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NEW YORK Behind Closed Doors By Polly Devlin Photographer Annie Schlechter New York Behind Closed Doors Digital Edition 1.0 Text © 2017 by Polly Devlin Photography copyright by Annie Schlechter All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review. Gibbs Smith P.O. Box 667 Layton, Utah 84041 Orders: 1.800.835.4993 www.gibbs-smith.com ISBN: 978-1-4236-4732-4 Acknowledgments I am grateful for the constant support of the people who helped me with this book. There are many voices beneath the surface. The person to whom I owe the most is Annie Schlechter, whose unfailing enthusiasm in the face of my choice and unchoice of places never wavered; and for the unerring instinct that led her to photograph the things and scenes within those rooms that I particularly admired. We were in constant collaboration, often without consultation, and our ideas about images and layout hardly varied. Her detailed attention to design and layout has made the book what it is. I owe my patient publisher Jo Christian a debt of thanks for suggesting the subject of the book, for her support and patience with my untimely haverings and for bringing it into being. I am deeply grateful to my research assistants, I am deeply grateful to my research assistants, Judith Churchill who gave me tremendous help with calm efficiency, and Jacqueline Wasilczyk, who in spite of a full-time job, zoomed all over New York to checks facts and descriptions. I would like to thank Gail Lynch and designer Becky Clarke for their sustained and invaluable interest. I am grateful to Eve MacSweeney, Features Director, and Hamish Bowles, European Editor-at-Large, both at American Vogue; Mitchell Owens at Architectural Digest, and Allegra McEvedy and Scott Lauer for their helpful suggestions. I thank Ben Brantley for his illuminative contribution; Chris Cahill, the Executive Director at the American Irish Historical Society (in its fine building); Paula Cianci, Awards and Events Officer, Cultural Services of the French Embassy who was considerate beyond duty. Edward C. (Ted) Goodman at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University helped this complete rookie to find her way around his wonderful library. On a more practical but equally invaluable level I owe more than I can say to Judith Churchill for her hospitality while I was in New York and to Serena Bass, Susanna Moore and Susan Forristal, who were generous and companionable throughout my endeavors there. I owe Alex and Alannah Cochrane thanks for the use of their wonderful boathouse, where some of this book was written. In London I am grateful to Hannah Encke, Redha Debbah, Fiona Golfar and to the inspirational Carmen Callil, who from the conception of the book was unyielding in her opposition to the whole project and thus gave me the determination to carry on. Most of all I would like to say thank you to all the owners of these places I have written home about. They were unfailingly kind, companionable and hospitable and apparently unfazed by my endless inquisitions. I hope I have done their places justice. New York Table of Contents The Bowerbirds Incandescation A Garden In Brooklyn A Substantial World
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