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Albertine Books
Albertine Books is a bookstore in Manhattan, New York. Opened in 2014, it offers the largest collection in the United States of French-language books and translations from French into English. It is located in the Payne Whitney House at 972 Fifth Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets. In addition to its bookstore and reading room, Albertine Books hosts frequent public events and organizes French Book Corners in a network of independent bookstores throughout the United States. Payne Whitney House Albertine Books is in the landmark Payne Whitney House that now also houses the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France, Washington, D.C. The high Italian Renaissance building was designed by Stanford White. The French government purchased the building in 1952, at the initiative of structural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. History The bookstore and reading room of Albertine Books were opened to the public in September 2014, with over 14,000 titles from 30 French-speaking c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Kid Exploring The Albertine Books In The Cultural Services Of The French Embassy
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The NoMad
The NoMad was an integrated hotel and restaurant owned by the Sydell Group and located in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The restaurant of the same name was conceived by chef Daniel Humm and restaurateur Will Guidara of nearby Eleven Madison Park. The hotel was sometimes referred to as NoMad New York to differentiate from its sister locations in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The building is a contributing property to the Madison Square North Historic District, a New York City Landmark. The hotel was conceived by Andrew Zobler, Founder and CEO of the Sydell Group. The building has 12 floors and a Beaux-Arts facade. The interior was designed by French architect Jacques Garcia, inspired by the Parisian apartment of his youth. It was named after the relatively new NoMad neighborhood during a period of popularity. The hotel closed permanently in March 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Hotel The hotel had a rooftop private dining space with outdoor seating. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookstores In Manhattan
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. History In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade. The spread of Christianity naturally created a great demand for copies of the Gospels, other sacred books, and later on for missals and other devotional volumes for both church and private use. The modern system of bookselling dates from soon after the introduction of printing. In the course of the 16th and 17th centuries the Low Countries for a time became the chief centre of the bookselling world. Modern book selling has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet. Major websites such as Amazon, eBay, and other big b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Politics And Prose
Politics and Prose (sometimes stylized as Politics & Prose or abbreviated as P&P) is an independent bookstore located in Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C., on Connecticut Avenue. It was founded in 1984 by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade. They expanded it fivefold to its present size. After a failed sale attempt in 2005, they sold it to Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine in 2011. Its author events attract famous speakers, such as Bill Clinton and J.K. Rowling. History Founding and growth Carla Cohen, after losing her job with the Carter administration, decided to create an independent bookstore in Washington, D.C., despite having no previous experience with running a business. She partnered with Barbara Meade, whom she found through the classifieds, and who, with her previous experience of managing a bookstore, became a co-owner early on. Cohen decided to name the store Politics and Prose because it was "Washington-sounding" and not pretentious, and the two co-owners founded the sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Soup
Book Soup is an independent bookstore located at 8818 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, and is the largest general interest independent bookstore in Hollywood. The store is "known for its tall, teetering stacks and mazes of shelves crammed with titles that attracted entertainment and tourist industry clientele..." Popular with many in the entertainment industry, the store continues to hosts events featuring a variety of celebrity authors who have so far included Muhammad Ali, Howard Stern, Annie Leibovitz, Chuck Palahniuk, Jenna Jameson, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, and The Doors.Alimurung, Gendy. "The Host and His Protégée." ''.'' May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seminary Co-op
Seminary Cooperative Bookstores, Inc., founded in 1961, is a not-for-profit bookstore with two branches in Chicago. Its flagship, known colloquially as the Seminary Co-op or simply the Sem Co-op, is located at 5751 S. Woodlawn Avenue. Prior to October 2012, it was located a block away in the basement of the Chicago Theological Seminary, next to the campus of the University of Chicago, and stocked the largest selection of academic volumes in the United States throughout an extensive maze of shelves. The Co-op also operates 57th Street Books, also in the Hyde Park neighborhood, which houses a carefully curated collection of general interest titles, including kids' books, science fiction, mysteries and cookbooks. The Co-op's reputation was so great that Columbia University invited manager Jack Cella to either open a branch in New York City or leave and open a new store there. Until the university gained its own neighborhood academic bookstore in the late 1990s, many Columbia schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Bookstore (Cobble Hill)
Community Bookstore was a bookstore in the Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It opened in 1974 in Brooklyn Heights and moved to Cobble Hill after its rent spiked in 1985. Owner John Scioli operated it until retiring and closing the store in 2016. It was known as an atypical crowded bookstore filled to capacity with stacks of books accumulated via community donations. Description The store's space was known for being filled with stacks of books to the point of posing a challenge to shoppers. The ''Wall Street Journal'' characterized it as a place where "books are stacked floor-to-ceiling" and "shelves filled with books rise above a floor piled waist-high with seemingly endless volumes. Underfoot, between paperbacks, worn carpeting can occasionally be glimpsed." ''The New York Times'' said that it's "not the kind of place one goes for the latest best sellers, literary magazines, a coffee or an author talk [but rather] a place to rummage and rumi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commerce, commercial buildings covering between 48th Street (Manhattan), 48th Street and 51st Street (Manhattan), 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The 14 original Art Deco buildings, commissioned by the Rockefeller family, span the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Sixth Avenue, split by a large sunken square and a private street called Rockefeller Plaza. Later additions include 75 Rockefeller Plaza across 51st Street at the north end of Rockefeller Plaza, and four International Style (architecture), International Style buildings on the west side of Sixth Avenue. In 1928, the site's then-owner, Columbia University, leased the land to John D. Rockefeller Jr., who was the main person behind the complex's construction. Originally envisioned as the site for a new Metropolitan Opera building, the current Rockefeller Center came about after the Met could not afford to move to the proposed new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Librairie De France
Librairie de France was a famous French bookstore at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The store, located at 610 Fifth Avenue on Rockefeller Center Promenade, was opened in 1935 by Isaac Molho, though the company itself was founded in 1928. Molho had studied in Athens at a French school and come to the United States in 1928, but before leaving Europe, become acquainted with officials from Paris' Hachette publisher. The Rockefeller family The Rockefeller family () is an American industrial, political, and banking family that owns one of the world's largest fortunes. The fortune was made in the American petroleum industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by brothe ... were eager for some retail space in the new center to be filled by Europeans, and invited Molho to open shop as one of its first tenants. The store closed on September 30, 2009 as a result of a spike in its annual rent from $360,000 to $1,000,000. The store continues to operate as a mail-orde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château Du Champ De Bataille
The Château du Champ-de-Bataille, is a château located in the Eure department of the French region of Upper Normandy. It's a Baroque castle lying between the communes of Neubourg and Sainte-Opportune-du-Bosc, and in the ''Campagne du Neubourg'', between the river Risle to the west and the river Iton to the east. It was built in the 17th century for the Maréchal de Créqui. History In 1650 Alexandre de Créquy-Bernieulle (1628–1703) was arrested and exiled to the province by Cardinal Mazarin. He built the Château du Champ-de-Bataille between 1653 and 1665. After the Arrest the Château was the home of the family "de Merendonque". During the French Revolution, the Château was stormed and the furniture was sold throughout France. (french) The Gardens The French formal garden was created from 1992 by a new owner, interior designer Jacques Garcia. It was inspired by sketches of the original garden, long vanished, which showed the placement of the great terrace, the broder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payne Whitney House
The Payne Whitney House is a historic building at 972 Fifth Avenue, south of 79th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in the High Italian Renaissance style by architect Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White. Completed in 1909 as a private residence for businessman William Payne Whitney and his family, the building has housed the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States since 1952. The house has a five-story-tall gray-granite facade that is curved slightly outward. Each story is horizontally separated by an entablature. The interiors of the Payne Whitney mansion were designed in 16th- and 17th-century Renaissance styles. The first floor includes a rotunda that was decorated with an artwork attributed to Michelangelo, as well as the Venetian Room, a reception room that William Payne Whitney's wife Helen Hay Whitney particularly valued. Since 2014, the second and third stories have housed a French-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Garcia
Jacques Garcia, (born 25 September 1947) is a French architect, interior designer and garden designer, best known for his contemporary interiors of Paris hotels and restaurants. Biography Born in 1947, Jacques Garcia showed a talent for drawing and objects of art at a young age. At the age of eight, he constructed and furnished his first structure at the home of grandparents. Thereafter he attended a school of interior design and completed his education in the applied arts. When he finished his education, he began working for a firm of contemporary architects, and created the concepts for the interiors of the Tour Montparnasse in Paris, Le Méridien hotels, and the Royal Monceau à Paris. He was also the interior architect for the Hôtel Costes and Costes restaurants, the Hotel Majestic, and the restaurant Fouquet's. In 2006, he redecorated the Hôtel Odéon Saint Germain in Paris., He purchased and restored the Château du Champ-de-Bataille in Normandy and undertook to rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
