Belsey & Mahla recently made a trip to Columbia County in upstate New York to meet with consultants on a project. This winter’s unusually warm weather was fully in effect with highs in the 70’s. We had a beautiful day to consider sites, orientations, and views for a new home. Below are some photographs from that day.
Belsey & Mahla recently assisted one of our clients with an interesting request: find the best way to arrange and display a collection of lemons labels that once decorated and identified the ends of the crates the fruit was shipped in. Along with the lemon labels, our client had gathered an assortment of other fruit labels and the wrappers from tin cans of staples. All of these images fit nicely in a readily available pine wood frame that evoked the wooden shipping crates. The frames were carefully hung in two grids in our client’s office in midtown Manhattan.
Fruit crate and can labels in a grid on one wall.
In one frame a can label for tomato juice and a crate label for Triton pears.
And in another frame: Isaac's Brand Early June Peas & Dawson's Favorite Tomatoes.
The lemon crate labels are arranged in another grid. Most are from the Santa Barbara area, and they are arranged on the wall in geographical order.
The view from the office isn't bad either - the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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The combination of two apartments in one of the twin-towered edifices on Central Park West is well underway. Unique to this renovation are two section changes: a step-down living room, and a curved stair connecting a suite of rooms on the floor below.
Bookcases flank the steps down to the living room.
The Gallery. Job sites are dusty and the camera flash is capturing it.
The gallery ceiling slopes upward to form a shallow tented vault.
Descending the stair. The clamps are holding the handrail while it bends to curve of the stair.
A detail of the stone tile mosaic floor in the master bathroom.
There's a big beautiful bathtub in that box.