Word: gardened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, it seemed to Impresario Gino Land! that it would be a shame to waste all those horses, women and gladiators; so he packed them all up and sent them to the U.S. for a multicity tour. Last week Landi's Festa Italiana opened at Madison Square Garden, and much to everybody's surprise, the extravaganza turned out to be a kind of 1st century Hellzapoppin...
...like no other building in New York. Huge, cantilevered stories jut outward rather than recede, as in most commercial buildings. The ground floor is cut off from the street by a sunken sculpture garden, already dubbed "the Moat," spanned by a partially canopied bridge. As last week's opening-night throng of 4,000 quickly discovered, such architectural novelty has certain distinct advantages. Arriving in the pelting rain, the guests had no sooner ducked under the stone canopy than they discovered that the bridge ahead of them (see opposite) was bone dry, sheltered by the towering, projecting museum wings...
...within five stories a total floor space seven times as great as the site, he proceeded much like a Sardinian baker, who, with every piece of dough he subtracts, adds it back some place else in the loaf. Thus to compensate for space lost by the indoor-outdoor sculpture garden and the host of first-floor functional requirements, from coat racks and publications desk to unloading platforms, Breuer designed cantilevered upper floors to produce progressively larger galleries culminating in a lofty, sky-lit top gallery...
...book, there is no place for them to go. While Radcliffe once housed its books midway between the Quad and the Square (and conveniently across the street from the Graduate Center where many Cliffies eat lunch), now there is nothing but an intellectual wasteland stretching the long mile up Garden Street...
...with his demands, 250 weavers were required, while additional shops turned out furniture, sculpture, mosaics, even locks and bolts. Presiding over all was Charles Le Brun, who gave the age its style. As first painter to the King, Le Brun decorated most of Louis' palaces, planned Versailles' garden statues and, above all, saw through to completion some of the most sumptuous tapestries ever created by Gobelins...