays and pays as the girl, already tanked up, orders more champagne, a purseful of cigarettes and a corsage. When he takes her home, she passes out in the foyer. He lugs his hefty pickup up and down stairs and in and out of an antique glass-walled elevator in a frantic attempt to find her apartment so he can unload her. When he finally gets rid of her and back on the street, he is missing a shoe, goes hippety...
...inside the tents. Others dozed on cots or chatted idly with their colleagues, trying to beat the summer heat with bottles of cold beer, which they bring to tento mura by the case. When word was flashed by walkie-talkie radio from the agent inside the P.M.'s foyer, the press corps rushed out to extract the news from Ikeda's latest visitor...
...inner wall run three balconies that make the space, which is 190 ft. by 25 ft., seem even longer than it is. Abramovitz from the beginning sensed the need for a sculpture that would "float in space and relate in a contemporary manner to the interior of the foyer, just as the magnificent crystal chandeliers of a former day took command of their space." He selected one of the best space-commanders around: Sculptor Richard Lippold...
...Room for Standees. The crowds that made their way past the surrounding rubble to last week's concerts entered a nine-story hall designed by Architect Max Abramovitz, its glass sides framed by 42 columns faced with travertine, its main foyer rising almost 50 ft. and dominated by a five-ton "space sculpture," still unfinished, by Richard Lippold. With 2,646 seats (with holes on the underside to absorb sound), Philharmonic Hall is 114 seats smaller than Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, and it provides no room for standees. But the opening gave New York two major concert halls...