+Pool on Kickstarter
If I still lived in New York, I would definitely be contributing to +Pool on Kickstarter. This would be an unbelievably awesome asset for New York (particularly Brooklyn!), and with its simple + shape (which I love), I think it would become a new design icon for the city!
The concept is simple: build a pool right in the East River that filters river water through the pool walls make it clean for swimming.
PS: +Pool, once you finish this project, I propose you come out to San Francisco and start working on a pool that floats in the Bay and heats the water as it passes through the filtration system!
The Lion
This is by no means new news, as it opened almost a year ago, but I still love the design of The Lion in New York and had to share. Owned by John de Lucie of the Waverley Inn and Mark Amadei of Delicatessen, The Lion was born for success.
Meg Sharpe, a former employee of Kelly Wearstler, designed the English hunting estate-meets-Paris salon-meets-Gentleman’s Club interiors, which are finished off with works including a Basquiat (“on loan from a friend”), a David LaChapelle portrait of Andy Warhol, prints of old “New York’s Most Wanted” photos, and antique oil portraits.
I also love this story about The Lion, via New York Social Diary:
“The space in its previous incarnation was a restaurant called Village. In the early 1960s it was a gay bar called … The Lion. It had a cabaret show in those days, and once the club’s hatcheck girl won the amateur night contest. The prize was a two week booking at … The Lion. That little girl was called Barbra Streisand.”
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