On a recent walk up the West Side Highway I anxiously looked for a building that I had stumbled upon last Fall. It was a gorgeous Autumn day and my friend Annie and I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, through Battery Park and up the West Side Highway, when we first discovered - not this building, but a drop dead gorgeous man :) (all the single ladies). He was running in front of us - our view was suddenly much improved - too bad Annie is married - ha! As we stalked this man - oops, I meant to say, continued our journey, we were both stopped in our tracks when we saw this magnificent building. Gleaming pink fresco (actually called "Pompeii Red") with terraces and beautiful carved archways - it was my dream building! Towering high above the other buildings in the West Village just calling out for a visit - so Annie and I obliged! We first knocked on these very impressive castle-like doors and was greeted by a gentlemen who told us that these were private residences - of course they are! He did however let us into the unbelievably gorgeous lobby - a bit dark, but lovely nonetheless.
We left the building feeling über satisfied and returned to our walk when the unspeakable happened - dreamy "McJogger" was heading our way. Being the consummate flirt, I smiled and so did he - I believe Annie did too but I chose not to focus on that:). Our eyes followed him as he ran towards our new building - we both thought, what could make this more perfect is him running into our dream building - ah! He ran right by it and we kept walking - sigh.
So, last week while out with my friend Cameo - who knows everything by the way, I showed her my dream building and she of course knew all about it - "Oh, that's the Palazzo Chupi created by Julian Schnabel." She went on to tell me how much it cost and the blogger who wrote all about it. I thought Julian did the art for the film Great Expectations - WRONG! Francesco Clemente did - although Julian, an artist himself did direct one of my favorite films - Basquiat.
I can picture myself on this terrace, tossing flowers down to my fellow New Yorkers!
