Take a peek! Jessica Chastain buys historic NYC apartment
Jessica Chastain and her fashion executive beau have bought
a turn-of-the-last-century condo across the street from Carnegie Hall
that once belonged to exalted composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
She and Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo paid $5.1 million for the light-filled four-bedroom, three-bath home.
The
duplex boasts five fireplaces, hand-carved mahogany doors and an
intricate wrought-iron staircase. It features two public rooms with
14-foot ceilings, parquet floors and over-sized bay windows with their
original Tiffany glass transoms.
The
3,200-square-foot home has a library, formal dining room, a kitchen
that was recently featured in New York magazine, and a master suite with
floor-to-ceiling fitted closets and a bathroom with a rain shower and a
deep-soaking tub.
Chastain,
who was nominated for Academy Awards for “The Help” and “Zero Dark
Thirty” and has been fêted for “A Most Violent Year,” bought the home
from Adam Guettel, the Tony-winning composer of “The Light in the
Piazza.”
Reposted from Today PopCulture
Courtesy of Zillow
Courtesy of Zillow
Courtesy of Zillow
Courtesy of Zillow
Reposted from Today PopCulture
Strange old vehicles.
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A Real-Life Central Perk
In a sixth floor of a Beijing
apartment block in China, the fictional coffee shop
where Friends Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey hung out
in the American hit TV series actually exists. Painstakingly furnished
and decorated with objects found in the show–orange couch and
all–”Central Perk” is faithful to the very last detail, even with its
own ” Chinese Gunther” manning the bar.
Found on NPR via Where on Earth
Public transport was way more fun in 1920s California:
Photograph of a Venice electric sidewalk car, ca.1920. Carrying about twenty sitting passengers, including the driver, it sits stationary on the sidewalk in front of a barbershop.
via USC libraries
The Abandoned Dixie Brewing Company, New Orleans
This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina…. Founded in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1907 and churned out its locally produced libation for nearly 100 years before its brewery was ruined by flooding and looting.
Found on Atlas Obscura.
The 1939 Pontiac Plexiglass Ghost Car
“Released at the General Motors Highways and Horizons pavilion at the 1939-40 World’s Fair in New York, the Pontiac Ghost Car was built on the chassis of a 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six using plexiglass to give the appearance of a transparent car.” The see-through sedan which cost $25,000 to build, sold at RM Auctions in 2011 for $308,000.
Found via Twister Sifter
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