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Nest of tables ("quartetto", early 1800s) Nest of tables (also known as nested tables, nesting tables) is a set of few tables with progressively smaller heights and frames, so that they can be stacked when not in use. [1] A smaller table slides inside the frame of a larger one until it engages the edge of the back frame. [2] Typically a set ...
The Eagle Warehouse & Storage Company, commonly referred to as the Eagle Warehouse, is a building in the Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights neighborhoods of Brooklyn in New York City. Designed by Brooklyn architect Frank Freeman and completed in 1894, it had a number of uses before being converted into apartments in 1980.
UrbanGlass, located on Fulton Street in the historic 1918 Strand Theatre in the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District is the New York metropolitan area's leading glass-blowing facility. [1] UrbanGlass was founded in 1977 by three artists and was originally known as the New York Experimental Glass Workshop. [2]
Stellar Style Events, a New York-based event company, leaned heavily into the bright yellow shades of early spring's blooming branches. Lemons were tucked into sculptural arrangements that evoked ...
Among those that received pressing-related patents were John P. Bakewell of Bakewell and Company; Henry Whitney and Enoch Robinson of New England Glass Company; and Phineas C. Dummer, George Dummer, and James Maxwell of the Jersey City Glass Works. A new formula for glass, developed by William Leighton Sr. at J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company ...
Thomas Scharman Buechner (pronounced BEAK-ner; September 25, 1926 – June 13, 2010) was an artist who turned to working at museums. After working for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, he became the founding director of the Corning Museum of Glass, and later director of the Brooklyn Museum, where he oversaw a major transformation in its operation and displays, before returning to Corning.
Kingsborough Houses-Kingsborough Extension, also known as Kingsborough Houses, is a 15.97-acre housing project in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. It is bordered by Ralph and Rochester Avenues, and Pacific and Bergen Streets. The project consists of 16, six-story buildings with 1,148 apartment units.
The Argosy Book Store is New York City's oldest independent bookstore.Located at 116 East 59th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues in Midtown Manhattan, it occupies an entire six-story townhouse with various sales floors specializing in first editions, Americana, leather bindings, antique maps and prints, and autographs. [1]