Douglas Newby Insights - Page 22
Annie Leibovitz →Hermes
My last post puts NYC back on my mind, and how life in New York evolves, celebrities change, neighborhoods are reinvented or transformed, but history keeps colliding with the past. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is a legend and a talent. Here is her early studio in the meatpacking district where, among others, she photographed, entertained, and humored Mick Jagger and turned out iconic photographs. Now Hermes has taken the space. More than any other fashion or luxury company, Hermes seems the most suitable and natural in a former Annie Leibovitz studio. It fascinates me how Hermes, a family-owned business, can create and maintain not just the quality but the history and aesthetic of their offerings. While the brand itself has huge mass appeal, the artisanship, colors, design, and architecture of their work is truly admired as art. Artist Sheila Hicks talks about how materials feel in the hand. Annie Leibovitz talks about capturing the essence of person or time. Hermes captures a distinct feel, an emotion, and an aesthetic that goes beyond commercial intoxication and creates something almost aesthetically primordial. *Annie Leibovitz →Hermes
@Hermes @New_York_Hermes #Hermes #Annie Leibovitz #NewYork #Photographer #Studio #MeatpackingDistrict #Store #Retail #HermesStore #NewYorkShop #AdaptedUse #Loft #WarehouseConversion #Architecture #Design #RetailSign #Preservation #Neighborhood #NeighborhoodShop
CarlyleDeparture
This is the last day at the Carlyle for the much-loved bellman, Alfredo Tavarez. Most would agree the magic of the Carlyle is more than a beautiful historic building, splendid tradition, and the perfect location on the Upper East Side. The magic of the Carlyle Hotel in New York is the staff that has been at the hotel for decades. Here one finds staff that is professional, engaging, serious, and joyful. From the doorman’s first greeting to the bellman saying hello and helping you with your luggage, to Mabrouk, the Mayor of the Gallery, one feels like they have come home even if one is an infrequent guest. On my last trip to New York, I was told the bellman Alfredo Tavarez was retiring after 21 years. Discovering he was departing, I asked him if I could have a picture taken with him that I could post on his last day at the Carlyle. I wanted to pay a personal tribute to this quiet man with a sweet engaging smile who for 21 years was always making people happy and bringing joy to their lives. I would like to join so many others with a heartfelt thank you to Alfredo Tavarez and wish him much happiness in the future. *CarlyleDeparture
#AlfredoTavarez #Bellman #CarlyleBellman #CarlyleHotel @TheCarlyleHotel #TheCarlyle #UpperEastSide #HotelLobby #NewYork #Manhattan #HotelStaff #MagicOfCarlyle #Flowers #HistoricHotel #Design #Retirement
Cool Stone – Summer Breeze
Maybe it is the moss that begins to grow on garden stones or traces of water that collects on the uneven surfaces of stone that projects a cool journey through a garden. Dappled light and layers of plant life and trees indicate there are not any large structures close by to block the breeze or collect heat on rooftops or concrete driveways. A hot summer day almost feels refreshing in a garden along a cool stone path. *Cool Stone – Summer Breeze
#StonePath #Stone #LandscapeArchitecture #LandscapeDesign #SwissAvenueHome #Dallas #Neighborhood #UrbanNeighborhood #Plants #Garden #Breeze #Summer #dallasneighborhoods
Sky + Trees = Pool
Aqua is the aquatic color of the sea, or the color reflected in the pool of the famous clear blue Dallas skies and lush green trees of the city. There is something very elegant when a lawn comes up to the side of a pool and the canopy of trees is pushed to the perimeter. This creates the perfect effect of sun and shade. If one is not at the sea during the summer, why not an older neighborhood in Dallas. Here is an example of the good life. *Sky + Trees = Pool
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SMU Heroes Honor Ben
SMU has been the launching pad for many in Dallas including these SMU heroes who gathered to honor Ben Malcolmson at an impressive well attended book signing of his dynamic, thrilling book Walk On, with a foreward by Coach Pete Carroll. Chuck Hixson was an SMU quarterback that put SMU on the map for many potential SMU students across the country. His passing records stood for almost 50 years. He continues to contribute to Dallas in a monumental way as a principal of Westdale Management that is transforming Deep Ellum. Chuck Dannis also played football at SMU and is synonymous with real estate appraisals. He just received the lifetime achievement award from the Commercial Association of Real Estate Professionals. Ken Malcolmson, a business leader, has chaired, participated, or has been president of the most important Dallas civic organization, and is past president of the SMU Alumni Association. He is also the father of Ben Malcolmson. It is fun to see a group I have admired since I was at school now convene to honor a young man I have also very much admired for many years. *SMU Heroes Honor Ben
#SMU #BookSigning #WalkOn #Hero #SMUHeroes #Dallas #Book #SummerReading #Triumph @BenMalcolmson #BenMalcolmson #ChuckHixsonSMU @ChuckDannis #ChuckDannis #KenMalcolmson @StaceyMalcolmson #HighlandPark #Hinsdale
Declining Debutante
A debutante never ages—well maybe a little—but always with grace, authority, and elegance. Virtually every shiny, new, aspirational apartment eventually suffers a rough decline. Even fashionable apartments meet their demise. The Debutante Apartments at one time were probably as stylish and glamorous as those on Gaston Avenue geared towards stewardesses, models, and young professionals, but in less than 15 years became weekly rentals and flophouses. New Urbanists,’ planners,’ and city officials’ love affair with density, apartment zoning and the short-term glamor of new apartments should always remember the Debutante. *Declining Debutante
#Debutantes #Apartment #Apartments #Density #Urbanist #NewUrbanist #ApartmentZoning #SingleFamilyZoning #Dallas #AffordableHousing #UrbanLiving #Dallas #Neighborhood #DallasNeighborhoods #DelayedGentrification #Architecture #Architect #oldeastdallas
Diverse Housing → Apartments
Dallas housing officials, urbanists, and politicians have a love affair with apartments and increased density. Their talking point is that more apartments provide more affordable housing. “More density” has become the avant-garde mantra of the housing and planning cartel. In fact, zoning that is higher than the existing housing stock already built eliminates affordable housing in the area. Overzoning in a neighborhood also eliminates diversity of housing. When the 100 block of Old East Dallas was first being considered to be rezoned from multifamily zoning to single-family zoning, the opposition did not come from the developer mayor, or even apartment owners. The opposition to single-family rezoning came from well-intentioned people including those in the Park Cities and North Dallas concerned about gentrification. Single-family zoning was also opposed by the nationally renowned Dallas city planners and liberal neighborhood advocates, saying multifamily zoning was critical for the success of mass transportation and affordable housing. This single-family rezoning was enacted and there is still a diversity of housing in place from small one-story bungalows to historic duplexes, quadplexes, and 1960s two-story garden style apartments. Just a block over from the historic districts in the single-family zoned area are new massive three- and four-story apartment complexes being built. Each new large apartment complex eliminates another modest structure that a lower-income homebuyer might purchase or even rent. They need to remember new apartments are always expensive. They always have been and always will be. *Diverse Housing → Apartments
#Gentrification #Density #DensityDestroysNeighborhoods #DensityDestroysDiverseHousing #OldEastDallas #HistoricDistrict #SingleFamilyZoning #OverZoning #Dallas #DiverseHousing #Apartments #Bungalows #OlderApartments #OlderHomes #InexpensiveHousing
East Lawther Home
Many are familiar with the several-acre estate lots on West Lawther. How many are aware of the home along East Lawther and Arboretum Point? On my thousands of bike rides around White Rock Lake, I noticed the land, the lake, the trees, the meadow, the hill, but never really noticed the home on Arboretum Point that overlooks all of this. This shot from the backyard of the Arboretum Point home is tucked back into nature. It is a home that can enjoy nature and the broad views of White Rock Lake from its gardens, porches, and interior spaces. *East Lawther Home
#EastLawther #WhiteRockLakeHome #WhiteRockLake #ArboretumPoint #Landscape #Architect #Architecture #Dallas #Neighborhood #DallasNeighborhood #EmeraldIsleDallas #WhiteRockLakePark #WinfreyPoint #UrbanLake #UrbanNature #UrbanNeighborhood #Backyard #PathToSMU #PathToTrinityGroves
Screen Porch
Summer is here! What better place to spend it in Dallas than on a screen porch enjoying the cool breezes that are further filtered by the meadows and trees that surround the lake. On a hot summer day in the city it is easy to forget you can find a wonderful cool green oasis in Dallas. The very savvy and fortunate homebuyers found a site in Dallas where they can still enjoy the city when they are not traveling in the summer. A screen porch is almost summer magic. *Screen Porch
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Rolling Land to Lake
As seen from this porch, here is my favorite stretch of White Rock Lake to ride my bike. Wind is at my back, there is a slight slope in my favor, the lake is on one side and the meadow, park, and Arboretum is on the other side of the bike trail. One does not even notice this single home on Arboretum Point with balconies and porches overlooking Winfrey Point, the Park, and White Rock Lake. This White Rock Lake home is such a good example of how it is not important how much land your home is on, but what it is next to or across from. Here, the home is on a half acre but it looks across 1,000 acres of lake and park. *Rolling Land to Lake
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