Creem on Show
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, June 13, 2011 at 6/13/2011 05:58:00 PM.
Wall of Fabulous
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 2/22/2011 05:16:00 PM.
Labels: Creem Magazine, FASHION, Magazines and books, photography
Shakespeare and Company, Paris
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 2/21/2011 05:21:00 PM.
Ex Libris
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 2/17/2011 10:36:00 PM.
Labels: libraries, Magazines and books, photography
Places You Go
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, January 14, 2011 at 1/14/2011 06:28:00 AM.
Labels: Magazines and books, New York, photography
Labels: Magazines and books, Maps, New York
Community Bookstore, Brooklyn
1 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 1/13/2011 09:51:00 AM.
The Community Bookstore on Court Street, Brooklyn is worth a detour, that is if you can find your way inside. A labyrinth of messy proportions awaits the book enthousiast, complete with obscure reference shelves, tons of hoarded unorganized books in cartons amidst an obscure collection of plastic dolls, and an entrance area that looks more like the cavernous remains of an obsessive-compulsive hoarder à la Collyer Brothers. Enjoy!
The entrance is located right behind this wall of stuff. The owner as well.
Labels: BROOKLYN, Interiors, Magazines and books, New York, photography, shopping
read between the lions
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Monday, January 10, 2011 at 1/10/2011 05:06:00 AM.
A Venetian Gothic Giant
0 Comments Published by Cedric Benetti on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 12/31/2010 01:23:00 AM.
The red sandstone, brick and-terra-cotta fortress that graces the campus of the University of Pennsylvania was built by Frank Furness to be the primary library of the University, and to house its archeological collection. The cornerstone was laid in October 1888, construction was completed in late 1890, and the building was dedicated in February 1891.
Throughout the building are windows inscribed with quotations from Shakespeare, chosen by Horace Howard Furness, Frank's brother, a University lecturer and a preeminent American Shakespearean scholar of the 19th century.
Within a generation, Frank Furness's exuberant masterwork was considered an embarrassment. The University Museum moved to its own building in 1899. In 1915 a wing was built at the south end of the stacks, making their designed expansion impossible. Robert Rodes McGoodwin drew up plans to cloak the entire building in sedate Collegiate Gothic brick and stone.
In 1957 Frank Lloyd Wright was invited to tour the Victorian mamoth, then threatened with demolition. The architect proclaimed: "It is the work of an artist."
The building served as main library of the university until 1962. Today it houses collections related to architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, history of art, and studio arts.
In a 2009 appreciation in The Wall Street Journal, architectural historian Michael J. Lewis called it "a cheeky act of architectural impertinence" and "the last of its kind":
"Today, the University of Pennsylvania building, now known as the Fisher Fine Arts Library, is widely acknowledged as one of the great creations of 19th-century American culture, and the principal work of its architect, Frank Furness (1839-1912)."
"Today, the University of Pennsylvania building, now known as the Fisher Fine Arts Library, is widely acknowledged as one of the great creations of 19th-century American culture, and the principal work of its architect, Frank Furness (1839-1912)."
Labels: American Architectural History, Architecture Instant Love, Architecture shot, Art, Interiors, Magazines and books, Philadelphia, photography
