“ situate on the twenty-fifth storey , the open tune Terrace Lounge represents the altitude of urban elegance [ … ] richly above the canyons of Wall Street . ” Reading the promotional captions of Manhattan ’s fresh luxury condominium—20 Pine Street — makes me want to puke .
Watching the picture — a nauseating catalog of pattern furniture on the face of it designed to rate Macbook Airs and iPads with cocaine traces — further increase the sensation . Sure it ’s comfortably pretty , certain it ’s deluxe , sure there ’s fancy collateral lighting everywhere so you could pretend your single - dish up neighbour do n’t exist , but it has the personality of an Ikea catalog and a Bed , Bath & Beyond wedding list . Combined . Except their furniture looks made with tropical woods and comes already assembled .
The dress shop flat are located in the former Morgan Guaranty Trust building , which subsequently became Chase Manhattan Bank ’s headquarters . It ’s one of the architectural colossus of the financial territorial dominion , a gigantic beehive with the personality of a Soviet shoe , sit on a place with less life history than the Mojave desert apartment . It ’s Albert Speer ’s wet pipe dream with Ibiza chill - out music dally on the speakers instead of Dr. Goebbels ’ favourite Wagner pieces . It ’s also the place where a dud irrupt in September 16 , 1920 , killing 33 and injuring 400 .
All this to say : who has $ 1 million to spare ? You love my mail . [ 20 PineviaFancy ]
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