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New York’s newest public park floats above the Hudson River, the Serpentine Gallery names the designer for next year’s pavilion, and
HD’s annual hotels issue is now out. All that and more in this week’s Five on Friday.
Theaster Gates to design 2022 Serpentine Pavilion
Photo by Victoria Pickering/Flickr
Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates has been named the designer of London’s 2022 Serpentine Pavilion. With a background in urban planning, Gates will be the first pavilion designer who is not an architect,
Last summer, Midtown brasserie Quality Bistro cobbled together a row of sun-shaded tables and chairs on the sidewalk along West 55th Street, called it an outdoor patio, and launched open-air dining for the first time. Come winter, sturdy, white tents were erected over the tables and chairs, chandeliers were hung, a checkerboard floor was laid over the sidewalk, some potted plants were added in the corners, and the outdoor patio transformed into a heated outdoor winter garden.
Now, in a third level-up that is “really bonkers,” as co-founder Michael Stillman puts it, the company installed a row of 14 private cabins covered in greenery in front of the restaurant, to add onto the tents, wooden benches and shaded tables for two lining the curb.
Gold Key – Restaurant Fine Dining
The Highlights: Following in the footsteps of sister projects Quality Meats and Quality Italian, the design for Quality Bistro is based on an imaginary character and their home. Quality Bistro uses the French countryside as its point of departure, capturing the spirit of a fictionalized Belle Époque era hotel but caught in the 1970s, overrun by the outside gardens and gilded with mirrored walls and opaline chandeliers throughout. The restaurant trumpets all manner of fowl, with birds in framed scenes or painted throughout directly on the wood columns, tiled walls, and caned panels.
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Architecture Firm: Beyond Arch, New York |
Festive and full of good cheer, these warm drinks will bring comfort to cold nights ahead.
The Winter and Smoke combines Scotch whisky and Lapsang Souchong leaf tea.Credit.Winnie Au for The New York Times
Published Dec. 26, 2020Updated Dec. 28, 2020
There’s nothing like sitting bundled up outdoors around a firepit, or even indoors to escape the chill, with a hot drink to warm the hands, body and mood. Like a Southside in summer, warm cocktails and other drinks want winter. There are classics, like glühwein, Irish coffee and Tom and Jerry, or you can always toss a shot of brandy into a cup of hot chocolate or tea.