The Pepsi-Cola Building, designed by Natalie de Blois and Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, 1960
For the landmark preservation report, click here.
Denizens of Manhattan and an interior frieze by Constantino Nivola—ownership of the building went to Olivetti in 1967—pictured Here, the Olivetti Showroom in New York (different building) in 1954:
Gorgeous:
I’m drooling . . .
Me too! One of my favorite architectural styles…
I don’t remember much about the building but the word Pepsi reminded me of the beautiful gardens at the PepsiCo world headquarters in Purchase, New York http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_M._Kendall_Sculpture_Gardens
Whoa! What fizzy sugar water can buy! If I wandered outside my office (read: nook in the back of my house) to see a Calder I might faint.
Indeed!
Last pic in my imagination could be from a period Bond movie.
The designer would have been Ken Adam, and you are spot on!
Mmmmmmm…. men in hats!
Okay, Ms. Marcheline—
What is it about a guy in a well tailored suit? 😉