A century ago, the popularity of early Washington landmarks like Stoneleigh Court and the controversial Cairo (which, at a soaring twelve stories, shocked District officials into enacting the city's height limit) made it clear that apartment living was here to stay. By the 1920s, Beaux Art and Art Deco palaces offered residents all the luxuries of a first-class hotel: barbershops, ballrooms, rooftop terraces, and indoor pools. Soon other innovations in apartment living—the garden complex, the cooperative, and the mixed-use building—put Washington at the forefront of urban planning. Today t... [Read More]
A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times–bestselling author of “Our Crowd”. When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the late 1800s, it was derisively dubbed “the Dakota” for being as far from the center of the downtown action as its namesake territory on the nation’s western frontier. Despite its remote location, the quirky German Renaissance–style castle, with its intricate façade, peculiar interior design, and gargoyle guardia... [Read More]
This System includes 1 outdoor color camera with 3 call buttons,7 inch color LCD screen 3 PCS,Support IR night vision. When someone press the call button on outdoor unit, it will active the indoor monitor, monitor will turn on, ring and show the video outside. So you can see who is outside, a postman? a neighbor? a salesman? or a burglar? Then you can press the response button on monitor to talk with the people outside, unlock the lock and press the response button again to end the conversion. Feature: The TFT 7 inch digital color LCD screen for monitoring. High-resolution night vision, monito... [Read More]
From the author of House of Outrageous FortuneFor seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, until now. The last great building to go up along New York’s Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has been home to an... [Read More]
Feature: A good sidekick for school, hiking, travel. Kids packpack comes with different designed pictures. We continuously provides the customized, colorful and fashionable kids backpacks with reliable and premium quality. Specification: Material: waterproof Polyester Oxford Suit for: 2-15 years old children Usage: Lunch,schoo,travel,hiking,sport for girls,boys,baby,kindergarten Note: 1,Please allow little color difference due to different camera or different screen display. 2,There is maybe 0.5-2 inch diffenence due to different measurement. Size is for reference... [Read More]
Marble Grey/Marmi Marble is a light grey veined marble colored self-adhesive film. Apply it to tables, cabinets, walls and more to transform that old surface into a beautiful grey marble surface. Makeover, renovate, customize, whatever you want to call it, D-C-Fix self adhesive vinyl is your perfect solution when it comes to creating something new out of something old. Damaged desks or table tops can look as good as new, cupboard doors can be modernized, plain flat surfaced furniture can achieve a custom made, high end look. D-C-Fix self-adhesive films are a collection of affordable home déco... [Read More]
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017!Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, intellectually entertaining illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, and the guts of New York City, based on Julia Wertz's popular illustrated columns in The New Yorker and Harper's.In Tenements, Towers & Trash, Julia Wertz takes us behind the New York that you think you know. Not the tourist's New York-the Statue of Liberty makes a brief appearance and the Empire State Building not at all-but the guts, the underbelly, of this city that never sleeps. Wit... [Read More]
DC 4-Film Collection (Blu-ray/Wonder Woman/Suicide Squad: Ext Cut/Batman v Superman: DOJ UE/Man of Steel) (BD]]>
David King Gleason provides a grand tour of Virginia’s distinctive plantation homes. As the architectural historian Calder Loth states in his prefatory note, “Gleason’s elegant photographs provide a seductive image of life in ‘Old Virginia.’ He presents one inviting house after another, complete with handsome interiors, and spacious grounds dotted with boxwoods and venerable trees.”Unlike those in the Deep South, most of Virginia’s plantation homes were built before the antebellum period and mainly reflect colonial, English Georgian, and Jeffersonian styles of architecture. Gleas... [Read More]
Feature: A good sidekick for school, hiking, travel. Kids packpack comes with different designed pictures. We continuously provides the customized, colorful and fashionable kids backpacks with reliable and premium quality. Specification: Material: waterproof Polyester Oxford Suit for: 2-15 years old children Usage: Lunch,schoo,travel,hiking,sport for girls,boys,baby,kindergarten Note: 1,Please allow little color difference due to different camera or different screen display. 2,There is maybe 0.5-2 inch diffenence due to different measurement. Size is for reference... [Read More]
Whitemarsh Hall, known as "the Versailles of America," was one of the largest and most exquisite estates in North America. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, one of the wealthiest Philadelphians in the early twentieth century, commissioned renowned architect Horace Trumbauer to build the one-hundred-forty-sevenroom mansion in 1916 on three hundred acres just outside Philadelphia. Whitemarsh Hall, which took five years to build at an estimated cost of $10 million with all the furnishings, was a wedding present for his second wife. This book explores Whitemarsh Hall’s construction, its heyday in the ... [Read More]
The fan-favorite creative team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti joins forces with a slew of superstar comics creators—including Neal Adams, Simon Bisley, Joseph Michael Linsner, Billy Tucci, John Timms and more—for HARLEY’S LITTLE BLACK BOOK. She’s the psychopathic psychotherapist with a heart of gold and a mind for mayhem. Now she’s uniting with the greatest heroes in the DC Universe in her very own team-up title. Ain’t it amazing?With the Joker firmly in her rearview mirror, Harley Quinn has become an antihero like no other. But sometimes she runs into threats too, uhh, threa... [Read More]
Winner, 2009 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Vernacular Architecture ForumThis pioneering study explains how one of America’s important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens. Where and how did the working poor live? How did builders and developers provide reasonably priced housing for lower-income groups during the city's growth?Having studied over 3,000 surviving alley houses in Baltimore through extensive land records and census research, Mary Ellen Hayward systematically reconstructs the lives, households, and neighborhoods that once thrived on the city's na... [Read More]
Born of Vornado's Whole Room Air Circulator heritage, the 660 represents the next generation of Vornado circulation. Immediately noticeable is the restyled exterior that features dramatic gloss and matte finishes, sleek lines, and a slightly smaller footprint than Vornado's full-size circulators. The 660 fluidly tilts between horizontal and vertical airflow positions along a chrome glide. Maintaining the 660 is simple with a detachable grill that provides easy access to the blades for cleaning. The 660 features a 5-year warranty and is supported by Vornado's industry-leading consumer service t... [Read More]
The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers, and successful executives. The rare sale of an apartment there, usually at jaw-dropping
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